Alex3917

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An Update from Urbit(fwdeveryone.com)
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> Why pay $1400 when you can get the same results for free? You can increase your chances of finding water just by accurately reading the geology, the plant cover, the soil type, etc. Even if dowsing doesn't "work", that d
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> How that ever persisted into the 20th Century and to now is perplexing but probably says a lot about human nature. Because if it costs $1,400, and if it works then you make hundreds of millions of dollars, then even if you believe the
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> Would this be feasible for normal (edible) mushroom species as well? It's possible, and would be useful, but generally not to the same extent. Many species of magic mushrooms have extremely precise weather triggers, whereas for mo
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> Suppose you find a mushroom that obviously bruises blue and generally matches the phenotype of whatever local psilocybe grows in your area. What's your risk? If it has chocolate brown spores and bruises blue then the risk is zero
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Right, of people who die from mushroom poisoning, they are almost all either immigrants eating things that look like edible mushrooms where they come from, or else children who are randomly eating things they see in their lawn. Cases like t
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There is a Peppa Pig game for consoles and Windows coming out on Oct. 22nd. If it ends up being good, that might be the first game I try to play with my 3-year-old.
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> I suppose limiting sharing might be justified. But limiting access and/or deleting own files is outrageous. It's definitely not just a hypothetical risk either. In the last month, Facebook blocked me from distributing my blog
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Does YouTube pay content creators beyond the revenue they generate?
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I was talking about the part where Hamilton is calling out Michael Pollan for approaching the subject from a naive position: https://youtu.be/XvMArmwI10Q?t=120
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> even though having one isn't necessary for member-managed businesses Don't you have to waive it in advance though?
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Watch Hamilton Morris’s interview with Pollan. I think people are starting to get tired of his schtick, so he’s no longer getting the benefit of the doubt.
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That Paper Sun example is really good. I like how they're shaking the camera to make the masks look like they're breathing. And the Strawberry Fields Forever example is also super interesting because the parts with the piano are m
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What are the earliest examples of psychedelic video? For music everyone seems to agree that the first psychedelic song was 8 miles high, but I can't find an answer for film. The movies from 1966 and 1967 seem to just portray people tri
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> Employers are mostly recruiting senior levels it seems. Because no one is going to hire a junior developer to work remote. The job market isn't especially hot, it's just temporarily distorted in a way that favors more experie
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Maybe. In practice though being difficult-to-clone is already rarely a moat for software startups; even if it's true, usually a sufficiently funded competitor can at least fake having working technology for long enough to steal market
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How different is this from Cornell's lake source cooling plant? Opponents of that made the same sorts of claims, but afaik were never able to prove that lake temperatures were any different once you get more than a few yards away from
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If it gets substantially easier to build a startup over the next five to ten years, in terms of the amount of hours it takes to get an MVP into production, then it stands to reason that the hit rate from platforms like this is going to incr
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Both creators and influencers create content, and both creators and influencers have influence. But they are completely different things. If you make a sculpture then you're a creator, if you share a picture of yourself in front of tha
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Yale's endowment (presumably) already covers the tuition of every student, just not the full tuition. At most private universities, student tuition only covers something like a third the cost of attending.
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> And since you can't really change how much natural talent you have, in practice doing great work, insofar as you can, reduces to working very hard. Only a few people will have the right body type to be great at any given sport, b
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> I think that's part of what I'm trying to replace by technical means. Just use something like Dashlane. People can report you dead, and then you have up until your specified waiting period to mark yourself as not actually dea
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Completely sustainable, because coins are very highly sub-dividable.
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> How do the various approaches (and the recommended approach) affect SEO? This rule is only for APIs, not for web urls.
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No, but all the code for the book is on GitHub: https://github.com/Alex3917/django_for_startups
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It's not a bad idea. It would be cool to make a single serving page for this and give it some more structure, break out recommendations specific to different technologies, incorporate content written by others, get testimonials, etc. B
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> I was surprised that you didn't advocate for using traditional server-rendered HTML for views that don't require significant frontend interactivity/client-side state management? I don't know that there's one be
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It is pretty confusing, which is why I advocate using only the core pieces of it. This way you get basically all of the benefits, but without each new developer needing to read through hundreds of pages of extra documentation to try to unde
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Thanks, Simon! I thought a lot about how to position this piece, in terms of whether it was really about Django, or about Python, or about software architecture more broadly, or software architecture specifically for startups, or whether it
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> There's a bunch of things a I disagree with in here. This is largely how I feel about things like Two Scoops of Django or Effective Python -- I disagree with a lot of the specific advice, but I still learned a ton from them. That

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