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Their [Nintendo] art-books are so cool - while a game-art-book isn’t necessarily unique to Nintendo I do appreciate the value in them being so well done and expansive. Don’t have the time to play Zelda sadly but the books have been a really neat thing to page through.
As a kid, going to Barnes and Noble and grabbing the Emerald/Sapphire/Leaf Green official strategy book was, and still is, one of the coolest “books” I have.
> My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content. To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better.
> But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops.
> I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size.
> Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.
> Passkeys are easy to set up and let you securely sign in to your Google Account using your fingerprint, face, screen lock, or hardware security key. You can create a passkey on this device, or use another device.
When I press [Continue], Windows Security appears where I can then scan my fingerprint which I already use to sign on.
A single glide of my finger worked as expected and a 'Passkey created' screen appeared with [Done] being my only option to continue.
After a sign out, re-enter of my gmail and these are the next few steps: https://imgur.com/a/heLrUkb
It seems like it just integrates the built-in verification methods depending on what device you are on.
- Concentration of ‘voting power’: if more investors flock to index funds, a smaller group of fund managers will have more voting power on behalf of their clients.
Theoretically, a ‘concentration of power’ could give [few] fund managers a lot more responsibility than they should otherwise have; that’s a lot of livelihoods to hold be responsible for.
- Increased crorrelation: if a [large enough] portion of the population invests in index funds, the returns of those funds will become more correlated with each other; a ripple could become a tsunami.
> Dr... is vice president of innovation at {company_name}, an innovation incubator for health tech.
Love this site - the breadth of knowledge and willingness to share it is so refreshing.
For as long as I've been on Twitter it's always been super easy to block keywords, accounts, adjacently related topics, etc.
Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with your underlying point that users should be allowed to curate their experience with a platform.
It has my entire life wrapped up in the platform through all of my playlists - but the real value, for me, is still being able to access the profiles and playlists from friends that are no longer here that are preserved forever(.) - our stories are saved in the both the playlist name and songs within it that have never been removed from their catalog.
I, like most everyone else at my school, was only using Pandora (in high school) - but it was not widely loved as it had been steadily going downhill (before 2015); when Spotify was released it, nearly instantly, captured me with the design [1], catalog, and ability to discover adjacently related artists. My 'Daily Mixes' are all very, very good - and I understand that is because I've spent the better part of a decade curating my experience.
UI is whatever at the end of the day - sometimes changes are abrupt, clunky and non-intuitive (looking at you, Reddit Redesign ::middle finger::) but the underlying truth, for me, is that I'm fully adopted to the service - I've 'been there', so to speak:
- I remember in 2014 when '1989' by Taylor Swift was released and her music had not been added to the Spotify catalog; it was a waiting game but it eventually got there
- The 'Spotify Wrapped' was really fun to share with friends - and it still is! It was pretty funny to see 'Reddit Recap', along with other services, follow the format. Plus, I still have access to all of my old 'Wrapped' playlists since 2016.
- They sent me a 'Car Thing' for free, I was able to have Hulu in undergrad, they've sent me some gifts for being a 'superfan' over the years which was fun.
I hear what you're saying about uninstalling apps - the /spotify sub is kind of an echo chamber of complaints - which is okay and is their prerogative - but I just don't feel compelled to participate because I've been with it so long and it has consistently achieved the singular goal of what the service is, and does it very, very well (in my opinion).
[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/10-Year-Evol...
(.) of course Spotify will remove those accounts at some point; but I've made my own backups of them so they are "immortalized" for when that day does come eventually.
It's a start, still kind of expensive; it will be nice for some people who have been on the fence and missed promotional sales.
Nintendo hasn't traditionally lowered the prices of their units in favor of releasing a 'Lite' version which has worked out pretty well for them things considered - but they are more known for being in the gaming space as compared to Meta:
- Nintendo Switch Lite ($199) vs Nintendo Switch ($300)
- Nintendo 2DS (~$80-130) vs Nintendo 3DS ($250)
Even though 2DS was originally meant for younger kids - it was still really exciting for me to get one since I was newly living on my own during freshman year and bought it myself so that I could play ORAS with my friends who had the nicer DS consoles.
VR seems interesting - maybe just a bit too committed for how I like to play - but I know better than to think my anecdote means anything at the end of the day, there are a lot of people out there excited beyond belief for future development in this domain!
Edit: saw a comment that highlighted an earlier price increase which means these are now being 'discounted' again which is kind of lame and discouraging.
Red Bull Stratos: 'A high altitude skydiving project'
- Baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) into the stratosphere over New Mexico, United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth.
- Baumgartner broke the unofficial record for the highest manned balloon flight of 37,640 m (123,491 ft)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I&t=3s
Interestingly enough: Alan Eustace, a former SVP of Engineering at Google surpassed that record (2) years later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace)
- On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record.
- The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2023
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
Before I finally made the decision to just not talk to my parents anymore my dad would constantly shame and belittle me about what my earnings were; he's at a partner level in finance and is under the impression that my lack of income - while still being in college - is representative of his 'failure to raise me correctly', as...unhinged as that sounds.
I don't have any other family because my parents have basically had this attitude for the last 20 years and their siblings understandably do not like to be anywhere near them - as a byproduct I've never met my extended family.
I remember seeing a post on Reddit[1] about ~4 years ago made by the same person who made this[2] post on HN about a year ago.
[1] Does anyone else use salesforce as PRM (Personal Relationship Management) System? https://archive.ph/3mB1U
[2] Show HN: Nat.app, personal CRM that knows who you're losing touch with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30836418
I've bought some high priced liquors before and while my friends have been able to denote special things about them I just can't seem to; so, since I usually drink for a buzz anyway I've just settled on buying a 1.75L of 190 proof Everclear and water it down to 3L since it's essentially a more economic exchange anyway.
Silver linings...I guess.
Those services have much broader market capture than Citizen will probably be able to achieve so I find the information exchange on them much better equipped to handle population dense areas of the city with an overall younger demographic that is more likely to use them as the preferred method.
In my case, it's Milwaukee's East Side; some would call it "dangerous" because of gun violence, car theft, robberies in the areas surrounding it but my personal anecdote is that those are isolated enough where I'm not going to avoid going around and getting things done as they happen.
I guess I could add another anecdote; when I lived on the deeper south side of Milwaukee off of Cleveland avenue and 15th street there was much more "danger" happening around the house with my neighbors being drug dealers and one such incident had a man in the bed of the truck shooting his rifle between the houses on the block in the neighborhood when intoxicated around 11pm as examples; but I genuinely mean it when I say I never felt safer in that neighborhood when walking around.
It could be (and probably is) hubris; but this all goes to say that the community surrounding an area is much more powerful than people reporting incidents to an app. Not that it doesn't meet some specific need in the market and isn't valuable to some; but I digress.
I've really enjoyed reading the discussion in this thread; having approached this general topic with no prior knowledge I now have about 8 Wikipedia pages up that I'll skim throughout the day! Always a fun time.
Craig McCracken, the creator of PPG and Fosters Home has consistently used his Twitter following to boost other creatives by retweeting their work and LaikaStudios has been a great place to see BTS work on their stop-motion projects.
These sites all seem to have some grandiose plan but at the end of the day, the long-standing use case is just a place to build a community, collaborate with like-minded people, and ultimately just take a break from real life for a few moments by scrolling down your feed to consume some content.
Your premise reminded me of another startup I read about recently, washbnb. Probably just because it's adjacent to your concept, but it's nice to see continued expansion and iterations in the short-term rental market.
One thing I will add, the 'trips' page had a few additional trips planned for 1970's. Not sure what this indicates but thought you may like to know. Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/5s3ukOx.jpg
But I have seen the new Corvette a ton, perhaps because it resembles a Ferrari.
- Sean Collins, 'Cooking the French Laundry'. A good series, if you like to cook that is. (https://www.youtube.com/user/Seanc0272)
However, tiktok doesn't allow users to break out of their in-app browser. This is especially frustrating when you wish to follow an artist on Spotify WITHOUT signing into Spotify in the tiktok app.
She was the town's "book lady" or "just the bookstore everyone goes to" so it's obviously been a disappointment when that wasn't the case everywhere as I've moved on and visited other stores; but it's impressions like that, as a child and growing up with that you are left with an idea on how booksellers are supposed to be like because it's what you grew up with as the normal thing; but alas the world is large and I'm sure this author has his reasons.
Edit: wanted to add an example of how fantastic this woman was at figuring people out; I remember going in around maybe ~8-10 years old and she picked 'Edward's Eyes' [1] for me; it had a profound impact on me as a child as it was so similar to my own life, even sharing the same first name as the narrator of the book.
There is something about it just so frustrating in his writing, he's so proud to have been a pest about it; the author is an American and NASA doesn't want images of cosmonauts with guns, cool. That's as far as that should have ever gone.
But don't impose your qualms on your Russian colleagues. Seriously? They were reunited with the earth with the intent to survive in less than ideal conditions, after being in SPACE of all places. Come on.
Totally agree that they kicked off the streaming area; and with those missteps, have provided ample source material in which competitors can improve on. They have successfully captured as much market as one could reasonably expect and it would be good for the market if they had an contender in the space.
Personally, I think users should be able to pass around their passwords as much as they want. Netflix can't lose revenue if it was never going to be bought by the party using the password anyway. I understand account restrictions and the terms of use can explicitly outline that it is not allowed; but I'm paying for your service, I'll use it how I want, respectfully.