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tango24··on Creationism and conspiracism share a common teleological bias
And it’s not much of a stretch. If we assume that an intelligent being can create both TIME and a rapidly expanding UNIVERSE, both of which we don’t fully understand, is it really that “fringe” for some to believe that our perception of “time” doesn't necessarily have to start at zero?
tango24··on Uber reportedly lost $891M in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows
> now I get to travel to work without buying a $60k vehicle.

Why on earth do you need a $60k vehicle? That’s exorbitant if you’re just trying to “get to work”. 60k is a luxury joy ride, not a commuter beater.

tango24··on Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
The definition of “host”, in this case, just means “many”.
tango24··on RubyKube Free Open-Source Crypto Platform
FYI— this is about some forked cryptocurrency platform, not the “crypto” many people would expect.
tango24··on U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Against Ross Ulbricht
What two issues (of the 200 you mentioned) do you expect his council to argue? Why do you anticipate he will win?
tango24··on Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js
Whoa, this is really cool! My wife knows sign language and I showed her this and she was impressed, and had so many questions about how it worked =) I love the innovation — Thanks for sharing!
tango24··on Goldman Sachs says the price of Bitcoin is never coming back
It’s been discussed here before that 9 of 10 venture capital investments fail, and so you should make 10 potential big bets to make up for the losses. So Poloneix could be one of those 9. Why do you assume there are assurances?
tango24··on Goldman Sachs says the price of Bitcoin is never coming back
Why would there be another Christmas rush?
tango24··on Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales
I would wager that anything in a range 10%-50% of missing revenue, for a publicly traded company, would be caught by external auditor. And I’d im not mistaken, external auditors are required. If I’m wrong on either of those accounts, then I’d be seriously concerned about our stock market.
tango24··on Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
Not sure what you mean here? Your comment seems to support the OP’s premise.
tango24··on Planet Money on Bay Area Housing Costs
Then, according to your previous logic in other comments, they should move somewhere else.
tango24··on Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
Agreed. Let’s say if I earned $200K/yr, and was close to “retirement”. I’d consider working an extra year to take a 90 min orbit in space. I would not make that same decision for a 3 min joy ride.
tango24··on Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage
Hmm, this comment says it’s been happening for hours (below). Maybe their status page isn’t accurate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552693

tango24··on Bulletproofs – Short zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge
That’s not what OP was referring to. OP was saying the hole still reveals a little information (Waldo’s Size/shape/posture) to the opponent.
tango24··on Walt Disney Animation Studios Datasets
Thanks for providing that context. It really sets the scene on why Disney decided to do this, and it’s peaked my interest. Didn’t realize how challenging this was..
tango24··on A Child’s Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes
I, for one, appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time to publish!
tango24··on SEC Names Valerie A. Szczepanik Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation
> Ms. Szczepanik joined the SEC in 1997 and most recently served as an Assistant Director in the Division of Enforcement’s Cyber Unit. She is the Head of the SEC’s Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group, Co-Head of its Dark Web Working Group, and a member of its FinTech Working Group. Ms. Szczepanik received her J.D. from Georgetown Law and her B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sounds like an exceptional woman. Would love to hear her speak on these topics.

tango24··on IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
What changed?
tango24··on The best open source tools for automating your crypto trading strategies
No, you should not.
tango24··on I.R.S. Warns States Not to Circumvent State and Local Tax Cap
Wait, property and state taxes are already deductible on federal 1040, right? So why are the states even doing this? The article is paywalled so surely I’m missing some info here.
tango24··on Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
Are you a finance law attorney? This is marketed as a financial protocol. Completely different than HTTP.
tango24··on Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
> namely, the emerging class of crypto-collectibles such as CryptoKitties.

You can’t honestly be serious about this. Please get outside the Silicon Valley bubble and look around.

tango24··on The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge
Couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately however, my Masters degree was renamed from Information Assurance to Cybersecurity half-way through my program, so I have one instance of the word “cyber” on my resume, despite the eye-roll it gives me. The rest of my experience speaks for itself though.
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