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by takinola 14d ago
/bag/:from is not really an insult in Seattle
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by takinola 23d ago
$500 MRR is so low that I doubt competition matters at that point. Plus, implementation is rarely the differentiating factor for a successful product.
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by takinola 3mo ago
Rather than go after accounts, you’d go after the hosting facilities. The hosting companies are more likely to be able to identify related accounts so working with them will give more scalable results.
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by takinola 3mo ago
My main issue with your logic is less whether it makes sense or not and more that, in practice, it tends to be self-serving. Somehow, people tend to only apply it when doing the “minor” harm benefits them. Humans, myself included, are remar
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by takinola 3mo ago
My issue with this version of explaining the lack of severity of Y2K is that there were lots of countries that were being derided for not taking the issue seriously but did not seem to suffer any ill effects.
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by takinola 3mo ago
> A lot of it also had to do with declining market power: when Google was universally on top, they felt like they could do the right thing without serious negative consequences, but when they were fighting for control of a market, they f
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by takinola 4mo ago
PSA: Don't use Google accounts that you care about when experimenting. If Google takes a dim view of whatever it is you are doing, they shut down all your access (Gmail, Calendar, etc) and not just the service you are playing around w
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by takinola 4mo ago
Can someone ELI5 Starlink revenue sources? At the core, it's an ISP (but served from space). What does Starlink have that differentiates from any other ISP? Is it because the TAM is global? That may be true at the margin, but I am s
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by takinola 4mo ago
The charitable explanation of this is that "rich guys" opinions often end up shaping reality for lots of people. If what "rich guy" thinks today becomes law, policy or corporate strategy tomorrow, then it is worth givin
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by takinola 5mo ago
In the winter, I keep the thermostat at frigid temperatures when I am home alone and jack it up to warm just before any one else gets home. My thinking is that it is wasteful to warm up the entire house when it's just me since I can p
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by takinola 6mo ago
There is likely 2-orders of magnitude demand for more software than currently exists. Speaking for myself, I have so many different apps I would like to have but would not be commercially viable to build because the problem it solves is ve
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by takinola 6mo ago
Honestly, I don't mind the ads as much. The interface is just so slow. You press a button and the TV does nothing. Then you press again but now the TV registers both clicks! Now you have to reverse the second click. Repeat over and
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by takinola 6mo ago
When I bought a Sony TV, I was excited that it ran on Google TV because I thought Google would do software better than Sony could. Oh, how I was wrong. I have been so frustrated by the experience that I just got Apple TVs just so I could
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by takinola 6mo ago
This is a really tempting approach but I think it is the wrong one. The issue is one of trajectory. OpenClaw has the attention of thousands of hackers and there is a huge incentive to contribute to make it better. That will compound very
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by takinola 6mo ago
Booking a flight is the type of thing you think you want to dedicate your full attention to. Largely, the issue is one of trust that whatever is making the bookings will take into account the nuances of your schedule and preferences. Here
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by takinola 6mo ago
The prospect of dying has an interesting way of focusing your mind on what's important. It is a terrible gift you have been given. It sucks to have to balance quotidian concerns at the same time as existential ones so give yourself g
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by takinola 7mo ago
A couple of suggestions: 1. Do some introspection to learn what you actually want (vs what the society around you tells you to want). Free yourself of judgement of your true ambitions and accept what you care about. 2. Follow your curiosit
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by takinola 7mo ago
Writing down what you are feeling and thinking is really effective in reducing your anxiety. It does not need to be fancy or well written, just get it out of your head and unto a page. Also helpful is developing a practice of observing you
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by takinola 7mo ago
I think the point of the song is inevitability (in the context of African liberation). The idea being that Africa is indispensable to the world and will eventually overcome.
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by takinola 8mo ago
I feel like a really good writer could turn these crazy debugging incidents into a Columbo-style story series.
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by takinola 8mo ago
I am always mystified by the level of attention applied to the Doomsday Clock. The organization behind it seems to be staffed by serious (TM) people so there is probably some amount of analysis behind their proclamations but to what end?
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by takinola 8mo ago
I am of two minds here. I can understand how the filmmakers can feel insulted by this demand but I am also one of those viewers that watches movies with one eye on my phone so spoon feeding the audience benefits people like me. I only pay
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by takinola 8mo ago
I guess the best analogy I can think of is the transition from writing assembly language and the introduction of compilers. Now, (almost) no one knows, or cares, what comes out of the compiler. We just assume it is optimized and that it r
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by takinola 8mo ago
Which jurisdictions tax unrealized capital gains? Asking for a friend so I can avoid passing through.
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by takinola 9mo ago
Every morning I make a list of tasks I want to accomplish during the day. Whenever, I get a little in-between time, I look for something on my to-do list that could fit and knock it off.
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by takinola 9mo ago
> and thinks most of the stories are mostly false/lies/storytelling. It's been a while since I read "Surely, you must be joking" but I seem to recall Feynman himself makes the same point. He basically says somet
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by takinola 9mo ago
I obviously don’t know your specific situation but having brought up kids in a similar environment, I may be able to offer some possible explanation for what you are living through. First, never underestimate the impact of your environment
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by takinola 9mo ago
Mostly because online process can scale a lot further and faster. An older cousin can only walk into a store to buy so much alcohol but a stolen token can be reused a million times in a second.
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by takinola 9mo ago
I don’t get the analogy. I keep my house keys out of the hands of people I don’t want in. In this case, the age verification is being circumvented by someone simply asking another person to perform it on their behalf. I guess the practical

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