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scared2··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
These kinds of acquisitions intrigue me. what is valuation crieteria? from technical and innovation perspective, what part of it is worth millions?
scared2··on Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
These kinds of acquisitions intrigue me. what is valuation crieteria?

from technical and innovation perspective, what part of it is worth millions?

scared2··on A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
In High school?
scared2··on Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
How big was it, and did you write it?
scared2··on NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps
Contact not contract
scared2··on Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
500gb is too big, any information about the content?
scared2··on Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
In this sense "hacked" doesn't make sense. 8f everything was intended for open source.
scared2··on Ask HN: Could Google create a Covid-19 risk score for locations?
That's brilliant but very tough to implement from legal perspective.
scared2··on Building a patient monitoring system with Go and Vue in 3 days
Very nice. But one question, what other languages do you know at a level of competence comparable to go?
scared2··on Redundancy in Programming Languages
Why do you this authors of these programming languages try to creat a different set of keyword names and syntax. If google liked python why not follow the already familiarpython syntax to create go?
scared2··on Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
Have you tried consulting gig?
scared2··on The Bitcoin Halving, Explained
I wouldn't call it Ponzi scheme. But I totally agree that it is an algorithm built to mimic scarcity and deflation.
scared2··on Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
I think it is usable enough. Specially if you worry about privacy this is a good tool. A thing most people don't like about Trello is that it is not encrypted on the server side.
scared2··on Show HN: GrantProxy, Chrome extension that turns browser into a magic HTTP proxy
This really is promising. Well done. The biggest problem will be scalability bottleneck
scared2··on Ask HN: What opportunities will Covid-19 create?
I expect a lot of research fund in areas related to epidemic
scared2··on Chloroquine trial halted after 11 patients die on high dose
Let's put Paw's law to rest.

Anyone who finished highschool should un Know that the two are different chemicals. The first has hydroxy the second doesn't.

As a side note: a quick google search indicates that the one with hydroxy is an improvement and is less toxic and brings less side effects.

scared2··on Chloroquine trial halted after 11 patients die on high dose
I am not a doctor but according to the US president's press briefing both words can be used interchangeably (link above).
scared2··on Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
I totally agree, writing scrapers doesn't necessarily make one a talented engineer. You may often find it easier to write a scrapers than going through the API documentation or series of authentication procedures.
scared2··on Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
I don't think this program actually solved the 3,200 limit you mentioned, not sure though.
scared2··on Chloroquine trial halted after 11 patients die on high dose
Super interesting. It seems that everything is premeditated.
scared2··on The relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem [pdf]
However in this paper the authors tried to show is it's stability over time. So overall their "findings" indicate ip addresses should not be overlooked in privacy protection.s they stated as follows:

"... Over time, a same device communicates with our server using a set of distinct IP addresses, but we find that devices reuse some of their previous IP addresses for long periods of time. We call this IP address retention."

scared2··on As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting
Totally expected. I was actually expecting that this pandemic would be a test to the current business model of the internet.

Business closed means no need to advertise, no ads means no need to turn on servers... But apparently it seems to be ok so far.

scared2··on Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
Or they don't know how to effectively use the API, maybe.
scared2··on Why it’s so hard to make a good Covid-19 model
It's novelty. Basically all models are based on assumptions in closed system. As one gets more information they add it to the closed system eventually making it easier to predict. As we know reality is extremely heterogeneous and an open system with too many interactions. This in principle makes all practically wrong. But it does not mean that they are not useful. (At least they are useful to make scary graphs that convince presidents).

I had a lame model that is currently predicting lower death rate but in a similar trend [1]. In this model my assumption is the lockdown to continue for 45 days. The result which I regret to have seen shows a scary number of 600k deaths after 39 days. So I'm hoping for something spectacular to happen such as vaccine, a drug, the sun etc that I would use to change my prediction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22814927

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