daave

I wonder what percentage of the world’s software engineers live in these 3 cities?

I had a look into it, and it seems we set the following headers when retrieving user images:

> cache-control: public, max-age=3600

So I believe your browser _should_ be caching these.

Being able to change your email address is a known gap, sorry about that. For now if you want to use a different email you'll need to make a second account. We plan to make account merging possible in the future.

A short-sighted technical decision on my part: we use the Firebase Auth UIDs as our internal user IDs, but Firebase Auth does not allow you to have multiple email auth-providers on a single account. So we need to add a layer of indirection in our data model.

It's helpful feedback that this isn't as discoverable as it should be. If you hover your cursor towards the bottom of the explore page, some links show up.

You can log in with OAuth, or by Email.

You can change your _display name_ on your profile page, and that's what appears publicly on the site (your email doesn't appear publicly, even if you log in by address!).

Today to get a custom profile URL like radiopaper.com/Dave, you just need to ask and we'll create an alias for you. There isn't a self-serve alias mechanism available today, but we're thinking about how to provide one. Any profile can be linked by the URL radiopaper.com/uid, for instnace my profile can be reached at https://radiopaper.com/user/AwQLwnOgQFdyDfNoYfNCSSsVdx43, "Dave" is just an alias.

Clearly having separate concepts of login method vs display name vs profile URL is all a bit confusing, this is helpful feedback!

We'll also endeavor to block accounts from the platform that violate our policies (https://radiopaper.com/policies).

1. We're certainly looking into this, and other approaches to content discovery.

2. You can already add bios! Go to to your user page (link in the top-right), and it should be clear how to add a bio.

3. Thanks for the suggestion, we'll definitely think about this more.

So glad that you're excited to use the platform.

Would you like a custom alias (radiopaper.com/MichaelLeonhard or similar)? At the moment we provision those manually, on-demand.

We saw your message to Socrates, I'm afraid he's not around to reply today, so it'll likely remain unpublished.

1. Send a message to someone you already know, using their email address.

2. Comment on or start a conversation with someone whose post you find interesting.

We expect to add more features around discovering both users and conversations in the future.

As a counterpoint- I take express bus 545 from Redmond to Seattle between 8 and 9am on weekdays, and there’s typically less than a half dozen people on the bus. I get from my home to the office in 30-40mins. The slowest part is the tiny stretch of I-5 with no bus lane.

I don’t think public transit has failed to keep up, it’s under-utilized, in part due to anxiety about COVID. These same routes were jam packed in 2019.

You can designate people who can access your Vault, after a certain waiting period. If they request access prematurely, I can revoke it during the waiting period.

There are written instructions for my next of kin on what to look for in the Vault.

The main difficulty is if my next of kin forget their LastPass master password.

I’ve been thinking of distributing a key via a set of USB stick using Shamir’s secret sharing, with written instructions to use them to recover a backup of the Vault kept offline… but have not gotten around to this.

Could the time spent taking the neighbors trash away be spent doing something even more impactful?

Is the interaction with these neighbors caring and educative, or antagonistic? In the latter case they're unlikely to emulate it or pass on the idea to others.

Agree with finding good rewards and I'd substitute low APR for low/no annual fee.

Personally I find most of their content to be pretty decent, so I wouldn't filter it out as a rule.

We don’t have enough information yet to say how protected someone might be from being infected again if they have antibodies to the virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...

How long IgM and IgG antibodies remain detectable following infection is not known.

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it remains uncertain to what degree and for how long individuals with antibodies (neutralizing or total) are protected against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 or what concentration of antibodies may be needed to provide such protection.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...

Before moving to the US I always thought it was the style of bun that made it a 'burger', whereas if you put it between two pieces of sliced bread it would be a 'sandwich'.

For GEDMatch, Ancestry.com, 23andMe, etc, most of the value comes from being able to aggregate many people's data. If they had to delete it after collecting, they'd have to charge a lot more, and there's just no market for that.

Perhaps they could anonymize the data (at least, purge foreign key references to account/billing info) after 6 months, but not delete it.

I believe usage for ads is highlighted on the non-legalese privacy page because it's a common question/concern, but the terms specify that data can only be processed as requested by the customer (IANAL, but that's my read and understanding as a Googler who works on Cloud infrastructure).

  3. Know that customer data is not used for advertising.
  
  You own your data. Google Cloud does not process your data for advertising purposes.

Hope they add the same functionality for Google Cloud HTTPS Load Balancers soon as well.

YouTube can target ads much better than TV, and with TrueView ads the advertiser only pays if the viewer doesn't skip, so more of the revenue is going to be coming from ads that mutually add value (at least that's the theory)

Assuming they're willing to do the deal, if your alternative is letting the options expire worthless, it seems like a no-brainer to take a loan with no recourse unless there's a liquidity event. You wouldn't have made the full $300k, but at least a solid portion of it.

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