BadassFractal

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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I currently use a combination of Backblaze for everything, plus manual S3/Glacier upload through the aws cli, for only my photo assets, for redundancy. It's "ok", but not great. Like I
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Ask HN: What do you use to backup your personal files in 2019?
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On that note, any hobbies / pastimes that you're passionate about that actually lead to more time with friends and new serendipitous connections?
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A super uneducated guess here would be that boys choose more to participate in skills-based competition and girls gravitate more towards relationship-based communal activities?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Came here to say this. That was my favorite part of all of WC3, trying out all of the wacky TD coop mods
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manife...
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Something about how only one in two males reproduce, but on average every human female has offspring?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
How does one find any hope in a system like this?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Serum is an absolute marvel. I'm amazed a super small team of people managed to put that all together.
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Was about to say the same thing. TE makes great products, but those had barely any impact on the music production world. The quality of DAWs, the availability of great free VSTs, endless YouTube tutorials and tons of avenues for sharing one
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
More of a meta comment than a criticism: there's been a real explosion in interest in mental models this last decade. Mental models have become top of mind in the SV community (and its associated thought leaders), from Farnham Street,
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Poor man's TLDR: we're not sure yet, but consider taking magnesium supplementation to help with or prevent MD. The downside of light Mg supplementation seems trivial, and the upside could be strong.
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Is the catalog comparable? Does it have anything like Discover Weekly?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
I recently ran into this issue with statins. Doctors are eager to prescribe them, but there seems to be conflicting evidence of them ultimately changing outcomes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Seems related to the Tesla video-based depth perception work?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
It's not perfect by any stretch. I suspect that right now it's very far into its plateau of productivity, and very far outside of the Internet's spotlight, which made everybody calm down. Lowtax is also not really involved mu
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
SomethingAwful forums still have a fairly dedicated pool of members who post regularly. Some have been on there for as long as 20 years. I remember recently talking to someone who met his wife on there a decade ago. They're behind a pa
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
There's clearly large power variance within the 1%. 10M net worth is a wonderful lifestyle, but that crowd can only dream of the kind of doors that having billions opens.
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
That's totally fair. Is there a way to separate wealth inequality from power inequality? e.g. Let's say I'm ok with Steve Jobs hoarding billions of he creates something game-changing for society over decades of starting&#x2F
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Is it safe to say that, if the conditions of the lower and middle class are perfectly favorable, people are living healthy, productive, happy lives and there is upwards mobility for those who are willing to do whatever it takes to dedicate
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
A couple of questions here, purely reasoning about the math: It takes something like 400k to be in the top 1%. That's a decent FAANG developer 10 years into their career, that's not exactly Andrew Carnegie level of wealth. Are tho
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Is there any indication that people actually understand (and can mathematically demonstrate) how to fix this, or are all suggestions going to be based on economic or political ideologies? I'm not an expert, and I've heard many tim
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
My plan was always to dedicate myself full time to the arts once I don't have to worry about putting food on the table. I don't need nice cars, yachts, mansions or expensive friends. I want to be able to rent in a reasonably pleas
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Can the same be said about plastic straws? Maybe another one of those "let's all feel good about how much we're saving the world" efforts with quantitatively insignificant impact?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
When is this sentiment justified and when is it just gatekeeping?
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
My solution was to create a fake account with a fake name on FB, never download the app to my phone, never share my phone number, never upload any contacts, never use a real picture, and only add close friends who know who the fake profile
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
There's a little more to being a photographer than clicking a button, but it might not look like that from the outside. It's like calling basketball "just tossing a ball around".
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Photography has been hit hard this last decade, with IG blowing up and everybody having a half decent camera in their pockets all the time, AND knowing exactly where to go to get high quality shots. For most people it's about replicati
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
You have a limit of 7500 people you can follow. Thus if you're going to be spamming following people, you need to unfollow them as well to make room for more follows.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Also buried in the article is that likely most of his growth came from doing the follow/unfollow gimmick that people have been doing on Instagram for years. You can pay online services to bot that for your account for $x a month. It&#x

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