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Re:Problem of Time on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:04PM (#22787649)
Isn't time just a history of movement? For example, if you stopped the movement of everything in the universe (all the way down to subatomic particles) for a "moment" and then turned movement back on again, how long would that moment have lasted for? 1 second or 100 years? There's no way to define how long that moment lasted, since nothing was moving during that moment. So it seems to me that time cannot exist without movement which makes me think that time is a byproduct of motion (a history of motion).
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020) on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:38PM (#22751382)
GreenStork (https://greenstork.com) | CTO, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer | LA, CA and REMOTE | Part-time

GreenStork makes it easy for cannabis dispensaries to accept online orders from their own website or from our marketplace. You can see a 1 min. explainer video here. https://vimeo.com/238992565

I'm a solo founder and GreenStork is bootstrapped and fully built. I'm looking to bring on a CTO and engineers for equity / possibly as co-founders. These would be part-time, remote positions. The current roadmap includes: adding additional integrations with cannabis point of sale solutions, code check / code improvement, transitioning the frontend from Ionic to Vue.js.

Backend is Ruby on Rails and frontend is currently Ionic (looking to move to Vue.js).

To apply please email [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring right now? on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:24PM (#22667726)
GreenStork (https://greenstork.com) | CTO, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer | LA, CA and REMOTE | Part-time

GreenStork makes it easy for cannabis dispensaries to accept online orders from their own website or from our marketplace. You can see a 1 min. explainer video here. https://vimeo.com/238992565

I'm currently a solo founder and GreenStork is bootstrapped and fully built. I'm looking to bring on a CTO and engineers for equity / possibly as co-founders. These would be part-time, remote positions. The current roadmap includes: adding additional integrations with cannabis point of sale solutions, code check / code improvement, transitioning the frontend from Ionic to Vue.js.

Backend is Ruby on Rails and frontend is currently Ionic (looking to move to Vue.js).

To apply please email [email protected]

Re:YC's request for startups: Government 2.0 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:39PM (#19994577)
I think the key to improving the US government is to bring the system closer to a one person, one vote situation. I believe the best way to achieve this would be to do the following: 1) Abolish the electoral college and go with the popular vote for the presidency. 2) Weight a senator's vote by the population of their state. So a senator from California would have more voting power than a senator from Alaska. 3) Draw congressional districts via an "I cut, you choose" type system [1]

Our current system has a number of problems. Swing states in presidential elections become the focus of presidential candidates and their platforms, even though those states are not home to the majority of the US population. Also, our current system creates weak links in the chain that are easier to exploit. For example, if you are a corporation looking to block legislation the most efficient means of doing so would be to contribute to the campaigns of the senators from smaller states. The average amount raised in 2012 by senate winners in California was $29.3M vs just $1.7M in Utah. It is much less expensive to influence smaller senate races, but the voting power a corporation would influence is the same. [2] If senate voting power was weighted by population, corporations or other groups would have to influence costlier senate races.

[1] https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cu... [2] https://dposorio.com/822/the-cost-of-winning-a-senate-race/

Re:On the Looming Bitcoin Bubble on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:47PM (#19894461)
It's odd that Mr. Byrne doesn't mention the ICO craze at all in contributing to the 2017 bull run in this post. "ICOs and token sales became popular in 2017...By the end of 2017, ICOs had raised almost 40 times as much capital as they had raised in 2016..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_coin_offering
I wish they were doing a wider release in the USA. It only played for one night in LA last week and it's going to play again for one night this week in a tiny theater. I'm a big Gilliam fan and have been waiting to watch this film, but it's difficult to see.
Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:11AM (#9287610)
My understanding is actually the opposite. While DuckDuckGo does have a small index of their own, they mainly rely on api calls to Yandex and Yahoo BOSS!
Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:05PM (#9286835)
I was in touch with Blekko about a year ago regarding using their api to access their index for search results for my own meta-search engine. They might have used Yandex to augment their search results, but Blekko definitely had its own index as well.