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I think he was proposing using the TENS for muscle control similarly to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYpD428hAQ

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 FramerX without some of the things I love most about FramerX.

It looks like all the input/output is proprietary Drama stuff. Framer lets me paste in content designed in Sketch, or import production components we've already built in React. The end result of a FramerX project can be exported as a static webpage you can do whatever you want with (host, A/B test, embed).

A designer can start designing a component in FramerX, and I can later add the logic while retaining their styles/animations/interactions. Then we can pull that completed component into our component library, which can then be used in production and imported into other FramerX projects.

I can't critique anything they show on their website, and the results look great (any attempt to make interaction design easier is a godsend), but right out the gate as a web guy it seems like a big disadvantage even if it outshined FramerX as a general interactive prototyper.

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/enabled them more than ever) 3. Only use email for non-urgent, one-way, or external messaging (although bringing high-value 3rd parties into Slack has been great in my experience)

No matter your concerns about Slack, once you’re in a company using it you have no choice but to embed yourself completely.

"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—and that protects all of us."

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

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 last 30 seconds of Spaced (https://youtu.be/2xKO3KAtDZ0). They started off as early Moog salesmen showing off equipment and ended up introducing many famous musicians like George Harrison, the Doors, and the Byrds to electronic music. They also scored for movies such as The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Point Blank and Rosemary's Baby. True pioneers in the space and good music to boot.

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 social roles. Also even if somehow that was the case, how would the superficial incorrect labeling of sex be comparable to the denial of human caused catastrophic destruction of the environment?

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

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 under a different name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

Thats an extremely oversimplified if not revisionist accusation against Duranty and the NYT.

https://www.nytco.com/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pu...

I think we are, let me know if this works for you.

http://www.amazon.com/CuriosityStream/dp/B017C70WHE

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 definitely in need of improvement.

And yes I am! I still try to poke the content guys every once in awhile to try to get involved somehow. All of us on the dev team and tech team have been following FPV racing religiously.

Nope, same content, same device support, quality is the only difference.

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 if they give much away.

Thanks!

Wow, that looks fantastic. We just actually hired our first UX/UI designer and are working on redesigns of EVERYTHING.

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 all the content available in your country.

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 may visit the site once or twice before they actually convert, so we found it really effective to be able to specifically show more ad's to those people.

Just curious if you know which plugin or blocked asset might have caused that white page? We try to test with most ad blockers and privacy plugins to ensure our sites work without them. We definitely don't require them to use the site.

If you email me the logs in your browser console when the white page shows up it might help us debug it(matt.petitt@curiositystream.com). And once it's fixed if you decide to become a member I'd be happy to hook you up with a deal as a thanks for helping us out.

We just opened up our library recently and are working incorporating it and the content into our funnel.

Sorry to hear that, like we said, we're working as quickly as possible to get an HTML5 compatible player up.

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.

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.

Exactly, we did a whole post about it here https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...

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 you start having to add CDN's, better caching, and better encoding. The vast majority of people out there barely have the bandwidth to stream HD under perfect conditions. We always have to make sure we aren't the bottleneck.

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...

Thats a great suggestion, and ideas of specific pieces or ideas I could hand over to our content guys?

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 as an alternative to adaptive bitrate switching.

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/) Hoping to have the previews live soon.

That's great to know, we love the feedback. And Don't Panic with Hans is one of my favorite personally (https://app.curiositystream.com/video/999)

Definitely bandwidth, HD video is much larger and more difficult to stream than SD.