telomero22's comments

Yes, that is mostly because your education happened in a 3rd world country, where education standards are quite low. People will be upset by me saying this, but that's how it is and everybody knows it.

However, you already have very good base knowledge and you know how to adapt to new technologies. You don't need more programming experience, but as you have already noticed, you need in-depth computer science knowledge.

A bootcamp is definitely an excellent choice and will teach you more than your degree. You should try to find a camp nearby, so that you are there physically and get to know other coders. Being able to solve problems with peers is invaluable. If you don't have a good offering nearby, definitely do online courses like on Khanacademy.

If you spend a year on CS principles it will be very, very helpful.

Ah yes, protein shakes are working wonders for that.

Especially in the afternoons, the craving for something sweet is the strongest. A protein shake completely satisifies hunger until dinner very well.

That way, you can have lunch, protein shake and dinner to get through the day very well and not binge on sweets.

Your body craves carbohydrates, it's like an addiction. Overcoming that addition is all about training your willpower and delayed gratification.

It's the same as smoking. Strong willed people can stop smoking in a heartbeat. Weak minded people cannot, their minds are simply too weak to resist smoking and they need it every 2 hours. Same with eating.

Next time you feel that hunger feeling, out of spite just don't eat and the craving goes away within 1-2 hours and you'll get long term endorphins instead that make you feel good for your mind being stronger than that craving. It's not so hard, you just have to be a bit stronger than that desire.

You can also try fasting. Just don't eat for 24h and you'll feel a lot better than if you ate.

Some people simply cannot delay gratification, they need to be on their phone, watch tv constantly to get their dopamine hit. However, other people are able to delay gratification and get a much larger amount of endorphins and also the better ones.

It should become a habit to receive your dopamine hits from resisting the temptation and being stronger than this degenerate craving for unhealthy, processed food carefully designed to make the population addicted to their produce to buy more and more and eat more, so that they make more money.

There is a way to get out of this easily, don't eat any more sugar and carbohydrates, but plants and meat, which is the keto diet. It's very healthy and natural as well. You'll drop a lot of weight and you can still eat well.

It's because in poor and conservative countries women must choose a high paying job if they want to escape oppression and arranged marriage.

However, the more egalitarian and wealthy a country is, the more women are free to choose which job they like most and they are not so interested in Engineering it seems.

EDIT: Ha, looks like this is just a Jordan Peterson false claim. Women seem to be strongly represented in science and engineering in developed countries. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/women-in-science/

Yes, 90% by number transactions. Binance chain, Solana, Luna, AVAX, ADA, DOT are doing around 15 million transactions a day altogether while Bitcoin and Ethereum are only doing 1.5 million altogether.

However, is that so bad?

This way, American universities have large amounts of funds available to provide the best education, best facilities, hire the best professors and that's why America simply has the best universities worldwide and it is paid by their students?

It also mostly only paid by students who can afford it. Students from weaker social backgrounds only have to pay a small fraction of the normal tuition fees.

As well, 77% of people with student loans have less than $40,000 in debt and 57% have below $20,000 in debt. $20,000 can be paid off within 2 years with a normal graduate job if one wants to pay them off early.

Source from 2019: https://i2.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

That's really irrelevant in 2022, since 90% of blockchains are not Proof of Work anymore.

What kind of example is this?

Try that with a credit card transaction and you'll get kicked out for ordering 5 beers and only trying to pay 1. :D

You can start a science twitter, tweet every thought, every interesting fact you have found and you'll build a following and get your insights vetted, confirmed or refuted by the crowd. A very powerful way to increase your knowledge and accuracy.

Why is HN interpreting all the worst possible character traits for someone who explains how they like to work?

Is it because of the word manual? It sounds like a very emotional interpretation of the piece without trying to understand its goal at all.

Yes it's very valuable for a big player.

This is actually a very valuable resource, similar to https://www.rxlist.com/

Can you apply that to all kinds of medication, is this is a lot of more work or can you plug it in or let a student do the data entry?

It will take a while to gain traction, but if you go to conferences, add more kinds of medications, establish a brand and gain reputation, this could be very successful. The contribution to modern medicine is invaluable.

How many big kinds of medications are there? For the Top20 most common cancers, IBS, Neuropathy, acne, MS, heart disease, hypertension, arthritis and you've got most of the big ones covered. You can also add beauty treatments such as hair loss, skin rejuvenation and you are already in the beauty sector with much lower barriers to entry.

Might be a couple of months of data entry but then you would have this invaluable neural net no?

I wouldn't work on this full-time, but sending out emails here and there, developing it further here and there could be quite fruitful with a very good time spent/impact ratio.

Here are just some of the use cases

1. 100x cheaper, faster cross-border transfers

2. Immutable, digital, accessible, secure ownership of music, video, real-estate, cars, gaming assets, health data

3. Instant access to nearly all possible financial products (loans, lending, startup investments etc.) without a middle man

There are many, many more use cases. Crypto drastically increases accountability, transparency, accessibility, trustworthiness for every kind of use case.

It seems like you are creating a lot of straw men to not see that, for example an impossible standard such as saying not all of crypto is 100% decentralized, so it's centralized, which just makes no sense and is a very strong logical fallacy.

That's not correct.

It only takes a couple of seconds to shut down a reactor. https://qr.ae/pGdkkv

Here is what I would tell you.

Only build things that only take 1 month to build. If it takes longer, you're doing it wrong. An MVP should only take 1 month to build, if it's longer, it's not an MVP, but a convoluted, unrefined idea of what you had in mind.

For example, if you have been building something very complex for 2 years on your own, you've done something very wrong. No successful entrepreneur builds something for 2 years alone, they have a team and even those that have a team launch it after a couple of months. It's very rare that an experienced entrepreneur builds something for years before they launch.

It's also not expensive. Any software engineer in the Western world can pay a competent team of 3 overseas developers, but for some they want to prove themselves that they are successful on their own. That's the wrong way to go about it.

There are numerous other ways to sell your bitcoin, p2p exchanges, pay online via bitcoin, OTC and 20 other ways.

Gold is very traceable, because it leaves a trail of people behind. It's very heard to disconnect your identity from your gold sale, because you have to make that sale in person, so there are always witnesses, cameras, paper trails.

If you want to put in a middle man, you also need to know him to trust him not to run away with the gold and he becomes a liability, because he knows your identity.

That's why this is the maximum fungability you get, be it with bitcoin or gold, none of the two have the upper hand here.

Ok, but you have the same thing with gold or any other "fungible" asset that will be traced to you if you don't take measures to obfuscate the trace.

Gold has a real world trace that can be found out by simply asking intermediaries and numerous other means, Bitcoin has a digital trace, it's not that different.

It's very difficult to make sure that the history of where that gold you got came from and to whom you sold it to is 100% erased.