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salakotoluon Launch HN: Financial Choice (YC S21) – Checking accounts with market returns

I do agree that this should be positioned as a brokerage account with a debit/credit card for spending.

salakotoluon Launch HN: Financial Choice (YC S21) – Checking accounts with market returns

wow. what a comment. I think there's a place for this product. sure it's not for everyone, but modern investing apps are already erasing the lines between risk on and risk off money.

https://tolusnotes.com/the-true-cost-of-fdic-stability-broke...

salakotoluon Is This Public? (Or Why I’m Leaving TradFi for Crypto) – Mirror

> as someone who works in crypto and is a very literal crypto rent seeker

What do you do? If you don't mind sharing.

salakotoluon Innovation Is Inherently Controversial

You're not alone. I've also spent some time trying to understand the game ARK is playing. I wrote about it last week: https://tolusnotes.com/understanding-what-ark-invest-is-up-t...

salakotoluon Afraid to Google a thing because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it

Personalized feeds are broken. I think there's work to be done to improve content discovery.

salakotoluon Workers fear returning to work – many are resisting the call

> People could, for instance, get tested each morning, and be required to present their daily test results upon arriving at work

I don't think test turnaround time is this quick in the U.S.

salakotoluon Workers fear returning to work – many are resisting the call

This. I doubt the human capital required would make any financial sense for many companies. Digital contact tracing, on the other hand, is also a bust.

I wrote a 10 min post on it - https://tolusnotes.com/state-of-digital-contact-tracing-in-t...

salakotoluon Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation

The app failed to gain significant adoption. I believe it no longer trace's contacts.

salakotoluon Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation

It has fallen off because most states have decided not to use an app. The exposure notification itself can only be leveraged by government/health officials.

I released a blog post (10min read) this past weekend breaking down digital contact tracing in the U.S. I also discussed why Google and Apple's solution isn't sufficient.

https://tolusnotes.com/state-of-digital-contact-tracing-in-t...

salakotoluon Show HN: A place for your referral links

Currently, only DigitalOcean, Linode and vultr links are support. Created a trello to track public interest for more links.

https://trello.com/b/umE6JH0U/reaffiliate.

salakotoluon Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters

When can I play this?

salakotoluon Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder

Was just reading about this today. Didn't know it was new.

salakotoluon Ask HN: What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer?

Completing and releasing a project thats larger than all my previous projects.

salakotoluon Introducing React Navigation for React Native

Right on time. Will check this out.