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by factsaresacred 7y ago
The 1000 fans concept is mostly about gratitude - 'thanks, keep doing what you're doing'. The 100 fans idea seems to be mostly about expectation - 'I gave you money, now deliver this'. The article describes customer
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
Probably as good a place as any to highlight how broken the Chrome extension approval process has become over the last month or so. Updates that would take an hour now take up to 10 days, including minor updates like a change to an extensio
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
The Cultural Revolution was unlike the political revolutions of Eastern Europe. It was a bloody orgy of violence and vandalism that attempted to tear traditional Chinese culture out from the roots, and in the process destroyed China's
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Shame and the homogeneous makeup of the population likely play large roles. Comparing China to Japan won't do any good as the cultural revolution decimated its social capital.
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Facebook isn't doing the hiring. They outsource these type of soul-destroying jobs to companies like Majorel (prev Arvato). Sifting through the dark side of humanity for hours upon end for minimum wage is pretty bleak stuff. Some glass
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
Cool, having looked at your design file I can see the benefit of having everything laid out - allows you to easily explore different ideas. Figma seems like a tool worth learning, will have to dig in some more.
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
Nice writeup. > "In 2018 I went content-first, but this year I went design-first. I more or less created all of the designs first, then implemented them as opposed to last year." For somebody who believes that it's as fa
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
The deal works both ways in most Asian societies. Grandparents take care of the grandchildren, children take care of the grandparents. But in the West many children shuffle their folks off to a home. Kind of tragic all around.
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
IMF = Intermittent fasting
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> Hacker News is a critical resource for young male techies based in Silicon Valley (Disclosure: I am a young male techie based in Silicon Valley), this has the consequence of excluding female hackers. This is a non sequitur. Anybody o
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
> can you see the big difference Trump made? It's at it's highest level since 2007.
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
Click on his username: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jasonkester Many of his older comments about SaaS, freedom and business are gold.
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
If you've ever tried installing ElasticSearch and then switched to Algolia you'll understand how great of a product it is. Now if Firebase could only buy them out and add decent search to their suite of products that would be swel
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
> The economic problem may be solved...man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, t
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
That we're unable to exert enough self-control to avoid eating ourselves to death paints a dim view of humanity. The majority of people simply have no excuse not to manage their health/weight. Even more so for parents or anybody e
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
In a way it's a good thing that China is revealing its petulant nature to the world. Not that they hid it all that well, but until recently everybody was too busy enjoying cheap electronics to notice the monster they were feeding. Chin
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
> high speed rail is romanticism from bygone days when rail was the only alternative to long distance travel Yes, the 'bygone days' of maglev trains. I don't know if you've ever travelled in Japan or China but the c
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
The Dip by Seth Godin is perhaps the essential book for an 'indie hacker'. It's about identifying the difference between dips (good business ideas facing inevitable challenges) and cul-de-sacs (poor ideas that are not going a
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
I respect the bravery of the protesters but in certain cases the violence is getting out of hand. An example from today: https://twitter.com/FxLowe/status/1179019436923056128 You can't mob the guys with guns.
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> Learning JQuery helped me for a few years, but now JQuery is basically useless to me. 'A few years' is a solid return on investment. Besides the reason Jquery is now useless is because Javascript now has those capabilities
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> Does it also bring emotional/mental trauma? Many jobs come with emotional trauma. Try working 14 hour shifts gluing heads on dolls in some provincial Chinese city. Or swimming through sewers to undo blockages in a Haiti slum. T
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> but I don't think they have the appetite to break the status quo this eagerly. Mainly they don't have the strength to break the status quo. Plus they don't want to jeopardise access to such a large market. It's a
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by factsaresacred 7y ago
white-space: pre-wrap;
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> I think, they are dying out, because of their rigid traditions which rarely make sense in our modern world anymore. Living a monastic life has never been appealing to the broad population. But to say that an ascetic life devoted to i
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It exists - activeTab: > The activeTab permission gives an extension temporary access to the currently active tab when the user invokes the extension - for example by clicking its browser action. Access to the tab lasts while the user i
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In economic terms, it's a classic tragedy of the commons scenario. Self-interest and inertia wins. There's no way you're getting people to downgrade their present for some stranger's future without good incentives.
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Still boggles my mind why the West doesn't use the bum gun. Environmentally friendly (you can optionally use tissue to dry) and cleans better. Wiping yourself seems primitive in comparison.
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> In 2010, the secret covers of a Mossad hit team, some of whom had been posing as tennis players, were blown after almost 30 minutes of surveillance video was posted online of them going through a luxury Dubai hotel where they killed a
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There are prop firms[1] filled with traders regularly making money hand over fist. Many of those traders also make a killing on their personal account. So while certainly not easy, it's possible. Trading suffers from some of the same p
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> The extradition bill? To do what? To extradite a Hong Kong teen that killed his pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan so he can be prosecuted there You're being disingenuous. The extradition bill is ostensibly about that case but here&#

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