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I saw a picture a couple of weeks ago about a person on Twitter who lost around 90% of his followers because they were bots. He complained that he had spent the last +7 years building up this "community", which in the end consisted of bots.

As late yesterday I saw two youtube shorts videos using deep fakes models of celebrities pushing crypto Ponzi schemes. I wonder how widespread bot usage is, and their connection to "echo chambers" that seem to echo louder and louder into mainstream media.

Have you experienced a caveat in terms of coding quality? I study mathematics, and I think it is pretty standard for mathematicians to disregard theoretical run times when experimenting and doing "napkin" computations. Invariably this leads to relatively poor code quality. Speaking from experience, I just failed a coding interview because I solved the question like a mathematician would do, i.e. a quick and dirty way. What is your experience with this phenomenon? I know academics often gets railed lacking concepts in data structures etc.

* assuming you have a pagan slave population which can be worked to death in order to provide for the intelligentsia utopia fantasy

Crypto currencies (or atleast DeFI) is trying to solve a pretty pragmatic problem: There is 1.7B unbanked people in the world and banking services are outdated and unavailable for large portion of humankind.

I mean that is pretty good problem to work on IMO. I think articles like this that talk about monetary politics are missing the point a bit.

I live in Denmark, and even then it takes approx ~10-24 hours to transfer funds between banks, imagine if we could reduce that time to mere seconds- or minutes?

"The president of the Ford Foundation, Mr. Walker, said in an email that he had confidence in Ozy. “We need new media companies to challenge the status quo, shake things up, and go deep on the issues that matter most,” he said. “In an increasingly diverse world, it’s no coincidence that a company with co-founders of Black and Indian descent would be so successful.” Remember this is the sort person investing capital nowadays..

Why not just train on your codebase/IDE? The best practice you can get is by actually using vim when developing. I do not see a need to go "practice" on a website.

I built an online flashcard platform (memordo.com) which support live-rendering of latex and codeblocks, and custom study/repetition schedules. Memordo has totally replaced Anki for me, which is nice to build something you actually prefer to use.

One point as a researcher working in a central bank and studying state-of-the art macroeconomic theory, is the absolute conviction that some crypto holders have that society is rotten to the core and that the financial industry (and for that matter the broader well established large cap economy) is a malfunctioning/rotten machine only benefiting the 1%.

I mean reading journals on monetary policy transmission, central banking, and finance in general, it is an extremely complex arena (understanding the global economy might be the most complex man made "game" to try to understand). And those researchers will readily admit faults and shortcomings of our current theories. I never ever see any statements from researchers that carries the same strength of conviction about any of the aforementioned topics compared to the crypto crowd, whatsoever.

Some perspective might lend itself useful.

I'm struggling with https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.

I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?

Hi HN!

I'm the university student behind memordo. I built this because I wanted to help my classmates use flashcards, because I believe they genuinely help with retention.

I started from scratch with a blank html document, and now ~600 hours later I have landed on a nuxt/laravel stack. I have learned so much from building out this platform. I have spent a lot of time on the dynamics of public/private decks, checkout: https://memordo.com/app/public/244 to get an idea of the platform.

Anyways I would love to hear what you guys think about this. I myself personally use this tool everyday to review flashcards.

/Morten