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by ihinsdale 1y ago
This is really cool. I'm curious how the OP is calculating the shortest path -- recursive CTEs in Postgres? pgRouting? A graph db? I recently built an explorer UI for a cultural knowledge graph: https://giraf.app/graph
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by ihinsdale 3y ago
I'm building that functionality into https://giraf.app , and will set the fees as low as possible (aiming for a flat 4%, compared to Bandcamp's 15% on digital items and 10% on physical items). My goal is for Giraf to he
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by ihinsdale 4y ago
Awesome!
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Show HN: Giraf – Share and discover cultural life(giraf.app)
5 points by ihinsdale 4y ago|1 comments
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by ihinsdale 4y ago
I use an app called Giraf, which I built [0]. My friends and I use it to share the music (and culture in other mediums, e.g. books and movies) that we've been into lately. When something looks interesting, I can save it and it'll
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by ihinsdale 6y ago
Having passed on backing Roam Research multiple times[1], which proved to be a mistake[2], YC now funds a competitor that is quite explicitly a clone. That said, all the best to the Athens Research team. [1] https://twitter.com&#
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by ihinsdale 6y ago
An app for sharing and discovering culture of all kinds (creative works, events, and places): Giraf ( https://giraf.app )
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by ihinsdale 6y ago
Thanks for this excellent food for thought!
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by ihinsdale 6y ago
If you enjoyed this interview, I recommend you check out the book Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed ( https://www.amazon.com/Werner-Herzog-Perplexed-Conversations... ), which is essentially a 400-page interview trans
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by ihinsdale 7y ago
I’d agree that theoretically the regulations could be made more complex in order to mitigate their regressive second-order effect. I believe that familiarity with the evolution of regulation in other domains should disabuse one of the ideal
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by ihinsdale 7y ago
The cost of complying with such regulations would effectively fall on companies as a regressive tax. Which companies benefit in relative terms from a regressive tax? The already-large ones.
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by ihinsdale 8y ago
Jon Kabat-Zinn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
+1 for Stripe Atlas support for Delaware PBCs
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
I'm very optimistic that we can solve this problem with better tools. That's not to deny, as others have pointed out here, that emotions drive our thinking and that a post-fact world is as old as the art of rhetoric. It is, rather
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Yeah, I think that's a great idea. What I'm imagining along those lines is an interface for marking up a source text--basically, for easily turning a highlighted portion of the text into a proposition. I'm currently working o
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
That's an idea! Motivating people to use the argument format has proven a challenge, since it often takes more time to break an argument down into this format than to string sentences together into a paragraph, but I'm confident t
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
You've described a lot of my vision for Sequiturs ( https://sequiturs.com ). Check it out! I'd be very interested to get your feedback.
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Sebald was a true genius. His writing is a journey down fascinating veins of human history and culture, and the uncanny experiences we have of these in the present. He had a profound sensitivity and empathy for what it is to be a human bein
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Yes! I completely agree. Sequiturs is a great fit for these opinionated discussions that don't work in Stack Overflow's Q&A format. Here's an example of debating a technology choice on Sequiturs: https://sequit
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Woah. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm unable to reproduce that in Chrome or Firefox but I'll look into it. I ran the Qualys SSL test on sequiturs.com just yesterday and got an A+! EDIT: I encountered a transient NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORI
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Cool. On Sequiturs each step in an argument is called a proposition; a proposition can be used in an argument as either a premise or a conclusion. Propositions are sort of the atomic element of content on Sequiturs, since they can be reused
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
I'll pose a question to get things started: What do you think of the argument format that Sequiturs uses, namely, a series of premises and conclusions? I think this format has enormous value. It makes an argument much simpler to parse,
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
Creator of Sequiturs here. Very happy to receive your feedback and answer questions!
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Show HN: Sequiturs – a platform for rigorous, digestible arguments(sequiturs.com)
14 points by ihinsdale 10y ago|10 comments
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by ihinsdale 10y ago
"What can we do to bring up the baseline and make the vast majority of our mass media better?" I see Sequiturs ( https://sequiturs.com ) as taking this problem on pretty directly. It's a tool for crowdsourcing the s
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by ihinsdale 11y ago
Thanks for your comment! And for the suggestion of sequuntur. My experience thus far does suggest remembering spelling is an issue. Relatedly, I've registered misspellings (sequiters, sequitors, sequitirs) and am redirecting those to s
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by ihinsdale 11y ago
Sequiturs: https://sequiturs.com Sequiturs is a platform for rigorous and civil discussion. Discussion revolves around arguments, which consist of a series of premises and conclusions. This argument format requires coherence, wh
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by ihinsdale 11y ago
It's really cool that you outlined the argument here in a simple series of steps. That's the approach that I'd like to see more online discussions take, and I've created Sequiturs to promote that approach: https:/&
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by ihinsdale 11y ago
I think a major reason that online arguments don't lead to persuasion much of the time is their format. In the Change My View sub-reddit and elsewhere, people tend to write in blocks of unstructured text--paragraphs--that allow them to

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