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by rkabir 19y ago
paul - thanks for answering. I was concerned that an awesome site like socialmoth had lost its userbase - glad to see my worry was unfounded. (disclaimer: i totally miss the old school socialmoth.com and the community without any facebook -
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by rkabir 19y ago
(not to mention - what can be learned from the flow of the users to / away from the site over time)
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by rkabir 19y ago
herdrick: I posted "is the site dead? i made a post yesterday morning and it's still on the front page." on socialmoth about 12 hours ago - and it's still on there. I stopped going when the site became too popular - and now - my posts stay
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Ask YC news: What happened to socialmoth?
10 points by rkabir 19y ago|17 comments
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by rkabir 19y ago
I'm of the opinion that [good] Sci Fi is a weak form of philosophy. Societies that don't exist are constructed and described, and then readers can read and digest the implications.
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by rkabir 19y ago
My favorite part of the annual issue is the bits about how people got their start. A surprising number of them seem to have bounced back from living in their car / not having a home, job, money - but then skyrocketing. I bet their perspecti
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by rkabir 19y ago
Human Intelligence Enterprise: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
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by rkabir 19y ago
Kurzweil Shakes. Not kidding. They taste like crap, and they're awesome.
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by rkabir 19y ago
Found it slow on my personal IMAP account. It blew me away at work. I'd shell out 10 bucks for what's out today, and 50 bucks if it would (relatively accurately) bring the very most important messages to the top of my inbox (messages from m
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by rkabir 19y ago
Better wireless data. I know this isn't really new, but I know it's a recent deployment in countries like Bangladesh. It gives you the opportunity to lay a communication foundation throughout an entire third-world country at a significantly
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by rkabir 19y ago
Buddy from college. We hung out enough so that my ambition rubbed off on him, and his positive spirit and good humor rubbed off on me. We've also pulled a good many late nights together working. I don't think you can truly know someone unti
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by rkabir 19y ago
It's tough to say it without drawing out cynicism. Warren Buffet used to talk about why he didn't donate money earlier purely in terms of a return on capital. He felt (correctly, it would seem) that he was better at making his capital grow
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by rkabir 19y ago
being my friend doesn't guarantee you get the presents... but i'm always open to meeting new people.
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by rkabir 19y ago
Forgot the bonus round book: "Lucky or Smart" by Bo Peabody - another VERY short reflection on his founding of Tripod during the tech boom.
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by rkabir 19y ago
Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia" (written in 1899) is a must-read. It's available online here: http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm My AI professor made us read it for his class - no one else in the class seemed to like it, so you might not
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by rkabir 19y ago
I wonder how many page views facebook will lose if everyone uses e-mail [again] instead of facebook messages.
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by rkabir 19y ago
Scott Adams talks about Affirmations here: http://www.mindhacks.org/2007/01/18/scott-adams-affirmations... A friend showed me the chapter at the end of The Dilbert Future - I definitely recommend giving it a once over.
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by rkabir 19y ago
Interesting that the comments on here (so far) are the exact opposite of Guy Kawasaki's sentiments: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/482413_for_lega.html "You could do less legal work and do it cheaper, but if you ever want to raise ve
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by rkabir 19y ago
Not sure how they can do this - but seems like there are a few things that would really help this work. a - encourage the advertisers to make better ads. Ads are inherently useful - when they're relevant. Cool ads are entertainment in thems
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by rkabir 19y ago
Free advertising. Even if you just get your friends to add your app to try it out - that gets broadcast to all of their friends who look at the news feed (I'd guess that few people don't). And if any of their friends are bored and happen to