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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Whisper, an audio only school for lifelong learning. With open sources curriculum passed from teacher to student.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Whisper, An audio only school for lifelong learning. With open Source curriculum passed from teacher to student. In private beta.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Bingo: this is the heart of why a better tech solution won’t appeal to the majority. People need to feel like they’re partaking in some particular culture or counter culture. On clubhouse for example, people feel like they’re casually mingl
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Is there someone closer to the decision making process who could explain this sequence of events? From afar it looks as if all the tech companies coordinated this action, Apple delaying it by a day for optic reasons. I am not as troubled by
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Free advertising. The TikTok logo is on every video.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
True! Although most creators don't have any power over the social media channel they use to distribute content, evident by the fact that most creators can't take their audience across social media apps. In end most people come for
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
The writer of this article was on C.H. talking about it. Some people took issue with the fact that C.H. is helping some creators monetize in a selection process that's somewhat opaque. Other people are upset C.H. is monetizing at all,
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Clubhouse user here, it can add value if people are intentional, empathetic to others in the room, and have differing perspectives. There is something magical about co-creating a conversation like Jazz musicians improving a piece. When it w
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SEC is suing ripple for sale of XRP(wsj.com)
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
did he say why?
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Twitter is testing audio rooms a-la Clubhouse as well, they're scouting for beta testers right now.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Same. In college some of the smartest people I know come from Iran Syria Lebanon and such. Tehran university is good at producing scholars. Not sure about the average person, but I do get a sense that scholarship is valued.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
This is the money quote about lottery: "In a world-historic irony, the main effect of this “solution” will be to drastically limit the number of Asian students, while drastically increasing (!!!) the number of White students. The propo
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Believe it or not they do thanks to trumps attempt at banning it. The love for tik tok is far above anything I’ve seen, more than IG. Grindr is also owned by Chinese company, but most people don’t know this one.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Maybe the employee should work at Twitter too :)
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Very true, saw this first hand in a school of all places
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Indeed amazing because I know employees at Tesla who take it home on autopilot in the freeway! It’s also very unsafe ans I dot believe camera only is the way to go, but at least it can drive for more than a mile.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
This is very very common. As long as professors publish, they can get away with a lot of things, bonus points of the students are indentured to their H1B. I've seen Ph.D students in their 30s, mother of children, cry in front of me bec
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
It's the waters around Taiwan and maritime rights. If Taiwan is independent, then the US could set up a naval base there, and Taiwan is only 110 mi away from the U.S. Proximity is the reason why the US embargoed Cuba, and why the Cuban
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Yeah I caught that too. The whole book was a critique of colonialism, unsustainable capitalism, and deconstruction of the white savior complex. I hope he doesn’t shy away from these subjects.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Even blade runner? I felt like it was quite impactful from an emotional level. He does approach subjects where the characters are rational though.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Went to Penn and had no idea! On a related note Vijay's students are really bright, and he's quite a savvy administrator.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Avid Haskeller here. It really depends on the domain. I find OOP to be a really good abstractions for building GUIs, a domain that FP falls short, FRP nonwithstanding. I've been using Swift to build mobile apps on iOS and I find its OO
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Wait what? Were you guys scared of bombs? Or apprehensive about invasion and economic strife?
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Could you speak about why Patrons are more likely to pay on Pateron than elsewhere?
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Just to clear it up, it’s 1.2B pre money.
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Unrelated but Patreon just raised 100million at 1.2B pre-money. So you're not the only one
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Apple test everything on a VPN. This issue took me 2 weeks to resolve, and they had to whitelist the IP addresses for the provider I used :(
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what it could become part? And what was Jeff Bezos like as a thinker and programmer, is he really as brilliant as some people say he is ? What in your opinion was his greatest strength aside from timing and access to
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by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
Does anyone know if Uber/Lyft is actually profitable in California currently due to Covid? That is to say, is there a minimum volume threshold, such that below which ride-share is not profitable?

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