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by visakanv 5y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by visakanv 7y ago
you can follow 0HP on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/0x49fa98
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by visakanv 8y ago
> If you look at the features pages of providers, most tools appear the same. But in practice, there are meaningful differences. Each email-sending tool has a different “product DNA”. There’s typically one thing they’re great for, and ar
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by visakanv 8y ago
And some people will still probably die at 5mph!
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by visakanv 9y ago
Relevant XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/1227/
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by visakanv 9y ago
People making YouTube videos to teach strangers how to do things is one of my favorite things about the human species :')
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by visakanv 9y ago
I would love this
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by visakanv 9y ago
The best way to meet people is not "I'm looking to meet people" – because then those events and spaces get filled with social outcasts and creepy folks. The best way to meet people is to look for activity groups, meetups and
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by visakanv 9y ago
> and the only human interaction are the cashiers at the grocery store Why is that? Even Elon Musk spends times with his kids. What's keeping you from spending time with people you care about?
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by visakanv 9y ago
That's a really cool story. I'd love to read about your experiences in greater detail. Any chance you might have a blog?
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by visakanv 9y ago
> Why don't people just explain it with actual computers instead of pizza? People use mental models and heuristics and metaphors to make sense of all sorts of things. Very smart people do this, too. Simplified maps can have their us
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by visakanv 9y ago
I sell t-shirts on the side. As a person who makes/sells t-shirts and uses apps (and only occasionally pays for them), here's how I think about it: It's not about the skills required to make a t-shirt or app. Consumers don&#x
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by visakanv 9y ago
SW binge?
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by visakanv 9y ago
She was the bullet in the gun that Uber held to its own head; they could've avoided it by not being a shitty place for women to work
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by visakanv 9y ago
History is always a little murkier than stated – it probably started out as something and then found its 'product/market fit' serving Amazon. Steve Yegge's famous essay covers it quite well, I think: https://p
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by visakanv 9y ago
"There will be web dialtone everywhere." – Steve Jobs, 1996 – https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/
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by visakanv 9y ago
Where's the hostility?
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by visakanv 9y ago
There was a period of time where I used both MySpace and Facebook, and preferred MySpace – but the user experience kept getting shittier, it kept getting laggier, spammier... MySpace killed itself
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by visakanv 9y ago
Damn, that's fantastic. I'm using that from now on.
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by visakanv 9y ago
The options you have in jail typically have shitty utility values, so no.
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by visakanv 9y ago
I meant boredom in a general sense, where you have control over your variables (ie you're bored by yourself, with yourself, at home). If you're bored at work, that's a little more complicated. It depends on the context you&#x
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by visakanv 9y ago
I think a lot about the inverse Hanlon's razor, which is "if you want to do something malicious, make sure you can get away with attributing it to stupidity".
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by visakanv 9y ago
I'm of the opinion that it's useful to make a distinction between boredom and idleness. Idleness can be good (Bertrand Russell wrote an essay about this, which OP might be riffing off of), but boredom, in my opinion, is almost alw
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by visakanv 9y ago
> Nothing will change (significantly) until twitters bottom line (user engagement as a proxy for ad money) changes. This has been a problem for media since the dawn of man, I wonder if we can really solve it within our lifetimes. Seems i
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by visakanv 9y ago
Children are messy and un-Apple-like. Can you imagine an Apple-themed childcare center? I'm trying to imagine one now, with snooty little kids in black turtlenecks.
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by visakanv 9y ago
5%? $250,000,000 a year to maintain a building? I don't know anything about building maintenance costs, but a quarter of a billion dollars a year seems a little excessive. How do you arrive at that figure?
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by visakanv 9y ago
As a 3rd party observer with no stake in either the US or China, I wonder how the USA would react if China was the #1 in the world economically, and exporting Facebook, Boeing, etc. I imagine we'd see some American protectionism.
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by visakanv 9y ago
This is part of why I'm very excited for VR. Our system of navigating the web as pages on screens is incredibly limited. Once we can navigate content in space (think video games – you could still drop me anywhere in Grand Theft Auto: V
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by visakanv 9y ago
> he couldn’t have known how comedians would come to double, in a culture saturated with information, as journalists Also – comedians have been truth-tellers since the days of court jesters.
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by visakanv 9y ago
> If anything the case for science and facts is better than ever before in history. Oh man, you just reminded me of this really depressing passage I read in a book about biology that I had put out of mind. A career scientist was complain

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