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by MPetitt 7y ago
I think he was proposing using the TENS for muscle control similarly to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYpD428hAQ
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NetNewsWire 5.0(inessential.com)
1 points by MPetitt 7y ago|0 comments
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by MPetitt 7y ago
I usually hate the lazy and dismissive "what's the difference between this and x" comments, but as a UX/Design focused UI developer, I think I'm part of the target market for this. But this looks very similar to Fra
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by MPetitt 7y ago
Anecdotal but most companies I’ve worked with that use Slack, 1. Don’t give devs company phones (and no one should ring my personal cell) 2. Have remote people they communicate with frequently (ask the remote people how slack has included&#
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by MPetitt 7y ago
"It’s for this reason that I didn’t ask Salameh to tell me about his crimes. The harm he caused should not be forgotten, but it must be held apart. Under international law, the right to be free from torture is inalienable and absolute—
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by MPetitt 8y ago
He was possibly referring to the XSS "acronym" that the author of the library uses both in the code and in the example. https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet/search?q=xss
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by MPetitt 8y ago
If you’re interested in the history of stuff like this be sure to look into Beaver and Krause ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_%26_Krause ). If you recognize the THX sound then you’ll also probably recognize the
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Major Open Source Project Revokes Access to Companies That Work with ICE(motherboard.vice.com)
8 points by MPetitt 8y ago|3 comments
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by MPetitt 9y ago
That is a gross false equivalence. Gender, not sex. No democrat will deny that your XX/XY chromosome differentiates you for sexual reproduction. Gender on the other hand, which is what you're referring to, refers specifically to s
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by MPetitt 9y ago
I know this sounds like a meme at this point, but when the "partisan" dividing line is science denial and twitter flame wars with foreign leaders... "reality has a well-known liberal bias” - Stephen Colbert
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by MPetitt 9y ago
70 Years ago: "I don't think being required to prove you're a literate citizen with a test is suppression of the will of the people" If you look at the people affected it's clear that it is racial disenfranchisement
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by MPetitt 9y ago
Thats an extremely oversimplified if not revisionist accusation against Duranty and the NYT. https://www.nytco.com/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pu...
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by MPetitt 11y ago
I think we are, let me know if this works for you. http://www.amazon.com/CuriosityStream/dp/B017C70WHE
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by MPetitt 11y ago
I agree, and since our DARPA stuff did really well the content guys have been working on getting more tech and robotics stuff. We're currently brainstorming ways to have more effective feedback from users about the content. It's d
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Nope, same content, same device support, quality is the only difference.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Unfortunately most tech in that space seems to be proprietary but here are some companies we have found doing cool stuff in the space. Hola CDN Streamroot Peer5 Conviva Cedexis I think some have some whitepapers, but I'd be surprised i
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Thanks!
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Wow, that looks fantastic. We just actually hired our first UX/UI designer and are working on redesigns of EVERYTHING.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
There is some Geo-Blocking, but luckily most of our content is available internationally. When purchasing content, we try to get rights to as many countries as possible. You can preview our library at app.curiositystream.com and you can see
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! So all of those are pixels that we use for marketing to do 2 things. 1st is to track conversion coming from our ad's on those platforms. 2nd is remarket to people who visit our page. We find that many customers
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We just opened up our library recently and are working incorporating it and the content into our funnel.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Sorry to hear that, like we said, we're working as quickly as possible to get an HTML5 compatible player up.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
It varies from country to country, but we always purchased rights for as many as possible. Our library can be browsed without an account and should only show titles available in your country.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
A lot of the problem comes with A: High Quality B: High Scale C: Consistent quality internationally Properly encoded HD video is still easily 4 times larger than the SD equivalent, so that leads to 4 times the bandwidth costs.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Exactly, we did a whole post about it here https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Well when we say "more difficult to stream", we really mean more difficult to stream WELL. With a larger file you are inherently prone to longer start times, more buffering, and therefore a worse user experience. That's when
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We actually wrote a blog post about it here, let us know what you think! https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Thats a great suggestion, and ideas of specific pieces or ideas I could hand over to our content guys?
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We originally got our bitrates from Netflix, and their HD seems to cap out at 5800. Unfortunately due to licenses we can't offer downloads, but we're hoping to add a way to allow a video to fully pre-buffer in HD before watching a
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Subtitles are definitely in the works, and we're eventually hoping to source as many translations as possible. We even recently added our first spanish documentary! ( https://app.curiositystream.com/collection/221&#

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