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by benzible 5y ago
Most of this is dead on but I've been in the middle of this type of deal and "happy to sell" wouldn't be an accurate description of the investors. Having some % of failures is built into the VC model but they'd stil
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by benzible 5y ago
The use of "wokeism" in this context is cringe-inducing. He could describe it as "concern for the welfare of the marginalized" but that would expose his own stated opposition as morally bankrupt. "Woke" is now
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by benzible 5y ago
Really, don't bother https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-sh...
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by benzible 5y ago
Rick Beato disagrees, although he puts the limit at 6 yo, not 3... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=816VLQNdPMM
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by benzible 5y ago
FYI your API pricing page doesn't seem to load https://rapidapi.com/user/fivefilters
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by benzible 5y ago
This is straightforward reporting. Are CNNs many headlines quoting Trump, Republicans or right-leaning judges examples of right-wing bias? Are news outlets not allow to accurately describe a conspiracy theory as baseless? To do otherwise is
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by benzible 5y ago
AllSides buys wholesale into right-wing framing. By what measure is CNN's news coverage on the leftmost side of the spectrum? Is MSNBC really the equivalent of Jacobin or Mother Jones, especially when it devotes 3 hours each morning to
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by benzible 5y ago
Seems like WhatsApp / Facebook would benefit by contributing some resources towards this... https://twitter.com/garazdawi/status/1385263924803735556
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by benzible 6y ago
Cool video explaining the concept of "swing" using Groove Pizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EtsPf3X-I
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by benzible 6y ago
ding ding ding! Copy editors do far more than people assume [1]: > The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can't write very well. That's by no means universally true, but it's true enough. [.
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by benzible 6y ago
When did you last use it? Javascript hook support wasn't there early on. The state of the art is the "PETAL StacK" [1] which uses client-side JS for interactions that don't require a roundtrip [1] https://thin
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by benzible 6y ago
Apple has > 60% market share in the US [1]. 60% is considered by courts to be a barrier to entry for new competitors [2] [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta... [2] https:/&#x2
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by benzible 6y ago
José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26076680
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by benzible 6y ago
Paul Graham probably wouldn't last very long on a school board.
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by benzible 6y ago
You say Sacca "brought Twitter into the world," at best a gross exaggeration of his role, and then complain of a lack of nuance?
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by benzible 6y ago
Bela's cover of Spain is excellent as well: https://youtu.be/5Z7_iEjhBpU This is a live Flecktones version but he started playing it in his pre-Flecktones days and recorded it for his first solo album.
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by benzible 6y ago
Yes, this is well worth reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/media/new-york-t... An excerpt: > The assignment, Mr. Flood recalled thinking, was both hopeless and quite strange in
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by benzible 6y ago
I'm doing some work for a company that develops apps on behalf of clients. There are dozens and likely soon, hundreds of apps that sometimes all need to be updated at once. The process is automated using Fastlane but it still takes sig
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by benzible 6y ago
Apparently Trump screwed up many of the pardons [1] > The pardon for Paul Manafort (on Dec. 23, 2020), is illustrative. By its own terms, the pardon covers only the crimes “for his conviction” on specific charges and not any other crimes
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by benzible 6y ago
There's a great Reply All episode about this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd/
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by benzible 6y ago
In the Phoenix LiveView world, the solution has been to use Alpine.js for user interactions that don't involve loading data from the server [1]. Alpine and LiveView are the AL in the "PETAL stack" [2] [1] https://d
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by benzible 6y ago
Was this posted because of the current TikTok sea shanty trend? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/sea-shanties-are-g... Great examples: https://twitter.com/therealhoarse/status&#x
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by benzible 6y ago
I agree with your larger point but pointing to GTD as evidence that the "core mechanics" work is questionable. Many of its biggest advocates have abandoned it. > Just as G.T.D. was achieving widespread popularity, however, Mann
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by benzible 6y ago
Show me where he's admitted to "deliberately lying". In every interview I've seen he's said the opposite, e.g. [1] > "I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I sa
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by benzible 6y ago
Bad analogy. From all indications, Fauci said what he said in good faith whereas Callimachi seems to have been desperate to confirm that her source was credible in the face of a preponderance of evidence that he was not [1]: > The assign
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by benzible 6y ago
Yes, corporate welfare [1]. [1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...
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by benzible 6y ago
Look again - the current Surface release is pinned to the current LiveView release, 0.15. https://github.com/msaraiva/surface/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
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by benzible 6y ago
Have you checked out Surface [1]? In a recent interview [2] Chris McCord hinted at merging at least some of Surface into LiveView. [1] http://surface-demo.msaraiva.io [2] https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episod
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by benzible 6y ago
Alpine.js is worth a look as well [1]. I've been working with it as part of the newly christened "PETAL stack" [2] of Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine.js, and LiveView. [1] https://css-tricks.com/alpine-js-th
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by benzible 6y ago
He arguably played have played a tangential role in the establishment of Google's business model. Some really interesting history from Ali Partovi, cofounder of Tony's first startup, LinkExchange: https://techcrunch.com

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