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by firasd 4y ago
I always thought the 'techlash' was more of an elite discourse thing than a real grassroots thing. Elizabeth Warren launched her primary campaign with big billboards saying 'Break Up Big Tech' and that campaign wasn&#x27
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by firasd 4y ago
Thanks, added these example projects to the post
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by firasd 4y ago
One objection I've heard to this idea of mine is that proprietary tokens are like coins at an arcade, etc--reducing transaction fees. But I think there are probably ways to get around this by preloading Ethereum or other stablecoins in
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No-Token apps: an alternate vision for the blockchain(firasd.substack.com)
32 points by firasd 4y ago|30 comments
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The term 'Bucket List' was coined by a 2007 movie(twitter.com)
1 points by firasd 4y ago|1 comments
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by firasd 4y ago
I scored 90.56 with: cake, car, amoeba, rhombus, dew, atmosphere, heartbreak The words closest to each other were amoeba/rhombus and the most distant were rhombus/car
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by firasd 5y ago
Are there ways to solve for this H1B limitations issue? I guess there's something called an EB-5 visa if you invest a large amount (around a million) for a business that will hire American workers?
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by firasd 5y ago
Yeah I think mindfulness is not about ignoring your problems. It's more about not letting your mind wander unnecessarily. I think this is our gift and curse as humans--we can plan for the future and reminisce on the past, which enables
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by firasd 5y ago
I actually have found comfort in my personal life from thinking about that little passage where the panda frets, "Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles", and the guru responds, "Quit, don't quit. Noodles
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by firasd 5y ago
Yeah this happens to me on Reddit as well. Twitter used to be like this too where a tweet opened like a "lightbox" but a couple years ago they changed it so that clicking a tweet goes to a page with the individual tweet. Generally
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by firasd 5y ago
But "more regulation" is in not an intrinsic virtue even though the media/politicians always think they have good ideas on that front. Also the policy question about regulation doesn't mean everyone in the industry will
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by firasd 5y ago
Yeah Americans seem to associate 'bright white light' with commercial or institutional spaces and dimmer yellow light with 'home' but it's not a universal view, the aesthetic is cultural
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Right, so the consistent thing to measure is if the first movie was a hit. So yes, Jurassic Park (1993) is a counter-example to my point. But the sequels are not covered by the rule of thumb I could be wrong (and potentially this 'big
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by firasd 5y ago
Okay, excluding superhero movies and franchises You've cherry picked huge hits across decades... I'm saying generally if the budget is >$100million and it's a Sci-fi (not superhero/franchise), it'll probably not
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by firasd 5y ago
2017 is when I first noticed this... Ghost in the Shell, Valerian, Blade Runner 2049
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by firasd 5y ago
It's definitely a bet... something I realized in the past few years is that expensive Sci-Fi movies (excluding superhero franchises) don't usually make their money back.
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When JRE went to Spotify many people were hailing it as an anti-cancellation move. They clearly misunderstood.. the podcast was decentralized (even if your podcast host shuts you down you can serve the rss and mp3s from somewhere else). And
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by firasd 5y ago
That's kind of the opposite of personalization right? It's the 'cold start' where they've put the popular podcasts in your face. But I get the general point you're making that they put every feature on the home
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I dig it though. I like telling Spotify what songs I like In fact my grocery app (BigBasket) suggests things based on when I bought them and how soon they run out.. I like that too And the proof of the pudding is in the results... I think m
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by firasd 5y ago
Just been thinking through this... I'm working on a personal project (podcast indexing/search) that involves parsing a lot of RSS feeds. Some years ago I had built the feed checker in Elixir but now when I tried to get it going ag
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by firasd 5y ago
I think the fact that good chess players memorize sets of positions is related to this finding that playing more games is not necessarily the way to improve your skill. Because chess improvement isn't necessarily dependent on reflexive
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by firasd 6y ago
I've been wondering about a taxonomy of food preservation techniques. * Sealing (this technique seems to be a type of sealing) * Fermentation * Cooling * Dehydration * Removing specific elements like sugar etc I guess it all boils down
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by firasd 6y ago
Here's a Jan 2008 archive link for the article being responded to: https://web.archive.org/web/20080112111747/http://www.sics.s... I'm surprised that the original anti-Object Oriented Programmi
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by firasd 6y ago
I'm not an expert but as someone who finds benefit from low-carbing my understanding is: if you raise sugar levels then you raise insulin levels, and at some point if your insulin is chronically raised you lose some sensitivity to the
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by firasd 6y ago
Didn't know about this ordering/sequencing thing, but as far as combining types of foods -- this effect can be seen in graphs from continuous glucose monitors -- I vaguely knew that you can reduce the impact of carbs by mixing in
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by firasd 6y ago
Very cool! I've been thinking about this.. let me just paste my tweets thread from a few weeks ago: -- An issue with mobile UX is that it's tricky to maintain 'ambient awareness'. How do you 'keep an eye' on Sl
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Ask HN: How does audience growth happen on Instagram?
1 points by firasd 6y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 6y ago
It's an interesting experiment in switching between various frameworks but honestly, looking at the docs, they could just use WordPress.. but regardless of backend, I'm not sure I see a need for a React frontend here https:/
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by firasd 6y ago
For those that don't know: on iPhone, touching the top (like near the front facing camera) works like a jump to top button in many contexts.
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It's hard to tell but apparently workers report "some on their production lines might disappear for two weeks without explanation - a likely effect of extreme precautions".

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