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by flaque 5y ago
(maker of this thing) > If I use Streambus, how will I get others to see my content? If I want to find new stuff on Streambus, where do I see others' streams? There's two answers to this. The first is that the discoverability w
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by flaque 5y ago
> This ... is actually more elegant and useful than RSS in numerous regards, at least for my workflows. (Though a flipside view might be that Mastodon / the Fediverse is more addictive and a greater timesuck). I mostly agree with yo
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by flaque 5y ago
It's still a bit clunky. Not every app supports every video format, and RSS doesn't cleanly do fallbacks. Our goal right now is to create a publishing platform that smooths over some of these hiccups (for example, generating backw
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by flaque 5y ago
Somewhat of a plug (apologies), but we're bootstrapping an open platform for video on top of RSS to solve this problem. It can play videos on (most) podcasting apps people already have on their phones. Here's an example: https:&#
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by flaque 5y ago
You're arguing against a strawman. Strong Town's "growth ponzi scheme" isn't about bonds (from my understanding). It's referring to the practice of inheriting or overbuilding infrastructure, and then being unab
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by flaque 5y ago
> For all of the ink Strong towns spills they can't point to one municipality that's gone broke from infrastructure costs. Ah, that's a bit of editorializing on my part. "Losing money" is probably more accurate t
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by flaque 5y ago
From my understanding, you can have productive low-density areas. The problem comes from places building "big-city" infrastructure in near-rural levels of density.
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by flaque 5y ago
For those unfamiliar with Strong Towns, here’s a best-effort summary of what they do: Strong Towns is a non-partisan non-profit that advocates for governments to build financially solvent towns. Many cities are perpetually broke because the
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by flaque 5y ago
(Huge disclaimer that I may be wrong in my understanding here) > Wasn't Detroit's problem that it was too dependent a small set of labor-intensive businesses in one industry that have been in a long term secular decline (as for
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by flaque 5y ago
For those unfamiliar with Strong Towns, here’s a best-effort summary of what they do: Strong Towns is a non-partisan non-profit that advocates for cities and towns to build financially solvent places. Many cities are perpetually broke becau
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by flaque 6y ago
By range, I meant the amount a non-athletic person might use for commuting. Most people can easily go 20 miles on an electric bike, but have difficulty going 20 miles on a normal bike. Also Rad power bikes are in the ~$1000 range and are gr
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by flaque 6y ago
I’m convinced most people haven’t realized just how good ebikes have gotten. ~$1000 gets you basically a slow, mini-motorcycle. It’s dramatically cheaper than a car, longer range than a bike, and wonderful in cities.
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by flaque 6y ago
They do! Gas taxes, bans of gas vehicles, required emission standards, etc.
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by flaque 6y ago
Is this an early april fools joke?
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by flaque 6y ago
Your comment seems charged with a lot of pre-existing emotion and I get that this may not be very helpful, but I have yet to see significant evidence that it's "not just low level crimes". Similarly, the DA's current enf
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by flaque 6y ago
The gist is that Chesa Boudin typically chooses not to prosecute many low-level crimes, such as drug possession. That has led some situations where someone was arrested for a low-level crime, not prosecuted by the DA, set free, and later go
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by flaque 6y ago
Almost all meetings and forms of communication ARE open to the public, with nearly unlimited public comment. San Francisco’s problems are not caused by shadowy figures doing devious deeds in the dark. They’re caused by rampant small-c conse
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by flaque 6y ago
This is clever; it’s pulling a common behavior (audio messages on whatsapp) and pulling it into work culture. Slack followed this strategy pretty well.
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by flaque 6y ago
The tone of these articles is really unfortunate. Very much positions the donors as bad guys, their own admission of failure as proof that they’re bad guys, and that the problems are fundamentally unsolvable and that we shouldn’t do anythin
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by flaque 6y ago
I’d cut them some slack, they seem like they’re just following the YC advice. Move fast, launch early. No reason to be a stickler about the rules. Besides, tons of apps and services launch via testflight, gated betas/waitlist-then-inte
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by flaque 6y ago
This assumes that larger investment in nuclear won’t yield reduced costs, just as larger investments in solar did.
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by flaque 6y ago
It’s a bit like saying a software bug is caused by “differing levels of electricity”.
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by flaque 6y ago
This is basically what has held me back from purchasing Divjoy, so sounds cool! :D
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by flaque 6y ago
Why? Purely curious, what’s wrong with trying lots of things quickly and reverting quickly if it breaks something?
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by flaque 6y ago
Not at all! Therapists make more in a single session than a consumer subscription app would in an entire year, and they're limited to the amount a single therapist can accomplish. Most therapists have an entirely booked schedule; they
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by flaque 6y ago
Hmm I agree, this isn't really what I meant. I was concerned we had a business model that treated success stories as failures (folks feeling better unsubscribing) and failures as successes. While we had some early success with folks, t
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by flaque 6y ago
Focus is exactly the word and tone I was looking for.
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by flaque 6y ago
This really wasn't supposed to come across as harsh, and I'm really not down on myself, though thank you for the concern! I think the context of the word "incompetent" is what's doing it here. Maybe "effective&
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by flaque 6y ago
> It seems less like a pivot and more like a full startover. This is a pretty good description of what we did. The path went something like CBT Journal => Regular Journal => Notion Clone => Notion Clone with an API => API for

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