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by GuiA 9y ago
Our lead designer had 20k+ twitter followers, so that was the core of it.
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by GuiA 9y ago
I worked at a startup where we had a “waiting list” model - a page where you gave us your email and you’d get an invite later. The CEO thought this was a good way to build up anticipation, and make sure things were fully polished before ope
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by GuiA 9y ago
Your view is not an unreasonable one. However, what makes you decide to espouse this one rather than the one where he was younger and more naive, worked at the sausage factory for a while, and eventually realized the magnitude and dishonest
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Tubercular Venus: When the Beauty Standard Was Dying(deadmaidens.com)
10 points by GuiA 9y ago|21 comments
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by GuiA 9y ago
Indeed, it seems to be a Photoshopped, color corrected version of the picture from this 2016 article: http://www.businessinsider.com/soylent-ceo-rob-rhinehart-has... (pic only: http://static3.businessinsider.com&
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by GuiA 9y ago
These are certainly timeless. Good design is honest particularly catches my attention, because the design of many digital products is fundamentally about misleading the user - see for example Facebook, where users are kept in the complete
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Voluntary Human Extinction Movement(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by GuiA 9y ago|2 comments
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by GuiA 9y ago
That reasoning is a pretty substantial part of why adoption should be pushed much more than procreation.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Also someone who picked up instruments late in life. I have no lessons to give, but my only advice is that plateaus are normal, and the only way to win is to keep going. To borrow Feynman’s words, keep your pen on the paper. It also helps t
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by GuiA 9y ago
We currently consume roughly 35 billion barrels a year. That’s about 5 barrels per human being on earth. Crazy, but certainly not completely disproportionate. If you had told a 1800 businessman that, I’m sure they would have had a lot of qu
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by GuiA 9y ago
CHI, UIST, CSCW, and TEI are my personal favorite academic conferences for interactive media related design. (The paper posted by GP was published at CHI)
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by GuiA 9y ago
Designer here as well, similarly frustrated with the lack of analytical rigor in the discipline. Cadence & Slang did not impress me. I read it a few years ago now so I can’t quote exact examples, but at the time it felt like more fluff
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by GuiA 9y ago
Lots of marketing speak in there so my TLDR (with apologies to ‘sitelus): when people want to buy Nikes, they go to Nike.com, not drive to the nearest mall (except for grandpa buying nike’s for his grandson’s birthday, but there are fewer a
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by GuiA 9y ago
Care for the young?
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by GuiA 9y ago
You seem to be missing the point. I am not saying that food or dating in Japan is the same as Europe (although I am not sure how you think childbirth works, I can assure you that the core of the childbirth experience is quite the same acros
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by GuiA 9y ago
Consider that San Francisco is more of an extreme than Tokyo. I’ve lived in a bunch of “world” cities, including London, Berlin, Paris, SF/Bay Area, Tokyo, and the outlier there is more San Francisco than Tokyo. The only times (yes, pl
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yes, there are absolutely cultural differences at play. I wouldn’t leave my laptop on a table in a coffee shop in NYC for even one second, whereas I’ve done it in Tokyo. But with all that said, I have friends who’ve had shit stolen in Tokyo
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by GuiA 9y ago
For homicide/fertility/etc rates, a simple google search will give you numbers. For sexual assault/corruption/etc, it’s honestly common knowledge at this point. Googling “Japan underreported crime” will give you plenty o
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is pure exoticization. Japan is fairly safe in certain ways - you’re not at risk of getting shot like in the US, sure. But the police and justice system is very dysfunctional, with crime statistics being under reported, and many murder
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Unorthodox Research Methods(www-personal.umich.edu)
3 points by GuiA 9y ago|0 comments
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by GuiA 9y ago
Well, the general AI doomsday fundamentalist argument proceeds as follows: you tell an AI to cure cancer. It can’t, so it spends some time recursively improving itself, then it finds out that the cost of curing cancer is C, but the cost of
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by GuiA 9y ago
The objective of international nuclear regulations is to avoid a small group of hotheads from wiping out humanity/most of the world’s ecosystems due to their botched experiment (and that’s giving them the benefit of the doubt, you coul
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by GuiA 9y ago
> It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves. If you define intelligence as “being really good at chess” or “factoring prime numbers”, sure, computers are a
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by GuiA 9y ago
Amazon’s end goal is that any consumer purchase you make happens as follows: you say (think?) “hey Alexa I want $ITEM” - anywhere you are - and a few hours later at most, $ITEM is in your house, perhaps even in your fridge if applicable. Ma
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by GuiA 9y ago
My cell phone displays a clear indicator when any app is accessing the microphone (and I know I can trust it because I can access the source code). I have no way to verify what any of the currently available home devices do with their micro
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by GuiA 9y ago
Maybe you should have just turned off the light on your way out of the bathroom.
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by GuiA 9y ago
How does one start a Montessori school? Would love to read about your experience :)
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by GuiA 9y ago
#3 is mistaken. https://www.imore.com/yes-animoji-uses-truedepth-camera-syst...
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by GuiA 9y ago
See also the periodic table of elements, and the various versions that existed earlier on.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the write up. My post came from the fact that as an engineer in Silicon Valley about 45% of my salary goes in taxes, which is more than if I were an engineer in my native European country (where obviously the pay wou

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