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by jrowen 6y ago
From the article: This is precisely why an agency like ESA is developing its Comet Interceptor Mission, to be ready to chase future interstellar visitors. This is basically the thesis of the article and the person you're responding t
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by jrowen 6y ago
Yes! That would be awesome! You can register an account (very quick, no email required) and then submit a video. Scroll down from the main section to find the instructions.
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by jrowen 6y ago
That's a good question, to be honest I hadn't gotten that far yet. It would be great to get some contributors on board but I haven't started. Maybe dig for some specialty forums/subreddits and reach out to people there.
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by jrowen 6y ago
Thanks, I'm open to it, but I have no experience with that. Any pointers on where to get started with that?
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by jrowen 6y ago
Yes, definitely. As the database grows I would have to add a third level, at least. Probably sections within the large pane that would fold out. Creating a useful hierarchy and keeping it balanced is one of the bigger challenges of the proj
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by jrowen 6y ago
Much appreciated, I wasn't sure if the design would resonate with people :)
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by jrowen 6y ago
I've considered that, but most of them have at least some videos that are not quite as instructional, or that would go into multiple different categories. I think cherry-picking keeps it more focused. Perhaps maybe a separate section t
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by jrowen 6y ago
Thank you! Yes it goes into a queue (if you're interested you can see the queue in the demo video [0]). One thing I would like to add to the user's profile is a list of videos they've submitted and their status - I agree that
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by jrowen 6y ago
Thank you, my thought here was to make the registration as quick and easy as possible - no email or confirmation is required. I figured that someone would have to be somewhat invested in order to want to make submissions anyway - it takes l
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by jrowen 6y ago
Thank you for the detailed feedback! I've removed the unused data on videos, and included the department/section list in the page, so that's one less request. I would like to add caching but haven't tackled that yet.
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by jrowen 6y ago
Yeah I had considered it, as I know it’s a popular topic, but I know virtually nothing about cars. Would you break out the different sections by manufacturer - is most stuff specific to certain makes/models? Or is it general enough tha
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by jrowen 6y ago
I chose them based on what I've come across and searched for, and comparing several videos of the same type. The carpentry videos were some of the earliest ones I added so my process may not have been as good then. Of course, I'm
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by jrowen 6y ago
By more fields do you mean more departments/subjects? Those would be added over time, it takes time to find and vet videos and I didn't want to have a bunch of mostly empty ones, though I understand that it can give the appearance
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Show HN: YTT Tech – My curated database of instructional YouTube Videos(ytt-tech.com)
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by jrowen 6y ago
Hey HN, I love learning how to do things on YouTube. It's amazing - empowering, really - that we can instantly look up how to do so many things. When I looked around for a site dedicated to organizing and curating this content, I didn
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by jrowen 6y ago
The answer to that varies from person to person. It may provide nothing. Many people have tried it numerous times and don’t like how it makes them feel. You really just have to be the judge of that for yourself. For me it helps slow down my
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by jrowen 6y ago
Sorry - I was referring more to some other stuff I was reading than anything you said. It has to do with it because it enables it. It's part of abstracting investing away from providing capital to companies because you believe they wil
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by jrowen 6y ago
I keep coming back to these fundamental questions. HFT (and market making in general) increases liquidity. Why is liquidity a good thing? Why should it be so easy to quickly buy and sell ownership of companies? To me that seems like a bad t
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by jrowen 6y ago
Thank you. I definitely have some reading to do in trying to wrap my head around all of this. At first glance, it does seem like some people in the industry (Charlie Munger, Michael Spence) share my perspective (though Munger could just be
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by jrowen 6y ago
So HFT is not absurd because it lowered transaction costs for retail investors. What mechanism did it achieve this by? I call it absurd because computer algorithms trading stocks at the microsecond level seems completely divorced from the t
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by jrowen 6y ago
That’s been my argument/question all along, though. I started off with the sentiment that maybe we should stop people from buying stocks, period. HFT was not the main thrust, I can easily claim that you’ve sidestepped my points as well
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by jrowen 6y ago
Oh, I wouldn’t even call my idle layman thoughts a theory, more of a hunch really. Have retail investors generally benefitted from doing an amount of trading that would incur significant transaction costs? Do you think my general sentiment
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by jrowen 6y ago
Yet people don't run around saying that we should ban people from being able to buy stock because of that. I honestly wonder if we should sometimes. I struggle to see how the real value created by this whole system outweighs the nega
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by jrowen 6y ago
I don't think these are dumb questions at all They're not, but they're also somewhat orthogonal to "UFO culture." You're describing a philosophical/sociopolitical discussion that isn't really inform
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by jrowen 11y ago
This reminds me of a passage from Aldous Huxley's essay on mescaline, The Doors of Perception : We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in h
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by jrowen 13y ago
Are you supporting that dogma or just stating it? This brings to mind the Orwell essay on language usage[1]: Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. IMO having "three = 1" with no immediate context