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by alanlammiman 4y ago
I have worked as a translator and interpreter, and I agree. I have often found translation to be a great way to reveal sloppy thinking that is hiding behind a turn of phrase. I promised myself that if I were ever became important enough to
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by alanlammiman 4y ago
Well, to take the analogy a step further, if you go out on the street and start pushing people around, and one of them pulls out a baseball bat and beats you to a pulp, should you really complain that they didn't just push back? Nope.
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by alanlammiman 4y ago
thank you, that seems to be a very useful framework to keep in mind
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by alanlammiman 4y ago
This was also the example that came to my mind. It is perhaps one of the most iconic examples, and as such, absent a concrete example or further clarification, I don't see why you shouldn't assume that this is representative of wh
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by alanlammiman 4y ago
Regardless of whether one agrees, I had to smile at this, because it is simply a more formal way of saying 'OK, boomer'
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by alanlammiman 4y ago
Wow, 802 comments here. No way I can go through all that, but I'm really curious. If you happen to have read a significant % of the comments could you do a summary? (wasn't there a blog that had that kind of thing?)
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Hi, Sticky developer here - we also published a blow-by-blow timeline in pretty excruciating detail on our medium for anyone who's interested in how these things are working nowadays (uploaded here yesterday) - https://getst
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Apple Removes NFT Marketplace from App Store(techcrunch.com)
5 points by alanlammiman 5y ago|1 comments
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Hey, OP here - got lots of views, but would really like to also hear your thoughts.
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Apple App Review is killing Sticky NFT Marketplace app(getsticky.medium.com)
2 points by alanlammiman 5y ago|1 comments
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
They discovered it was more profitable and less hassle to focus on selling ads than trying to be a 'social OS'
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Brazil circa 92 when president Collor froze everyone's account in an attempt to stop inflation.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
oh cmon, this comment (gowld's) should not be downvoted like that. It's a reasonable point to make even if you disagree with it
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Cash app, Venmo, Wise, and hundreds of other payment apps are also this - perhaps a bit larger, more reputable, more regulated, but not fundamentally different (or am I missing something?)
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
While I agree with the sentiment of your first point, in practice if each small business were expected to audit every one of their inputs, it would be hard to get any business done. As for your second point, yes, that is precisely what I re
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I agree with your first point in the sense that having individualised targeting data necessarily improves advertising by some amount vs. merely contextual and aggregate data. For our specific case I'm not convinced that amount is as bi
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Yes like the peer reply said that's Notion, not us. But good point, another thing to keep in mind if you try to use the "Share to the web" notion feature.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Yes, agree, we wanted to try it out for this because we like it for work and it was quick to write up and publish and we thought it might be more flexible for writing up documentation, linking, etc. But we are not satisfied either: Very slo
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
yikes. I'm all for trying 'nudges' over outright censorship, but actually interfering in the social graph seems wrong.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
The problem isn't just Apple's action on IDFA. It's that Facebook seems to be so poorly managed on some fronts that its reactions, rather than mitigating problems, has caused further harm. For example - in a rushed effort to
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I agree with other posts that it's unlikely, but hey - they really are good at shooting themselves in the foot. At the moment to comply with laws requiring "account deletion", I suspect they are doing some kind of automated r
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Facebook Is Breaking Apps in Production While Running Ads for Them(shared-crater-f3a.notion.site)
3 points by alanlammiman 5y ago|0 comments
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Well, but you're also cutting the cash outflow. From a P&L perspective it doesn't matter if you're paying $20 in cash or in stock.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I was reading about early Islam (Reza Aslan's 'no god but god'). It's not a rule that has aged well, but according to him the reasoning was that basically in pre-islamic arabia if you didn't have family support (e.g
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
Sharing my personal experience here, as I found this thread interesting. To be clear: this anecdote isn't intended to argue with the statistics mentioned in sibling comments, or that YC doesn't fund outsiders, nor do I claim to be
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
well maybe if you made $20/h in cash and the share price is $20 you get 1 share/h. You can sell it (so you dont need to keep the equity in perpetuity) but if you live off $15, that you can have $5 (plus/minus appreciation&#x2
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
I wonder what would happen if private sector wage-based jobs were forbidden. If essentially your only option as an entrepreneur/company were to pay in equity/profit-sharing. The labor equivalent of, on the capital front, religions
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
not to mention the risk of blood clots. my wife had thrombosis and nearly died because of birth control meds, and once you look into it, it's more common than you'd think and women do not get nearly enough warning about the risk.
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
This sounds interesting. Does anybody have comments on how helpful it is?
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by alanlammiman 5y ago
These should be NFTs.

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