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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s hard to believe they felt like Grindr was “unsustainable”. It’s completely ubiquitous in the gay scene across every country I’ve ever been in. I mean there’s a lot more variety now, lots of competing apps, but for years Grindr ruled th
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by sprafa 7y ago
Maybe they were afraid of the climate in Washington and thought this was a better idea somehow? As a techie it honestly seemed more appealing to have the foundation etc. Instead of “FB money”
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by sprafa 7y ago
Heheh cough Uber*cough Seriously where’s the vetting VCs are supposed to be doing? Used to be you had to hustle AND have a good idea to have a VC ready company. Now it seems like all you need to do is hustle and be in the tight geographica
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by sprafa 7y ago
If this is true then I’m increasingly surprised at how bad VC returns must be for them to think this is a good investment.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I have high hopes for 2.8 hopefully I’ll get along to testing it soon.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Probably did but it’s still known in the industry for being very very non-standard.
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by sprafa 7y ago
There’s huge costs to using a non-standard choice like Blender over 3dsMax or Maya. They both have loads of proprietary tools (and are constantly adding one more every couple of cycles or so). 3D DCCs are not equivalent to each other. Finan
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by sprafa 7y ago
Pretty sure you can change a lot of this no? Tbh the UI being terrible was one of the main reasons I stayed away from Blender. The fact they changed it makes me have hope I can start using it seriously.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I love Pinboard the way I love no other digital product I’ve ever owned or interacted with. If anyone wants to take lessons for the future of what digital products could and should be, they should learn their lessons from Pinboard. It’s a d
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by sprafa 7y ago
I can’t think of a single GDPR fine I couldn’t get 1000% behind. Haven’t companies had ages to adapt anyway?? I mean dear lord it’s literally like they won’t do anything until they see someone in their space get fined. Absolute corporate mi
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by sprafa 7y ago
Sure that’s relatively true but it makes no sense for 90% of new housing to be built for those 10% of individuals (and I think it’s less than 10%). What makes more sense is that direct foreign investment has spiralled prices up because it a
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by sprafa 7y ago
Didn’t they figure out it was mostly pesticides? Makes sense if the manufacturers were American.
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by sprafa 7y ago
The Chinese model fundamentally works. The globalisation model is probably horrible for these countries, what do they have to offer ?
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by sprafa 7y ago
Lol this is exactly what I imagine. With eye tracking!
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by sprafa 7y ago
Free with ads! And we to keep your eye tracking, sweat, weight and breathing sensor data for better ad localisation around the city! /sarcasm
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by sprafa 7y ago
I assume you might need it for the “person” icon while the user moves around the city?
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by sprafa 7y ago
So true.
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by sprafa 7y ago
The economist had a good article on how out of control their financials are.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Are we sure it’s exported? Either way the “greed for meat” is still a very reductionist position. From my understand a lot of meat consumption is coming from other countries that have recently come up from poverty like China.
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by sprafa 7y ago
“Greed for meat” could be easily replaced by better diets with more varied nutritional sources. Brasil is a country still emerging from backbreaking poverty, my family is from there and my mother would walk with no shoes 1 or 2 hours (I for
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think the biggest worry looming is the financials. Everybody is freaking out on their burn rate.
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by sprafa 7y ago
London has hugely inflated house prices, particularly in Central but now all over the city due to foreign investment. It's obvious - virtually no one who actually lives in the city can afford it anymore.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I don’t think arbitrary education works. In fact I’d like to add that I said above - probably the best education for critical thinking I can imagine is teaching people about cognitive biases and heuristics.
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by sprafa 7y ago
There’s no arguing with you. You’d rather believe that you’re being persecuted than in the complexities of actual reality.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I’ve also always had trouble meeting very uncritical students of history or philosophy. I think both sort of have a tendency to remove illusions from your mind, although philosophy in particular is not too useful I think beyond the fundamen
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by sprafa 7y ago
IMO critical thinking seems to appear when multiple conflicting hypothesis of truth are thrust upon the individual. The people I’ve met who are least capable of critical thinking seem to have accepted some form of universal or protouniversa
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by sprafa 7y ago
They generally do highly deceptive editing. As a filmmaker you can always smell a rat from how they edit videos.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I always have the underlining on so i wouldn’t be able to see it anymore. Seriously the underlining of links just makes sense.
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by sprafa 7y ago
The CIA constantly says “we have prevented X terrorist attacks in the last Y years“ and nobody believes them
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by sprafa 7y ago
Some of the very early icons were so garish I remember being astonished by them.

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