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by igammarays 5y ago
> Shellac is labeled as GRAS (generally recognized as safe) by the US FDA and is used as glaze for several types of foods, including some fruit, coffee beans, chewing gum, and candy. Examples of candies containing shellac include candy c
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by igammarays 5y ago
More VC money is NOT always better. Instagram, WhatsApp, and other unicorns were built with extremely small teams. Latest case in point: Mailchimp, built with 0 VC funding.
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by igammarays 5y ago
Pen + paper, and sometimes Omni Outliner. I'm a fan of Omni over plain text tools like Obsidian because it makes the sub-nesting and drag and drop hierarchy very pleasant (almost Roam-like) but is also a fast native Mac app.
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by igammarays 5y ago
> And scrolling social media on their tablets does NOT build any worthwhile technological competency. This is the most counterintuitive thing that most people don't realize. Early screen exposure to addictive digital content actuall
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by igammarays 5y ago
Laravel Forge
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by igammarays 5y ago
AWS is complexity-as-a-service. This is why, as a one-man company, I went baremetal[1]. One flat price, screaming fast performance, and massive scalability if you get a beefy enough machine[2]. I don't have time to fiddle with k8s, try
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by igammarays 5y ago
Yes, screen-scraping is a security nightmare that should not exist, but that's what you get in the US. It's an example of where libertarian capitalism and free-market forces don't work. In Europe, open banking is government-r
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by igammarays 5y ago
Apple Music is now becoming an experience totally unlike any other, what with this, lossless audio, spatial audio and the whole AirPods ecosystem -- nothing else compares. When this classical service comes out I think it might be the last p
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by igammarays 5y ago
It is illegitimate to allow rent-seekers to take advantage of a capital position to force people out of their homes.
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by igammarays 5y ago
The entire point of my comment was to say that commodity products like shoes cannot be compared to housing. There is no psychological cost to changing shoes. There is no effect on community development. Moving homes, however, has second and
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by igammarays 5y ago
The real value is only in the USD and NGN. Using Bitcoin to move the value is only propped by hype-fueled insanity that doesn't need to exist. International banks could easily create an international money-transfer system that would be
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by igammarays 5y ago
I am appalled at how many comments in this thread appeal to the "laws of supply and demand" and economic theory as if a theoretical model could apply perfectly to something as complex as housing. The map is not the territory. The
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by igammarays 5y ago
Rent control doesn't typically restrict the prices they can set on new housing, only on existing units. Therefore the ROI is there to be had , just not in forcing people out of their homes.
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by igammarays 5y ago
> Rent control discourages building more units. The more you can make from rental, the more companies will invest in new construction projects. Actually, I would think the opposite. If capital-laden landlords aren't getting increase
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by igammarays 5y ago
In America the bigcorps have more power than the government (see: Twitter vs. Trump), and only the mob has some influence over the bigcorps. So good luck with lawyering up, but you're better off hacking the algorithm than going up agai
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by igammarays 5y ago
Classic Ukrainian arbitrage - selling Eastern talent to the Western market for prices they can't believe with the high quality that they don't expect. I love it, I did the same thing, most of the design work on my startup was also
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by igammarays 5y ago
> I know how bad the Taliban is. I know what they do to women and little boys. Someone who was on the ground there should know better than to confuse the Taliban with irreligious tribal warlords. The Taliban completely banned the old Afg
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by igammarays 5y ago
If your income is high enough to be paying 5 figure taxes, check out Nomad Capitalist. They specialize in legal tax reduction through global residency.
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by igammarays 5y ago
The interesting thing here is the rate of change in the social media space. Facebook took about 10 years to gain the global reach that it did, and TikTok only took about 3 years. The next winner may come and go within the span of a year.
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by igammarays 5y ago
My ex-gf was paying $100/month for a ghetto studio in Mariupol last year, and a foreigner I know is paying $200/month for an old 1BR on the fringes of Kharkiv right now. Kommunalkas can be insanely cheap, I've heard of $30&#x
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by igammarays 5y ago
There are places where $136/month will easily cover rent in a cheaper town, or food. e.g., where I live, in Ukraine.
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by igammarays 5y ago
You probably don't even know what real vegetables taste like. As a Canadian born and raised who moved to Ukraine a few years ago, one of the most surprising things I encountered was how tasty a simple salad can be. Then I found out t
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by igammarays 5y ago
Because Nordigen doesn't operate in the USA.
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by igammarays 5y ago
I'm calling it now: this is going to be HUGE. This is insane: it's unlocking access to a whole class of data that was previously inaccessible. This is not for information that you consciously choose to save, organize, and store: f
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by igammarays 5y ago
No. This is a fundamentally different idea. This is not a bookmarking/archiver/knowledge base/search engine. For my personal searchable knowledge base I personally use DevonThink. This tool is crazily different -- it screensh
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by igammarays 5y ago
You sound like someone who has taken John Vervaeke's classes at the University of Toronto. Are you talking about Relevance Realization?
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by igammarays 5y ago
One interesting use case is syncing your bank transactions there. That’s what TillerHQ does for Google Sheets or Fintable for Airtable. Once you have the data there, you can use no-code tools like Softr/Stacker to build-your-own financ
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by igammarays 5y ago
TV is a particularly harmful form of entertainment. There are plenty of studies on the negative correlation between hours of TV watched per week and attention span, short-term memory, and general intelligence. The real cost of TV watching i
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by igammarays 5y ago
No, I prefer my newsletters to my inbox over anywhere else. I have an inbox zero workflow, so if I don't have time for in-depth item right away, I print it or save a PDF to my iPad reading list for later review.
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Some Monterey macOS features will work on Apple Silicon only(setapp.com)
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