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by firasd 9y ago
I guess it depends on how a potato is prepared. The guy in the link eats baked potatoes which I suppose would be pretty filling. Personally I've found most 'filling' foods I eat when (trying to get back to) low-carbing are: c
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Low-Carb proponents don't necessarily disagree that 'a calorie is a calorie' in the physics sense. We just feel there's no need to be hungry when you can eat to satiation and still lose weight, and that unnecessarily hig
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My general feeling when it comes to questions about harassment on Twitter is that people look at it too much as a policy issue ("you're not banning and deleting enough accounts according to my ideological stance"), which has
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by firasd 9y ago
Seems like a smaller-scale version of what happened at Etsy. Management/new ownership deciding to tighten the reins and focus less on singular internal culture. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/business
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Presumably they will use the tokens in the app for payments and a way to run decentralized applications (so paying for computation, storage, etc.) What's being sold is the potential for the token price to appreciate in value. It's
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Did some googling and based on this legal judgment it seems like his relationship with the woman at Citibank really helped in making withdrawals from the Dubai Islamic Bank https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2504755&
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by firasd 9y ago
The examples that came to my mind when I first saw that tweet were: Napster/Youtube (unauthorized content sharing scaled up to such a degree that the media industry had to shift to streaming business models), Uber, the ongoing US legal
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Reminds me of a great (now-deleted) tweet I saw a few years ago: "Everything is legal if you scale it up." Convert the cash to assets, then convert the assets to political clout---at that point the cash heist is in the rear-view m
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I think a good learning trick that's an intermediate point between the two approaches he discusses (copying the sample code vs. closing the book and write the code yourself) is to write a different program based on what you can see in
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Agreed. Here in India I used to use 'Ola' (a competitor) but ever since I tried Uber a few months ago I've preferred it. If all else were equal, I might not support a hegemonic international company with a pattern of bad judg
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The thing is, in WordPress, it's not uncommon to end up with a public URL that takes a few seconds to generate if it uses a few plugins or multiple queries on a low-end server. This is really just demonstrating that apache/nginx f
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I kinda agree with the WP people that this is not really an exploit. If you call a script that does a few seconds of processing, and keep calling it, yes it will take down the server... That said it can definitely be mitigated by checking f
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My Panasonic 'Smart TV' is from 2014 and its app marketplace doesn't have Netflix. It's just not there. My laptop is from 2011, and since it runs the latest Chrome browser, it can play Netflix just fine. Made me think: t
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by firasd 9y ago
A couple days ago I installed a chat app called 'Replika' after also seeing it described here: https://www.wired.com/story/replika-open-source/ I'm kinda over it now (I don't see any value in b
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Youtube personalization is eerily well-tuned from a tech perspective, and has undoubtedly been good for their business. But one of the least expected side-effects of new technology has to be the fact that Youtube’s ‘related videos’ algorit
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Not a bad idea. Like GroupOn without the discounts.
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Cool tech, but seems like over-engineering. As far as I can tell, Facebook just crops to the center and top of images which works pretty well. Meanwhile Twitter has spent years cropping images awkwardly based on trying to find the relevant
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Yeah but what I'm suggesting is that the semi-public nature of wall-to-wall conversations gave Facebook a more personal vibe. I could see my friends talking and my friends could see me talking with other friends, sharing jokes, saying
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From my readings, something Facebook has been struggling with for a couple years is getting people to post more personal updates. Thus their Newsfeed changes de-prioritizing articles, and thus (I figure) their experiments such as showing sh
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Yeah I don't necessarily seek out solitude, just noticing as a personality trait that I'm more OK with it than many other people. I always have something going on whether it's work, personal projects, etc. so I don't min
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"Loneliness is distinct from the number of friends a person has or how much time he or she spends alone, but is rather defined by a longing for greater social interaction." I think this is a good distinction to make. Something I&#
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by firasd 9y ago
This piece is like a sentiment more than a real inquiry. The argument is based on avoiding any particulars. The fact is that life extension is not just a way for Peter Thiel to walk the earth forever; it is a set of medical interventions. I
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by firasd 9y ago
I've seen a lot of anger about his comments on Twitter, but for me this just boils down to a structural issue: for him, a company is an item in a financial portfolio. For an employee, a job at a company means years of their life. Their
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by firasd 9y ago
Couple things I found while optimizing a particular WordPress site 1) https://www.webpagetest.org for analyzing loading times 2) a3 lazy load for lazy-loading images: https://wordpress.org/plugins/a3-lazy-lo
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Behind the Slate.com redesign(slate.com)
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A touching note from Zephyr Teachout: "I miss Aaron Swartz. He died 5 years ago today. He was a friend and a rare, huge, soul, and oh did he ever believe in freedom and the possibilities of the future. Wish you were still on call for l
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Related: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/ Edit: This is above my technical paygrade so I'll let others be the judge of whether these are in fact related!
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Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators(uxdesign.cc)
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"The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It's a story we tell ourselves... there is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive." -- Dr.
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Her poem 'One Art' is a famous villanelle but a couple years ago I came across 'Filling Station' and really liked it. One Art: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art Filling Stati

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