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by fossuser 5y ago
The Bay Area is a relevant outlier here - $1k/month would not cover the monthly property tax on a mortgage for a crappy place.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it's more about the whimsy and fun-ness of the hack while still keeping proper time. I love these kinds of playful projects - feels like the core of 'hacker spirit'.
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That seems like a worthwhile thing to publicize in and of itself? The replication crisis in psychology threw out 50% or so of supposed scientific results. If this (or just straight fraud) is common elsewhere, it seems like knowing about tha
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by fossuser 5y ago
The web won because it's cross platform, keeps state across everything and puts collaboration among users first. In a lot of ways that's easier for users - it's the closest thing to a universal OS. This is mostly a failure o
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by fossuser 5y ago
Desktop operating systems as a differentiating feature started being a strategic failure because of the web. Ballmer doubled down on Windows at the expense of other stuff. There is a common HN trope that Ballmer was doing everything perfect
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by fossuser 5y ago
Arguably Windows was starting to fail and Microsoft appeared to be in serious trouble. Then Nadella replaced Ballmer and corrected course: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/ Now they’ve pivoted to gr
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by fossuser 5y ago
I agree there’s a lot more potential for iPad hardware UI, but also think they’ve improved year over year. It’ll be interesting to see what they work out for iPad OS to make it more powerful. They’re obviously not willing to just slap a sta
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by fossuser 5y ago
I used Google Voice when they first acquired it - it was years early and really ahead of things back then. Texting from the web, voice transcription for messages, could ring multiple numbers. Then they did nothing with it for maybe seven ye
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is wild - thanks for putting the video together, it’s very cool.
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> And nothing has changed about that. Yet - it's a prediction based on the capability of future hardware that seems plausible. > Let's see the hardware that "doesn't suck", let's see the UI and utility th
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Google Glass died because the hardware sucked, the UI and utility were not there. The general magic device was also a failure, but mobile computing is obviously not. The timing has to be right and the hardware has to be possible - if you&#x
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by fossuser 5y ago
You can see the direction things are heading. The iPhone was a UI step change improvement over previous 'smart phones' and the app ecosystem came out of that. The ground work being set in the OP's post is about getting things
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think Stratechery accurately called Microsoft's strategic shift: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/ around the time that Nadella showed up to save them. I think Apple is better positioned with
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by fossuser 5y ago
I recognize the context of this response, but Twitter can be really great. I follow a lot of interesting people - as a result my information on Covid was more accurate and months earlier than anything in the main stream press. Sometimes not
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "Does it ever lead to mainstream, widespread shunning?" It seems like the answer to this is yes? or at least enough to have serious life consequences for those that find themselves on the wrong side of it. Losing your job, lo
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by fossuser 5y ago
I love this chair - I've tried a lot of fancy office chairs and think this one is the best. Pro tip for bay area people - company liquidation events happen all of the time and lots of companies buy these. That means you can get a like-
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think the idea is this: - Most people won't paypal/patreon/send money directly - The current system uses ads as a shorthand for attention. If you're able to get attention you get more ad traction and more money. - Ads
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by fossuser 5y ago
Tesla pretty much always gets 'panned' in early reviews. I'll reserve judgement until I can try it myself. It's not that they don't make mistakes (the Model X and its doors were not great), but I don't trust th
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think whether or not you make something part of your identity is a choice. This sounds like our core disagreement. I think choosing to have something bad be part of the core of how you view yourself is harmful. There’s some evidence to ba
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by fossuser 5y ago
If I had to guess - it's a mixture of the underlying mechanism still being very poorly understood which makes it very hard to treat. Likely a lot of people experiencing what we classify as depression are actually experiencing similar s
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah I agree with you - I think what I'm trying to say is more nuanced and super easy to misinterpret (even in good-faith). It's not about putting a happy face on, but about seeing yourself as a 'depressed person' or as
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by fossuser 5y ago
> I know some people who can talk about their psychological struggles and remain likeable I'd argue this is the basis for all good standup comedy.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I wonder how much making being depressed part of your identity prevents you from getting better. I'm not dismissing the reality of it, but reinforcing it to yourself and others around you on a constant basis probably isn't helpful
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by fossuser 5y ago
Part of the draw for me is a device that does very few things with hardware/software optimized for doing those few things well. In a lot of ways that's the opposite of Android. It doesn't mean that an Android implementation a
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by fossuser 5y ago
I was curious how they would actually implement this, if it's actually onion routing that's pretty cool. I wonder what advantage this gives over using NextDNS?
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by fossuser 5y ago
Interesting - thanks for writing up the differences. For me, lack of android is more of a feature for this kind of device.
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The founders sold to match.com a few years back. After that the cool data blog was killed.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I didn't mean to generalize the entire medium. I love story based games, indie games, etc. I think creative games like Minecraft are similarly worthwhile too. Things like: - Gone Home - Life is Strange - Firewatch - Tacoma - Els
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "Part of what's happening with ideas like this, and the reason Internet identity has been such a tar pit for the last 20 years, is that there isn't one single service model for identity. Internet identity evangelists ten
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There's also an obvious selection bias - the matches may be sending low quality messages, but if women are largely selecting only the top 2% of good looking men they're skewing these results themselves. The 'better' men

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