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by giansegato 5y ago
I like Google, especially for the work they're doing in the Dev space (eg Tensorflow), and I love Apple. People do like companies, to certain extents.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Any idea how to try it out? Seems like the beta is fairly restrictive in giving access out.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Can't you go 5/5 days at the office, even if the meeting is online? I know many people who are doing this.
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by giansegato 5y ago
We befriend people with whom we spend time. As simple as that. Usually that happens because you have common interests, common foes, and/or common values, but those are a non-problem in college where everyone is facing the same issues,
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Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped over 50% Since 1973, Paper Finds (2017)(nytimes.com)
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by giansegato 5y ago
Never once I said it's the _only_ reason this happened (obviously). But between "it's the only reason" and "it has nothing to do with it" there's a lot of ground to cover, don't ya think? I don't
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by giansegato 5y ago
You know that the US had one of the largest stake in Germany's appalling debt before Hitler took power, right? Why do you think it took 10 years for the Nazis to go to power? Between '23 and '33 one thing happened: 1929. And
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by giansegato 5y ago
The first plot is especially troubling. The last time the top 1% had as much as the bottom 90% was right on the eve of WWII. Now, an exclusively economic interpretation of history is certainly wrong, but one cannot refrain from thinking tha
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by giansegato 5y ago
While many others would prefer the other way around. There's no inherently better model. Someone might prefer flexibility over ambition. Others ambition over flexibility.
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by giansegato 5y ago
To that I might add what the OP also mentions, that is how FB leveled the playing field when it comes to advertising. You can launch a new business competing with big corps with as little as a 100$ ad budget. It wouldn't have been poss
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by giansegato 5y ago
I don't get it. What do these people would be doing with such data? Ok, they know that a certain Facebook account named John Doe is likely to be a male, between 40 and 50 years old, voted for Trump both in 16 and 20. So what? It'
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by giansegato 5y ago
This is not entirely true (disclaimer: living in Germany, with a German-based business). You can embed social media. What you can't do is embed a social media post without disclosing in the cookie notice (that must be approved before
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by giansegato 5y ago
I don't think our average Carl will use a blog instead of Instagram to share his thoughts. Yes, inferior products prevail from time to time, especially when those negative externalities you mention help consolidate a dominant position.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Which means - whether we like it or no - that social media were and are superior products when it comes to this specific use case, otherwise people won't be using it.
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by giansegato 5y ago
It's not only a matter of "big numbers", but also of confirmation bias. We're never paying any attention to irrelevant ads - we're ad blind to them. But the moment we see a very relevant ad to a recent conversation,
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by giansegato 5y ago
Risk-taking is very cultural dependent, in some contexts people would avoid taking risks as their default option. That said, I feel that car shops just work because, well, it's the law, especially in some countries. In the end "
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by giansegato 5y ago
The Daily from the NYT had an episode a few days ago precisely on this idea. Very interesting. So not totally far fetched I'd say. [1] https://pca.st/episode/6deccd04-ca45-404b-8537-c4bbe73fedb9
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by giansegato 5y ago
There's no such thing as learning by reading. It's always learning by acting (as opposed to passive reception, that just doesn't stick). [1] https://giansegato.com/essays/edutainment-is-not-learning/
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by giansegato 5y ago
Get ready to fight against anti spam like crazy, with your own server. Email is supposedly decentralized, but under the umbrella of "anti spam" it's really an oligopoly of providers
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by giansegato 5y ago
A part from special cases (like bank apps), you have to always allow users to sign up in app. And if you allow to do that through identification providers other than email (eg. Google or FB), you have to provide Apple sign-in too.
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by giansegato 5y ago
You would need to also consistently fake location data inferred from cell towers, which I guess is a bit more difficult to spoof.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Where can I find the Svelte discord you're mentioning?
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by giansegato 5y ago
My Alma Mater! Weird to see it mentioned here.
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A philosophical intuition behind the blockchain(giansegato.com)
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A philosophical intuition behind the blockchain(giansegato.com)
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by giansegato 5y ago
I truly hope you make it to your seed round. I think your biz is ultra solid. Happy to chat if 1. you happen to expand in Berlin, 2. you wish to fundraise around here. I have some data [1] that you might benefit from. Also: I think you&#x27
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by giansegato 5y ago
Congrats! I thought of launching something very similar when I went through the hassle of moving to a new apartment. Honest question: why did you launch to HN, if your service is only available in Switzerland?
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by giansegato 5y ago
I don't think that GH code is easily accessible, with rate limiting and TOS forbidding it. GPT is an open model (for the most part), but its training cost is in the order of tens of millions of $ I can think of no one but a handful of
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by giansegato 5y ago
This feature is effectively impossible to replicate. Only Microsoft positioned itself to have: - dataset (GitHub) - tech (openai) - training (azure) - platform (vscode) I'm impressed. They did an amazing job from a corporate strategy s
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by giansegato 5y ago
Very interesting use of reco engines! I always thought that the current state of newsletter discovery is very poor. At the same time, I would not be ok with a product owning the full newsletter stack (like eg. Spotify with podcasts). Good l

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