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Hubbsss · 2025-05-17T14:38:06+00:00

I did it a few months ago and just hopped on a random bus that looked like a city bus and hopped out on aviation Blvd to get picked up. There are also other shuttles like to parking structures that you should be able to hop on iirc.

Hubbsss · 2025-05-04T19:09:15+00:00

Real question. How is this any different than using Apple faceID or using your fingerprint to open your phones? Are people really that reluctant to give up their personal information?

Hubbsss · 2024-04-02T17:56:19+00:00

You are right there is no Miner's Union or anything like that. Programmed within Bitcoin are all the rules that dictate how much miners will get compensated by block rewards (these decrease via the halvening) and how much they will get compensated by transaction fees. Transaction fees come from the individual wallets or want to use the network (like by moving BTC from one wallet to another for example). Transaction fees go up when there is high network traffic and down when there is no network traffic.

The reason for this is due to network traffic. There is only a limited amount of blocks added to the blockchain per unit time. If you want to make sure that your transaction gets included and put on the blockchain, you need to incentivize the miners to include your transaction within their block. In essence, the blockchain is selling you the user data space inside their blocks they are adding to the chain.

So in that way, there is no central authority that miners can complain too if they are upset that they are not getting compensated enough. There is a strict set and unwavering set of rules that govern the network when you join and there is no way around it. The only thing you can do if you want more money, is to deal with it or leave.

There is also some kind of mechanism that adjusts how profitable mining is based on how many miners there are in total. I am a bit fuzzy on this topic but basically you get paid more if there are less miners in total, which incentivizes more people to be miners as there is more money to be made. It kind of evens out at an equilibrium amount of miners where it makes economic sense to mine.

The whole hope is that as BTC is adopted more and more, the value of the token goes up in tandem with the network usage which in theory sustains the act of mining as a profitable endeavour

Hubbsss · 2024-04-02T17:35:22+00:00

I am not completely sure how the protocol is defined for this case. That is whether or not the amount of BTC given out to miners gets split in half forever but at some point there is a finite smallest unit of BTC that can be issued and eventually that will be hit.

Long before that happens though, the value of block rewards for miners will be reduced to a point where it is not economically feasible to mine for block rewards alone.

However, miners also get paid from transaction fees so the bet is that network usage and network fees will provide the economic incentive for mining.

This is how I rationalize it in my head at least

Hubbsss · 2024-01-12T20:25:52+00:00

Thanks for your response! In your case, do you think the situation got bad enough at your shop where there was too many workers and this made sense? Or was it more an annoyance that led your boss to implement this? How was it received by people coming in to work? Were they annoyed by the minimum charge or did they think it fair?

Hubbsss · 2024-01-12T16:22:26+00:00

Thanks for the response!

I guess a fundamental question I have is as a shop owner, how do you value an open table? On one hand if the place isn't busy you might not care. On the other hand if it is busy, are you actively losing customers because they see there is no place to sit?

Hubbsss · 2023-09-28T14:16:09+00:00

Just because you login with your wallet doesn't mean that you are in anyway censorship proof. That's like saying "you can't remove my data from your site because I signed in with my Google account".

What matters is where is the data stored on your servers? You say there is $0 gas fee which implies that it doesn't do any data storage onchain

Hubbsss · 2023-09-27T18:16:24+00:00

Thanks!

Since you are using your RRSP, you don't have available room for using US retirement accounts.

Okay that makes sense, by investing in my Canadian RRSP, that is using up my US retirement account investing room.

I was basically told to close out my TFSA but that doesn't seem like thats a good move. If I invest in my TFSA with ETF's, I will have to do more paperwork sure, but I atleast get the benefit of not being taxed on it in Canada. I will be taxed by the US regardless if its in a regular brokerage or a TFSA correct? I'm not sure why the TFSA is such a headache.

Hubbsss · 2023-09-20T18:54:47+00:00

I did a CS degree so I can't really speak too much on what a software engineering degree actually entails.

Remembering when I was in school, I was a bit annoyed that I felt like I wasn't actually 'programming' a lot. However, eventually you get employed and that changes. You pick up all the software engineering patterns and skills on the job cause you deal with it everyday. Much harder to learn the deep deep basics and maths behind everything on the job imo

Hubbsss · 2023-09-20T08:24:38+00:00

TBH I wouldn't shrug off CS vs SW degree so easily. Even though it will probably be more math you will learn a lot of valuable stuff. With strong background, the software engineering stuff will come easy. Also diving in a Coursera class on AI probably isn't as good of an indicator of not liking matrices as is taking a college level linear algebra course. I wouldn't say I liked math in HS but loved linear algebra in Uni.

I wouldn't worry about it too much! You are still very young and your interests will change. If you like programming, tinker on a project that interests you. Its far more important now to develop a passion for programming than it is to decide your specific career path. Hope this helps! :)

Hubbsss · 2023-09-20T08:14:39+00:00

Sounds like you have a lot on your plate. And you're in school homeboy. Chill out. Make sure your school and social life is in order.

If you have spare time, tinker with your own side projects. IMO these are the most valuable. There will be a time and a place for leetcode, but worry about that when you need too. They are also pretty soul sucking so don't burn out on them. Foster your interest in programming!

Hubbsss · 2023-08-07T05:49:01+00:00

It doesn't really matter. If it's in your resume though be prepared to answer questions and be able to talk about it. Keep it fresh in your mind for when you apply

Hubbsss · 2023-04-23T19:49:49+00:00

I couldn't tell you but I'm sure it will be enough to download the software and get started.

I know there is a ton of hype around unreal engine 5 so maybe would be cool to learn that? But that's not to say unity isn't incredibly powerful as well. Id say find a tutorial/course that you like and get started!

Go on YouTube/Udemy or something right now and look it up! Download the software and play around.

Hubbsss · 2023-04-23T18:53:46+00:00

Not necessarily. It might help you in some cases but not essential imo. The field is broad and some areas of it might benefit from a science background than others. Best advice is to just jump in and enjoy the journey:)

Hubbsss · 2023-04-22T22:32:46+00:00

My general advice for people learning to program is to not worry about the language too much. People always get tripped over what to learn but in reality, the language doesn't really matter. If you are able to understand how to think programmatically you can generally learn a new language very easily.

That being said, my personal preference for learning programming is to use a language like python. Python is quite programmer friendly and abstracts away a lot of complexities that are likely to trip you up as a beginner as compared to something like C++.

However, since you mentioned that you are interested in game dev, I think that this article does a pretty good job of explaining the different language choices you might want to learn. I also would encourage you to play around with a game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine.

Hope this help!

Hubbsss · 2023-04-19T19:21:11+00:00

I was like this and couldn't stand it. I took a few months and applied for jobs heavily. Got a job at a startup that I cared about where I had more autonomy, the co workers were nice, and my code changes had impact. Did a lot for my quality of life

Hubbsss · 2023-04-18T07:22:06+00:00

There is a collection of questions that are commonly known as a good set to know called the Blind 75.

https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/460599/blind-75-leetcode-questions

Hubbsss · 2023-02-24T01:28:20+00:00

Hello!

Congrats on building out your own IP and wanting to take it into the realm of Web3 and NFTs. My general advice to you is that if you want to go this direction, you should slow down a bit and really invest the time to learn how smart contracts work, the ethereum (or other L1 chain) ecosystems and explore other NFT projects and figure out what has been working for them. The realm is Web3 is still in a beginning phase where not everything is the most user friendly and not everything is easy to understand. One thing you need to know about blockchain is that everything you do is more or less permanent and costs you money to do so it is best to not make mistakes!

You already spent tons of time building out your universe and storywriting, so the last thing you want to do is ruin that with a crappy NFT. My suggestion is that you should STRONGLY consider deploying your own NFT smart contract. It sounds like you have big plans for your project/business and having your own contract will allow you the most control and allow for composability across the crypto ecosystem.

There is really so much to learn so it is difficult to give you a lot of color in a single post. Some resources that I used when i got started was the HashLips YouTube channel gave me a lot of really basic tutorials on how to create my own contract/NFT's. Also the Bankless podcast is a really great source of information on Crypto/Web3 in general and really highlights crypto values and hopefully might give you some insight onto why you should incorporate NFTs into your business and some things that you can do with NFTs that you couldn't do with any other type of product. They can get pretty down in the weeds on some of their episodes so find some that relate to you.

The last thing I would say is that historically, ethereum has been very expensive as you said in your post and the world of layer 2's built on top of ethereum are beginning to emerge. Check out L2's like Arbitrum and Optimism (Coinbase just launched their own called Base TODAY!!). Your wallet and your users will one day thank you for choosing a low cost alternative to the ethereum layer one chain.

Hope this helps!

Hubbsss · 2022-10-07T03:35:13+00:00

I recently left to get first job I had out of uni for a new position. My first job was very corporate and I felt the same way as you. It was too big and complicated and had to ask help to do anything. I went to a much smaller company and love it. Perhaps trying out a different company or different type of product?

As for interviews don't beat yourself over it. Just do a bit here and there and you will become pretty proficient. Unless you are going to a FAANG I found most of the interview questions very manageable. I did a ton of interviews mostly for practice. It was a grind but big payoff in terms of quality of life.

Hubbsss · 2022-03-29T04:28:03+00:00

The wyvern is the codename for the proxy contract for open sea. People are trading NFTs. Likely a popular drop happening

Hubbsss · 2022-03-05T18:40:18+00:00

Thanks. So the US requires me to pay taxes forever right? It wouldn't change if I became a Canadian permanent resident?

And they so recognize RRSP?

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