Archipelagia

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by Archipelagia 3y ago
And in mobile gaming there's also the matter of looking for "whales". Basically, while majority of people will never spend anything, there's a minority willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars. Then, the difficult
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
The difference in conversions between free and $1 is not a matter of price. The hard part is getting someone to pay in the first place. That's why a model of free game with paid addons/extras/pay-to-win/etc. works so wel
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
At my last job, I had a little bit of experience on the other side of the hiring table – our founder walked me through our hiring process, and it was really eye opening. Any posting we had immediately got a lot of responses. We heavily ta
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
> If you're trying to find a job, you're not applying for "anything and everything". You're applying for a specific role. Strong agree. I'd only add that you might have way better chances reaching to people
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
Eh, I might be a whiner, but I seeing that nature.com, I expected something better than a Malcol Gladwell level article. Okay, the tip with anthropomorphisation is okay, and reminding people that you can't believe in LLMs output is alw
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
I didn't realize that, thank you
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
It kind of seems like an intimidation tactic. Not too many artists will be willing to claim copyright infringement, if they can get hit with a suit in response. And in the meantime, they cab happily continue training their model on whatever
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
Is it legal though? Article mentioned forbidding the use of crawlers. Besides, it talks a lot how they only link to the image... but that's not how AI works, right? Maybe after incorporating the photo into its weights the model no long
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
Yeah, the annoying notifications are the visible part... but as far as I know, GDPR has a pretty serious impact if you're European. It allows you to ask private companies to delete your data, which to me seems like a pretty huge privac
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by Archipelagia 3y ago
I think the entire idea behind safety is to start worrying before it becomes critical. Similarly with Covid, the right time to start worrying (on a societal level) was before the disease becomes widespread. The tragedy of that means that if
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
It was never considered common sense. Some variant of what you're thinking about might've been possible in a small society (say, when the shop owner in a village knew all his customers, and was able to keep an eye on the troublema
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I think there's a massive scale blindness here. Like, obviously I'd be in a big trouble if my password manager suddenly put all of my data online and it could lead to massive financial damage. At the same time, there are governmen
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
If you want to go thay route, it might be better instead to add a % to all the prices, and then at the end give it back if someone left a clean table. Something like "as a small token of gratitude for leaving the place clean and saving
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I think both of this comment is needlessly hostile. Like, starting the conversation with an accusatory comment of "hey, btw, did you think of this very super rare situation, or are you the evil exclusionary guy?" is kind of an ass
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
Except your concern is addressed even in the part that I quoted: "The growth factors [hormones] that are produced have a very similar structure to the human molecules and that is how perhaps by accident the human wound is stimulated to
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
Here's an interesting part that's buried by the end: >Another area of research focuses on maggots’ wound-healing properties. “Clinical and anecdotal evidence suggested that maggots improve or accelerate and stimulate a wound to
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
Hm, first, why exactly would you like to make this shift? Purely to train social skills? If so, I'd recommend finding some small sales side-gig over the weekends instead of doing a full career change. Sales can very rewarding (both in
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I really liked your post, especially comparison in the introvert/extrovert thinking: >Notice the difference in narrative: > > “That person looks interesting, I wonder what their story is?” > “Maybe that person is inte
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
> I'd like to feel more at ease with myself, feel more comfortable contributing in an authentic, confident, light-hearted way. But instead I'm often in my head over-analyzing instead of being present. Two very important pieces
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
For what it's worth, my experience was opposite to yours. Public speaking: once I built competency and realized I'm actually pretty good at it, I started enjoying it much more. Now I feel pretty comfortable presenting to a bigger
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
It reminds me of a time when I've looked found an old password-protected .rar archive on my old computer. It took me around a day to brute force the password and I ended up finding a bunch of old guitar tabs I completely forgot about.
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I am very grateful that the OP posted that "tone deaf comment". I'd much rather live in a world where I can read blunt comments by developers, versus a watered-down statements written by PR firms to absolutely avoid rubbing a
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
This might sound a bit assholish, but I'm writing this to hopefully help others spot a crucial mistake: Did you have anyone on your team with actual skill in sales or marketing? Because from your post it seems you tried the same channe
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
It works through a life insurance. So it's not just the subscription. Besides that, as far as I understand, cryonics is heavily dependent on effects of scale. My hope is that by the time I'm about to get frozen, enough people will
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
If you're in Europe – I'm signed with Tomorrow Biostasis ( https://www.tomorrow.bio ) and the pricing is not as bad as I expected when I initially started thinking about it.
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I'm registered with a cryonics company to be frozen after death on a rare chance that it actually works. My reasoning is that I simply like living. I think that arguments against longevity often sound deep, but if you rephrase them in
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
Sadly, Porn by Edwars Teach (better known as The Last Psychiatrist). He has a very opinionated style, so if it doesn't work for, you'll hate it. At the same time, I've found it extremely insightful about human nature and it f
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
If you enjoyed PHM, you might also like: - For a more horror take, "There's no Antimemetic Division" https://qntm.org/scp . Without spoiling, it's about people trying to fight against a threat that's
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
Likewise – it's been on my to-read list for ages, will schedule it as my Christmas reading thanks to OP's comment.
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by Archipelagia 4y ago
I might be stating the obvious here, but it's just sad that loud negative minority deprieved everyone else of your participation. I learned a ton from your essays and would be happy to see you actively commenting on HN. Like, no specif

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