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New comment by Entangled in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

Entangled — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:43:44 +0000

Worldwide, all 200 countries wherever there is internet.

Regarding regulations we are studying two possible scenarios, comply with all or simply Uberize the model and let people sell money for a fee. For the former we need tons of money, attorneys and on/off ramps with the banking world. For the latter we only would be the messaging transport and people would buy and sell money informally, that's the long tail of the unbanked and informal merchants.

New comment by Entangled in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

Entangled — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:09:02 +0000

Paysapp, a worldwide payment system that allows you to send money as simple as texting a message like "pay 100 to George", available right now in Whatsapp, Telegram, Keybase, Matrix, Discord, Slack and Twitter, just add the Paysapp bot to your chats and type 'help' to start.

We're at a very early stage and looking for investors.

New comment by Entangled in "Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund"

Entangled — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:07:30 +0000

Washer-sized nuclear reactors for home use under $10k.

New comment by Entangled in "Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio"

Entangled — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:26:29 +0000

The WhatsApp Commerce Policy states that businesses may not transact in the sale of real, virtual, or fake currency. Keyword: sale.

Does that discard the creation of remittance apps? That's not selling, that's just sending money between parties. I was thinking on sending money around the world using WhatsApp, is that allowed?

New comment by Entangled in "Adblocking: How about Nah?"

Entangled — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:21:48 +0000

Show me just one ad per page, no scripts, no movement, no tracking and I'll be fine with that.

New comment by Entangled in "Italy bans unvaccinated children from school"

Entangled — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:10:35 +0000

Can we have schools for the unvaccinated?

New comment by Entangled in "DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System"

Entangled — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:33:37 +0000

Software is perfectible, skinware is not. As long as corruptible human beings are in charge, there will be room for fraud.

New comment by Entangled in "The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan"

Entangled — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:48:00 +0000

God's number is zero and no matter what we do that sum will always be above zero. As we are programmed in our DNAs to survive, sustain and multiply, the average outcome will always be positive no matter how many bad apples. If to the contrary, we were programmed to self destroy, we would've been gone long time ago.

New comment by Entangled in "The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan"

Entangled — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:33:24 +0000

> The cardinality of the rationals is the same as the integers.

If you combine N as all possible numerators with N as denominators you get that cardinality of Q = N * N

Also, I don't accept the diagonal argument as proof. Given all possible combinations of numbers, any given number will occur in that set no matter what. If you add special rules of course it falls apart and Cantor's argument is just a special rule.

If we use fruits as an example, taking a diagonal from their letters won't form a fruit either.

    1. [A]PPLE
    2. O[R]ANGE
    3. MA[N]GO
    4. CHE[R]RY
    :
    N. ARNR ?

New comment by Entangled in "The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan"

Entangled — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:32:23 +0000

"Suppose there is a mapping from the natural numbers onto the decimals."

Infinity is a tricky subject.

There are infinite naturals, fractions and decimals but they are different kinds of infinities. If we define natural positives as N and both positive and negatives as the same infinities N * 2 (with a minus sign), we can safely say that decimals are simply all naturals multiplied by infinity N * N * N * 2 or N ^ 3 * 2 where for every single integer like 0, 1 or 2 there will be infinite decimals after the point prefixed by infinite zeroes too like .1 .01 .001 .0001 and even if N * 2 or N ^ 3 are equal to infinity (infinity because we can't measure it or at least not know its final boundary) both infinities are different.

And guessable, we're out of hell someday.

New comment by Entangled in "Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission"

Entangled — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:22:12 +0000

I built some warehousing apps in VFP 20 years ago and they're still running fine. Every time I go ship something the owner asks me to prune and reindex the DB and that's it, another year running smooth.

New comment by Entangled in "12.1T Digits of Pi"

Entangled — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:54:09 +0000

What would it be the most repeating digit and at what position? Just curious.

New comment by Entangled in "Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission"

Entangled — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:17:14 +0000

I've been combing the web for new pics but have found nothing. Anything new?

New comment by Entangled in "Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors"

Entangled — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 22:06:29 +0000

Apple needs balls. They need to show the world they can innovate where nobody has gone before. An Apple TV with screen and game controllers for $2k would sell like hot cakes. A stackable 'Mac Nano' the size of current Apple TV 4k for under $500. An 'iPhone Y' aimed at the lower end for under $300 so everybody can use Apple Pay, Facetime, etc and get immersed in the Apple ecosystem.

You can't survive in a competitive world with just 10% of the market share since interconnectedness is crucial for the dominance of any platform and that's why you need cheaper macs and phones without losing the appeal of high end products for those who have the money in times of economic duress like the ones to come.

New comment by Entangled in "WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS"

Entangled — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:30:06 +0000

This is perfect for writing compact and portable web apps. I built a basic chrome that runs an index.html page and everything linkable after that and all I have to do is inspect myweb.app file and change whatever html, css or js I want. Simpler impossible. And with a little help from Swift I can have all the power of macOS in my hands.

It is neither a hammer nor a nail, it just works for some specific purposes.

New comment by Entangled in "Thelio – System76"

Entangled — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 02:53:52 +0000

"...to the solar system at the time of the Unix Epoch, Thelio embodies the character of our company and community."

Nice detail.

New comment by Entangled in "The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar"

Entangled — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 23:25:51 +0000

I built and android app just like this that marks ten hours, ten minutes, ten seconds and ten ticks being each tick 0.864 ancient seconds. Midnight starts at 000 and noon at 500.

New comment by Entangled in "The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar"

Entangled — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 23:04:41 +0000

I wonder why we haven't thought of a decimal calendar synced with the seasons like:

          W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9
    SPR 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    SUM 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    AUT 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
    WIN 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1 [1]

So we only have four months (seasons) and each has nine weeks of ten days each. Each season starts with a neutral day (equinox and solstice) then follow the weeks with ten days each. At the end of the year there is a universal holiday and an extra holiday for leap year.

We could also name all days of the week after the eight planets and the sun as initially intended (including moonday). We could have seven working days and three days off or three working days then two off then three more working days then two off per week.

Whatever, just wanted to leave a stinky brainfart in this room for posterity.

New comment by Entangled in "Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin"

Entangled — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:07:26 +0000

Why did you pick Ethereum instead of Ripple or Stellar? They have lower transaction fees and almost instant transfers in the seconds while their token contracts are way easier to setup and maintain if you are thinking on adding EUR, GBP, YEN, etc in the future. The only real advantage of Ethereum is their user base which is important but not the only decisive factor.

New comment by Entangled in "The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter"

Entangled — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:57:04 +0000

We have a room filled with one foot of iron, one foot of sand, one foot of water, one foot of air, and some empty space filled with god knows what needs to be filled in order to balance the gravity equations. There is one group of people looking for particles less dense than air to fill the rest of the room. I am in the group that's looking at the other end for particles denser than iron, and I firmly believe they are contained in black stars (wrongly named black holes).