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Nadav Hollander

Nadav Hollander

@NadavAHollander •

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1/ @DharmaProtocol is thrilled to unveil our ambitions for the next generation of financial products that "can't be evil" — Lever: https://goo.gl/qBG1an Thread 👇

4/ We've made important strides in that direction with Lever. See for yourself: Offering your Ether on the Dharma Credit Market is no longer predicated on having MetaMask installed — you simply send your Ether to a one-time "relay address", and that's it. We handle the rest.

3/ The next generation will replicate the existing Web 2.0 experience in a wholly non-custodial manner — meeting consumers in their comfort zone, rather than pushing them out of it.

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TruStory

@isTruStory •

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Claim: Range anxiety will limit the ability of the all-electric car, even if the battery costs come down. Our contributor, @JustinTierney_, challenges this claim and thinks it's bogus 👇

Related to this is the argument that when a station is found, it takes considerably longer to charge than to refill a gas car. This is still true, EXCEPT:

Comparing EVs with gas-powered cars presents challenges because many of the comparisons are not apples to apples. 😬 One such issue is the idea of "range anxiety": The FEAR of running out of battery with nowhere to charge because of a lack of charging stations.

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amos 🎲 doing itch.io stuff

amos 🎲 doing itch.io stuff

@fasterthanlime •

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woo, the Antivirus Vendor club flagged my installer again, should I A) automate submitting to "false positive" forms B) mess with my exe until they stop flagging it gratuitously

this is it, isn't it this is actually Hell

yep uh-huh this is it

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Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis •

1/3 Really proud to share #AlphaStar with the world - a milestone for game-playing AI, and the first system to beat a top pro at #StarCraft2. Massive thanks to @Blizzard_Ent, @Liquid_MaNa & @LiquidTLO for being part of this great journey! Blog + Replays:

2/3 As well as showing how far we’ve come, it was exciting to test out our new prototype system that uses the in-game camera interface to play. Massive respect to @Liquid_MaNa for outplaying it! We’ll keep working on it and play more games soon :)

3/3 While StarCraft is ‘just’ a (very complex!) game, I’m excited that the techniques behind #AlphaStar could be useful in other problems such as weather prediction & climate modeling, which also involve predictions over very long sequences. Peer-reviewed paper is underway.

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Harjeet

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1/ I’ve lost a lot of weight over the past couple of years and been asked a lot about the story. Here goes, tl;dr - starting a company was bad for my health and took me a while to get it back.

2/ During the first two years of starting @triple_byte. I neglected my health. Gained 32lbs and went from a BMI of 27 (overweight) to 32 (obese). It took me another 2 years to find a way to get it back. This is a graph of my weight over the first 2 years.

3/ It was easy to identify the behaviors. I wasn’t exercising, eating more (100% takeout/delivery) and drinking more. Changing the behaviors wasn’t easy. I tried shouting at myself (eat less! exercise more!) and various diets (eat anything, just no carbs). Nothing worked.

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Nathan Baschez

~ Ten Podcasting Predictions ~ (I briefly worked at Gimlet but have no inside information, am just a curious observer) Thread:

1) They'll make it easy for anyone to create audio ads using Anchor's technology and build targeting tools similar to Facebook

2b) This basically mirrors what happened with Facebook and web publishers

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Sindre Sorhus

@sindresorhus •

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In 2018, I made my computer take a screenshot of my GitHub profile each day. Here's the result as a timelapse.

Only the contribution graph.

The whole profile.

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Bruce Fenton

@brucefenton •

1/ At my hotel I struck up a conversation with a charming woman in her 80s. She told me of her life as a PhD computer scientist in the 70s who then became a successful investor. We talked tech, free markets, privacy and the changing nature of humanity.

2/ We watch the same HBO shows, she even reads comic books. She invited us to come skiing at her log cabin and promised to make some of her famous brownies. I asked if she has Bitcoin— she said yes! She loves the idea of sound money. I was so excited at all we had in common.

3/ I asked the octogenarian how she got her Bitcoin. She said “Yep, bought some Bitcoin on an exchange then moved it to my hardware wallet. Not your keys, not your coins.” I smiled and nodded. She continued “My grandson is in high school studying to go to MIT like I did.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1- Never take any advice from someone you didn't ask for advice.

2- Never take any financial advice from someone who has to work for a living.

3- The only thing a business school professor can teach you is how to become a business school professor.

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Prof Tanja Bueltmann

Prof Tanja Bueltmann

@cliodiaspora •

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For the third time in less than a year I am sharing a worksheet on migration handed out in a school in England. This was given to Year 9 Geography students. The exercise looks at the impacts of migration, singling out Polish EU citizens. Let's have a closer look. 1/

The worksheet was presented as a case study for consideration of the effects of migration. While the worksheet does not just focus on negative impacts, they are a key concern. The top point made is the most shocking: migration does not cause racial tensions; racists do. 2/

The other points are not much better, and easily refuted by studies on migration and freedom of movement. See for example the government's MAC report. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-mac-report-eea-migration 3/

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amos 🎲 doing itch.io stuff

amos 🎲 doing itch.io stuff

@fasterthanlime •

A few things about @itchio : - we've been "by indies for indies" from the beginning, no repositioning here - we listen, and we move fast. DMs are open! - re userbase, units sold, etc: public perception lags behind. january 2019 was our best year ever, no stopping there

@itchio We've been serving a *lot* of creators + customers given our size, no external funding, and, well, principles. I'm in favor of expanding our team, accelerating our roadmap, etc - this requires resources, and we want to make extra sure the integrity of the platform is protected!

@itchio Like @Enichan said, a bunch of companies attacked similar problems a much larger budget and failed. We haven't seen explosive growth, but we've been paying our staff & operating costs for a long while. I want to keep growing, but it has to be in response to demand - can't fake it

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David Henig

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No deal advocates have no plan for no deal. Never mind the more excitable stories, the following WILL happen in a no-deal Brexit 1/

UK products will face tariffs if sold into the EU - for example cars at 10% and shoes at 8%. Some UK producers will become uncompetitive when facing these tariffs, especially compared to EU producers, and will therefore cease production 2/

UK products which require testing to be placed on the EU market will need a test carried out within the EU, a UK test will not be sufficient. This will add costs to production. 3/

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TheKellyJaye

If you agree with this, I ask you to please support this cause by signing my "We The People" .@WhiteHouse #Petition and sharing the petition with friends, and any other social media you subscribe to. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-marijuanacannabis-being-schedule-1-drug #LegalizeMarijuana #cannibis #MedicalCannabis

1/8 This was my original petition, but I exceeded character limit: "Please remove marijuana (cannabis) from the Schedule I drug classification. Schedule I drugs are subject to criminal prosecution. As of today, there are 33 that states have passed laws allowing the use of

2/8 medical marijuana. https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/qa/what-us-states-have-legalized-medical-marijuana However, government affiliated agencies such as Veterans Nursing Homes in those States do not allow it to be prescribed to patients due to its classification; use or possession of Schedule I drugs are subject to criminal

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Jordan Clifford

Jordan Clifford

There’s a lot of talk about price in crypto but it’s a lagging indicator. The best leading indicators are technology development. Here are 5 advancements in 2018 that I was particularly excited by. 1/

#1 Bulletproofs in Monero. When Monero adopted RingCT to hide transaction amounts, larger transaction sizes resulted due to range proofs, which prove that the amounts are non-negative. Bulletproofs reduce transaction size (and fees) by 80%! https://ww.getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulletproofs.html 2/

#3 The Lightning Network is live on Bitcoin mainnet. It has over 3,300 nodes with active channels and nearly $2M in capacity. The network links together IOUs across parties, creating a metaphorical bar tab where users transact and settle up later. https://medium.com/@jcliff/the-lightning-network-cf836329626b?source=friends_link 4/

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Liz England

@lizardengland •

Real answer to this: back when I was interviewing with Ubisoft and the recruiter had asked me I was a "three seas" designer and I had no idea what she meant and just flubbed around it She said 3C's and it's an Ubisoft-specific term that's very useful. Basically means game feel.

3C's stands for Character, Camera, and Controls, which are extremely important in action games. I came from Insomniac which on hindsight is hugely 3C's focused (think: traversal and combat) but just doesn't use that terminology at all.

Now I find the phrase so useful I wish it were an industry standard term (though I gather former Ubisoft employees have been pollinating other studios with it over time)

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Caris Adel

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One of my big papers last semester was on the history of neighborhood associations in #Charlottesville, and how their use of zoning laws was an extension of the other exclusionary practices they used to keep their neighborhoods wealthy and white.

I am going to create a very long thread highlighting most of what I found. The details in this are obviously very geographically specific, but it is safe to say that the practices and attitudes underlying it can be found all over the country and in the histories of other cities.

This was supposed to be a map-based racial landscape argument, and towards the end I have several maps and images to show the effects of zoning over time in black and white neighborhoods, because it was a lot of work and it looks cool, haha.

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matt blaze

So I have some news. After 14 amazing years at Penn, I'm moving to a unique new gig at Georgetown. Starting this semester, I'll be the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law, where I'll focus on interdisciplinary research and teaching that bridges CS and law/public policy.

I'm really excited about this opportunity - it was truly an offer a couldn't refuse (in a good way) to continue and grow what I think is a vitally and increasingly important intersection of two fields that need to get to know each other better.

Anyway, now I'm officially a fake law professor.

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Andrey  Azimov

Andrey  Azimov

@AndreyAzimov •

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📈 Hardcore Year (http://andreyazimov.com/open) MRR in December: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ $854 of $1,000 goal (85%) 📸 EncryptMyPhotos: $562 📗 Sheet2Site: $204 🌃 DarkModeList: $40 🎁 Patreon: $48 I have 73 days left to reach $1,000 MRR: Details in thre

The big win was with http://EncryptMyPhotos.com. It got huge MRR boost $562 https://twitter.com/AndreyAzimov/status/1075172916830978048

📗 Sheet2Site MRR has grown in last 3: - Dec: $204 (+15%) - Nov: $178 (+84%) - Oct: $97

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