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by factsaresacred 5y ago
The slides mention that the video on Youtube shorts is a screen recording of TikTok. It's likely that the TikTok video was simply downloaded using the download button, no trickery required. In contrast to Instagram and Google's wa
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
I'm similarly running a one-man show and it's definitely a lonely path at times. Especially as you've built this entire universe of ups and downs that nobody can relate to. Running a successful solo-business is a lonely route
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
A technology creates externalities. Another technology neutralizes those externalities. Given that we're unlikely (or unwilling) to put technological genies back in the bottle, what else can we hope for?
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
Google's Firebase platform uses Fastly so that's a significant chunk of the web.
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
Really nice, thank you
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
The idea of having a mental breakdown and being advised to spend 3 minutes in a phone booth in the middle of a warehouse scrolling through advice on how not to completely lose it so that you can continue to functionally carry out your peona
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
Does concluding that a list of funny names - mostly of western origin - is not evidence of white supremacy require a process? It's almost axiomatic. Claims of white supremacy need to be backed up with proof. Histrionic breakdowns and s
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
> What would be a valid thought and fact-gathering process for that member of the majority group to decide whether to take the concern seriously or dismiss it? The onus is on the accuser to provide evidence of their claims. Management
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
> This sounds more like a threat than a promise Rather it sounds like a person afraid to share his views for fear they would be misconstrued or met with emotional outbursts. Employees were claiming Basecamp has a white supremacist cult
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
You could be describing Twitter.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Add to that: - simplescraper.io - browserless.io - include.ai - apify - browseai In a way I suppose the high number of players in the market is validation.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritua...
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
It may be that there's nothing new in what Kapil says, yet I do value the way in which he says it. I prefer his direct and succinct approach over what you hear from popular sources of counsel such as Tim Ferris, Gary V, Tony Robbins, a
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Where's the coordination? People in subreddits are talking about what they are doing and others are choosing to do the same thing. No different from somebody on CNBC providing stock picks.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Airtable tries this too but you can still deny access, for now. Very off-putting first impressions for what is otherwise a solid app.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Friction I guess. Having to open a new tab...wait seconds(!) for the email to appear...click a link which opens another tab. Nah, just let a password manager handle it.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Check uBlock or Privacy Badger if you have them installed - they may block the Spotify API. Took five refreshes before I figured that out.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
> Despite having dealt with dozens of road traffic accidents involving humans, Mana said the elephant was the only victim he had managed to revive while performing Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Sadly Thai roads are incredibly dan
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Travelling through Europe by train is a must. Sadly most modern trains are sterile zip-locked contraptions. In Eastern Europe you can still find trains with windows to peek out of and doors to dangle your legs from. Maybe not the safest exp
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
It's a mixed bag. Cloud storage is down but at least cloud logging is up to stream all the errors.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Survivorship bias. The bankrupt businesses never get the chance to become big and so you don't hear about them. However I'm certain that the category "bankrupt pharma company" is littered with examples.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.vn/ImzQn
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Loneliness and Me(ft.com)
31 points by factsaresacred 6y ago|11 comments
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
> There are cases where Wikipedia is biased, not because of any intention of people to be biased, but just because no one cares about that thing except fans of that thing. This woefully understates the very intentional bias of editors.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Others have already commented on the jargon so here's some comments on the product's landing page : - using those free purple illustrations that are everywhere on the web gives off an air of laziness and cheapness - ditto for the
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
"Russiagate" is commonly used to refer to the accusation that Trump colluded with the Russian state to determine the outcome of the 2016 election. The Special Counsel investigation found no evidence of collusion. Or is everything
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
China is a revisionist power whose values are antithetical to the US. Its rise almost assures instability. And more generally, no incumbent superpower is going to make it easy for another to challenge it. Made in China 2025 is an explicit b
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
> But having the president order arbitrary punishment without proof of guilt (what happened to presumption of innocence?) looks like a dictatorship to me Extremely naive view. China is a totalitarian state that can compel its companies
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
For the most part this it true but Twitter is often upstream from the news cycle and so is the real world, ahead of time.
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by factsaresacred 6y ago
Diigo is arguably better (bookmarks, tags and highlights) and is going strong 10+ years later.

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