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Network School to cease operations in Forest City by July 22(twitter.com)
2 points by eswat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by eswat 5mo ago
I helped co-host a popup village in rural South Korea last week. Mix of co-working, co-living and local activities like trail running and bird watching. Post-event feedback showed everyone loved it. But personally I think we could have done
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BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)(batteryuniversity.com)
74 points by eswat 8mo ago|64 comments
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by eswat 9mo ago
IIRC he has a supportive partner that took care of being the breadwinner during that development period though.
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by eswat 9mo ago
Sad to look back years ago when the first mobile apps started adopting this "Remind Me Later"-only dark pattern and is now festering everyday drivers like your OS. Between these and services that suddenly suffer from amnesia and s
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by eswat 9mo ago
One of the reasons "aged" account marketplaces got more popular. People buy from vendors that farm a ton of these accounts and wait to sell them, or those reselling compromised accounts (especially with EDU accounts before institu
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by eswat 9mo ago
> I don't mean in a non-participatory sense. This is the issue I've seen in new communities. Although my framing is from seeing mixed digital nomad and local communities. But ones that have the ambition to start a tribe or even
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by eswat 9mo ago
Last week I spun up a HN clone for digital nomad news. Since I was researching DNS and global mobility, and wanted to share links with others, figured I'd just spin up a link site (though I'm still the only user). One unique diffe
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by eswat 10mo ago
Still working on my digital nomad event and workation aggregator. But now with travel and visa guides to help remote workers become productive in Japan and South Korea ASAP and give them visa guidance if they want to stay a bit longer. htt
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by eswat 11mo ago
Started working on digital nomad event and workation aggregator two months ago. https://reorient.guide/ That main usecase is done. I’m now focusing on travel guides for remote workers. Goal is to help those new to a country
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Show HN: Reorient – Discover nomad events and workations in Asia(reorient.guide)
1 points by eswat 1y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 1y ago
Seoul is similar. Many Twosome Places have study desks and some of the chains known for small footprint also have bigger locations for meetings and work (Ediya Coffee Lab). I never understood why people who are frugal would go to Starbucks
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by eswat 1y ago
Pretty sure he lived a life past just having “to show for it is an inheritance and obituary.” He wasn’t an IC drone and this probably makes more sense if you’re in Korea. Some people die sooner than expected but that doesn't mean their
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by eswat 3y ago
North Korea mostly focuses on large game: smart contracts with a lot of Total Value Locked, or other nation states and large companies that would contribute to those states economies Much of the social media scams are done in south east asi
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Scroll token airdrop speculation leads to GitHub issue spam(twitter.com)
1 points by eswat 3y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 3y ago
> this creates an interesting situation for virtually no risk whistle-blowing Not so risk-free unfortunately > A June 2023 email from the bank’s personnel department says “we hereby demand that you [the whistleblower] immediately a
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"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks(thebureau.news)
462 points by eswat 3y ago|395 comments
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by eswat 3y ago
Not sure if coincidental, but YT has been slower for the last few days. But I do have Premium + uBlock Origin running in Firefox (I don’t want ads + all the other crap YT has on their page).
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The Canadian video game industry deserves more recognition(mobilesyrup.com)
4 points by eswat 3y ago|1 comments
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by eswat 3y ago
Also Eritrea… uh but only at 2%.
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by eswat 3y ago
Not sure if it's still popular now, but I've seen many write todo lists to themselves in WhatsApp and delete messages as they complete items. Kind of clunky but if a proper chat + todo + llm hybrid was made, then that would be som
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by eswat 3y ago
What's wrong with working on a side project if you have the financial means to do so without other obligations? I’m sure level-headed hiring managers would agree and those that don’t are probably shops you’d want to avoid anyway.
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by eswat 3y ago
Never got this. Depending on your threat model, I suggest using a unique email address to register your password manager account. Harden that email account and set up email forwards if it's separate or just give the password manager a
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by eswat 4y ago
Last year Celsius and BlockFi crumbled and are domiciled in the US.
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by eswat 4y ago
Likely depends on the circles you’re in. Sharing IG handles is still the most popular way of connecting I get from people I meet for the first time.
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by eswat 4y ago
I had a similar issue with PayPal a few months ago. I’m not sure if it was a bug or its risk-based authentication being inane. But my 2FA options were limited to SMS for several weeks, even though I had software and hardware token 2FA enabl
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by eswat 4y ago
Do we know that most of the people at this Crypto Circle conference are techies though? From the brief description it just sounds like your run-of-the-mill cryptocurrency enthusiast conference and mostly for “investors”. It’s not a builder
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by eswat 4y ago
You're unlikely to get healthy debate about JS at a conference where's predominantly investors that care more about ROI than the tech itself. Same thing with the web3 conference described in the OP where it seems it was predominan
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by eswat 4y ago
If we’re talking about Uniswap specifically, it actually does a decent job of adding guardrails (only listing curated tokens from the Token Lists standard) and warning about unsafe actions (confirmation prompts when you are adding an unlist
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by eswat 4y ago
No. Uniswap will display the Uniswap Labs default list from Token Lists[0], which covers a lot of the legitmate tokens. Token Lists has additional lists from other protocols if you want to expand the listings. Unless a token is playing a lo

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