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by skewart 9y ago
Is it really accurate to call socket.io a "non-web" library? Even lodash is questionable in that category - while not strictly tied to the web, it is primarily used in web apps. I'd be curious to see lower level stuff and&#x
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by skewart 9y ago
If they're the best material for the job then manufacturers will pay the inflated luxury-good prices. People selling gold are selling it at market price, regardless of what their buyers do with it. Just because something only adds X am
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by skewart 9y ago
> I'm not sure I would consider a precious metal a currency because its value is driven by its intrinsic value more than trust. I don't think that's really true. Most precious metals are valuable because people think they&
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by skewart 9y ago
I'd be really curious to hear more about how you set up your tagging infrastructure and model warehouse.
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by skewart 9y ago
Oh for sure, people want to share stuff. It's just a matter of how much, how often, and with whom. Maybe I wasn't clear. From what I can tell Snap is focused on connecting people in the moment. It's more about giving people
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by skewart 9y ago
Thanks! That's nice to hear. From what I can see, there are three reasons why they are in a worse position to create a new, successful product than any other startup or big company. 1. They are already pretty big and successful. It&#x
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by skewart 9y ago
Given the product and strategic path they're on the only thing they can do to create value is restart user growth. Their business model depends on them becoming a powerful brand advertising platform (brand advertising is when compani
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by skewart 9y ago
So, from the token buyer's perspective, how is it different from a company that pre-sold a bunch of regular old API keys without any connection to any cryptocurrency or blockchain? I get the trustlessness of 'smart contracts'
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by skewart 9y ago
Did you read the article? It specifically mentions studies with rhesus monkeys.
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by skewart 9y ago
I was shocked too (I would have guessed closer to 1-2k), so I searched around. In early 2015 he said he just passed 2,000 paying subscribers. [1] In an interview from February this year he didn't say anything specific about customer nu
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by skewart 9y ago
That's simply not true. Very few people have criticized Uber for breaking absurd incumbent-protecting laws. The vast majority of people have been criticizing Uber for breaking laws related to fraud, stalking and harassment, and a gene
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by skewart 9y ago
Lyft drivers can't see if or how much any particular rider tipped. The tips just get rolled into their overall payment. They can rate passengers.
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by skewart 9y ago
> Everyone here complaining about medium and still reading it... At the end of the day the content itself is mostly what matters. As long as people I want to read are posting on Medium I'll read stuff there. And really, it's no
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by skewart 9y ago
Oh for sure. You're definitely right about that. It's just short-sighted. Various metrics might go up from month to month or year over year, but they'll drive away their cuatomers over a decade.
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by skewart 9y ago
That's awesome! I wish there was more content like that out there. I find I've become more focused on following individual writers/journalists/bloggers these days and less attached to publisher brands. And a lot of sign
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by skewart 9y ago
It's amazing how unpleasant most media sites are to read. Medium may still be better than most, but, like Gruber points out, they've been heading down a bad "growth hacking" path lately. What really blows my mind is how
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by skewart 9y ago
Sure, don't use shady exchanges. Using a regular old currency you could end up being ripped off by some fraudster, take them to court and lose the case. The non-cryptocurrency world isn't 100% safe and guaranteed to be protect yo
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by skewart 9y ago
That was my reaction too. I don't think there's enough of an improvement over the status quo experience of crossing a border into a new country and getting to your hotel. In "very foreign" places the value might sometim
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by skewart 9y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what do you see as the benefit over just writing plain HTML with inline JS?
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by skewart 9y ago
So, this looks like it lets you write HTML using JSON instead of XML. You write out the DOM layout, specify attributes for the nodes as needed, and you can add JavaScript when necessary. Aside from the JSON and a bit of syntactic sugar, it
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by skewart 9y ago
Honest question: what's stopping you from writing HTML and JavaScript in a simple text editor today? It's easy to write a basic web app in one .html file with whatever JS you need inside <script> tags.
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by skewart 9y ago
In many (most) parts of the world the legal system for enforcing contracts isn't all that reliable and trustworthy. An Etheruem-based contract is a big improvement over a traditional contract enforceable only by a slow, corrupt court.
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by skewart 9y ago
I've been a fan of Pinterest for a long time, though I rarely use it these days. I've been fascinated, and slightly horrified, by their pivot away from social functionality and towards a vision of a neutral bookmarking site. It&#x
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by skewart 9y ago
> You should be able to do both with far fewer than 12,000 people. You're absolutely right. You could probably run Uber with a tenth of that headcount. The thing is, at a lot of companies - and I'm guessing Uber is the same -
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by skewart 9y ago
I think it's a perfectly reasonable question. I wouldn't expect a candidate to know all the implementation details for any particular database, even one they've worked with a lot. But I would expect them to have a general i
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by skewart 9y ago
You don't think the causality goes the other direction for high-density downtown neighborhoods? Lots of people want to live and work downtown (for a variety of reasons). When thousands of people are will to pay a premium to be withi
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by skewart 9y ago
That's a reasonable position to take. That said, one argument for rolling back prop 13 from primary homes too is that as long as it's in place those property price bubbles are more likely to occur. As long as their property taxes
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by skewart 9y ago
> That, in turn, means top colleges can charge pretty much whatever they want and it's still worth the money. The most prestigious colleges actually don't charge much money, except for families that can easily pay. Financial a
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by skewart 9y ago
That's odd. Every AirBnB I've stayed at has been as impersonal as the most generic cheap hotel chain but with far more hassle and inconvenience. The notion that you'd experience any kind of "community" or "shar
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by skewart 9y ago
Blocking the app is a really extreme move that harms the vast majority of users who are using it in a harmless way. Imagine if people started putting up fliers that said mean, harassing things on lamposts and building walls around campus. W

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