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by riantogo 5y ago
"Apple’s App Store does a lot to protect me." You can still have that by only installing apps from the App store, no? While I can sideload app from any website I trust. And someone else can install a whole different store they tru
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by riantogo 5y ago
It only appears incoherent because you might have conflated two issues in your response (wealth gap and plight of immigrants). Not saying you did it intentionally. Regarding immigrants, you need to meet more of them to get a better idea. Th
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by riantogo 5y ago
How much of an impact would you say it has on the index? If it were normalized for “citizens only” do you really think US will fare much better? If your larger point is about treatment of immigrants, how do you feel about US taxing its immi
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by riantogo 5y ago
Not sure how to respond to a comparison of 0.2 miles of Santana Row to Singapore. It feels we are grasping at the straws here.
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by riantogo 5y ago
Wealth gap list here. Sort by 2019 Gini. You will find US at the worse end of the spectrum (#4) and Singapore is at #64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...
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by riantogo 5y ago
Which is a sentiment I wouldn't dismiss. If you have visited Singapore and SF the contrast will hit you in your face hard. To US folks, Singaporeans lack political freedom. To Singaporeans, US friends lack a clean habitat, safety, heal
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by riantogo 5y ago
I hope it is true. I have been nostalgic about old school forums and during covid lock down built a platform for anyone to host one (and hopefully make meaningful revenue). However, I'm finding it really difficult to get traction. I ho
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by riantogo 5y ago
Many years back the military connected some 1700 PS3s to create the world's 35th most powerful supercomputer. That needed few racks and could do 500 tflops. One latest XBox can do 12 tflops sitting in your living room. Of course the s
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by riantogo 5y ago
In the UK are you able to straight up create a gambling website/app? As an example, could I create a blackjack app and accept/payout money using, say, paypal or stripe? No other hoops to jump through?
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by riantogo 5y ago
I will look into git/github. Thanks for the pointers.
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by riantogo 5y ago
Somewhat related, last time when I posted about my forums platform[1] that I'm trying to get off the ground, someone here asked if it is open source so they can contribute. Now, I would love for it to be open source and have the commun
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by riantogo 5y ago
Currently it is not. And mostly because I don't know how to maintain an open source project.
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by riantogo 5y ago
I’m thinking of bringing back good old forums. Completed the development but haven’t gotten time to spread the word and build monetization tools (for forum owners). Anyone wants to team up in 2022? https://discoflip.com
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by riantogo 5y ago
I think we are saying the same thing. Tumblr could operate the same way as reddit and enjoy similar ad revenue.
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by riantogo 5y ago
So you are saying there appears to be a way (likely nontrivial) that Tumblr could adopt (maybe same as reddit) to keep both advertisers and community happy?
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by riantogo 5y ago
I never respond to those emails, but after reading your comment I'm thinking maybe I should reply with, "what % of those X millions is being offered for this role?"
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by riantogo 5y ago
I'm a web developer and typically use bootstrap or materialcss for my projects. I'm looking for a simple css framework that makes my next webapp look and feel like a mobile app. Any suggestions?
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by riantogo 5y ago
I'm very much a forums person (reddit, hn etc.) and never "got" twitter even after many attempts. But I think on forums front there is a missing economic model. Currently the platforms make all the money on the back of conten
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by riantogo 5y ago
Won't regulations make it expensive? I don't think the technical aspects of money causes the high transaction cost. The regulations does.
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by riantogo 5y ago
Somewhat related, I'm looking for few good folks to start some forums of their interest at https://discoflip.com (shameless plug for my covid side gig). #developer is still available at the time of this comment.
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by riantogo 5y ago
I finally got my covid side project up and running. It allows you to easily start a forum that you can monetize. I always wanted to build something like this and I like how it is shaping up. Please do check it out https://discofl
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by riantogo 5y ago
It took me years to get used to cars stopping for pedestrians to cross. I don't think I'm completely there yet even after couple decades.
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by riantogo 5y ago
In my personal experience with tiktok it will pigeonhole you rapidly. But overall the platform is heavy on silly and fun content (not sure if it intentionally maintained like that by the owners). So before you know it you are pigeonholed in
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by riantogo 5y ago
Awesome. Thanks.
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by riantogo 5y ago
Can you accept in-app payments with Capacitor? Asking because I did not see it listed as an official plugin. My goal is to create a simple kids app that can be monetized via monthly subscription. I can build a traditional website, but don&#
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by riantogo 5y ago
The performance sucks. 30 out of 100 on chrome web vitals. We are overhauling it this week (including eliminating the post load). Great point about hotlinking images which I have taken a note of (also creates mixed content http issues). I d
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by riantogo 5y ago
I'm swimming the other way and trying to create hosted software for plain old forums ( https://discoflip.com ). I started it to scratch my own itch and then opened it up. Honestly, not getting much traction.
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by riantogo 5y ago
Ahh... LaGuardia. Last time I flew out of there they had porta potty for toilets. It might have been one of the worst airports I have been at.
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Thousands of social media visitors for $5(discoflip.com)
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by riantogo 5y ago
I had an invite a while back and got on there. The concept seemed cool, but the content felt like the worst of web in voice format. It could be just that I was in the wrong rooms (I only checked out a few that were recommended).

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