Kinda disappointed that
@nayibbukele
went with
@bitfinex
to issue BTC bonds by El Salvador.
He should probably look into
@Bitfinexed
and why Tether/Bitfinex ought to be avoided.
Best books I read in 2020
1. Atomic Habits by
@JamesClear
“If you show up at the gym 5 days in a row—even for 2 minutes—you're casting votes for your new identity. You’re not worried about getting in shape. Youre focused on becoming the type of person who doesn’t miss workouts”
@Austen
Don't think one book does the topic a justice but following books is where I'd start:
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
I have always felt a sense of defeatism in narratives around climate change and overpopulation. This article puts it succinctly and provides a better solution.
@mwong023
@david_perell
@walkerdavide
That's even more so the reason why people would access tutoring online than in-person. Besides the stigma is only limited to western countries.
This is how you decentralize yourself:
1. Multiple residencies
2. Multiple bank accounts
3. Don’t use real name on social media
4. Avoid fiat, diversify assets in crypto and gold
5. Strong relationships with friends and family
Two rules to price a product:
1) You charge based on the value, not cost
2) The price at which customers complain but still purchase is the perfect price. (I think
@paulg
once commented this on HN)
Four countries - 🇨🇳 China, 🇮🇳 India, the 🇺🇸 US and 🇮🇩 Indonesia - are set to contribute more than half of the world's economic growth over the next five years, according to IMF forecasts.
A fiat based system will only create more inequality and let rent-seekers enjoy the benefits of capitalism and outsource the criticism to entrepreneurs.
What differentiates a good social system from a bad one is incentives.
Money is the ultimate incentive.
Therefore, gold standard is the solution to so many social problems.
@calvinfroedge
Vitacura and Lo Barnechea (more expensive than Vitacura) are excellent places to raise a family. I can't possibly recommend Santiago to anyone who is single though - boring compared to BA or CDMX.
Lately into exploring beauty as an ideal and how lack of beauty often leads to the decay of society so expect art pieces like this from this account in future
Girl Arranging Her Hair by Abbott Handerson Thayer
@brandonhli
@bchesky
@AirbnbHelp
@TaraBunch1
Same exact thing happened to me.
I was in touch with the host the whole time but when I showed up she won't open the gate.
Eventually had to book a hotel nearby. Only diff is that she did issue refund.
I am an airbnb superhost but I won't recommend it for anything serious.
@Replit
@amasad
You should introduce a concept of "tips" for bounties. Right now bounty price is fixed.
Sometimes a bounty hunter spends more time than one expected and I'd like to be able to pay a tip to compensate for extra work.
Just cancelled my
@figma
account - only a matter of time they will go Adobe on you.
Also I find that I can increasingly design interfaces directly in
@tailwindcss
and
@shadcn
while the UX interactions can be covered by
@Remotion
Do I have anyone in my circle who maintains multiple bases?
I'd love to discuss your challenges about maintaining and moving between these different bases and how you take care of insurance and other legal paperwork. DM please.
Just these 3 things will go a long way to make the experience of tourists better:
- Improve the evisa website
- Gift a sim card on arrival (like UAE)
- Support international credit cards on UPI apps (limited duration)
Let's see if
@JMilei
can do something for Argentina what
@nayibbukele
did for EL Salvador.
Latin America really needs to come out of the cycle of socialism and victimhood.
As a continent its holds enormous potential and there's plenty of room to grow.
Are there more educational websites like by
@dan_abramov2
and
@Mappletons
which focus on foundational mental models to grok a new subject?
Easily one of the best courses I have completed in the last couple of years and would like to explore more topics in
It’s an acute symptom of modernity (late-marriages, no kids, city living, secularization, materialist metaphysics) that we foolishly look to our jobs for meaning.
The most American thing in the world is to leave your home in search of a better life. A nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
Countries will continue to compete for people and talent.
No smaller country will be able to charge income tax like they do right now.
Show better governance and the right people will wanna migrate to your country.
WHY IS ERGODICITY IMPORTANT? AN EXAMPLE
My cousin was born in a mountain village in the French Alps. Like many there, he learned to ski before reading.
I am a good skier, but I remember the humiliation when I was 14 and he was 6, seeing him surpass me, swift as a bullet.
In 1956, Soviet leader Khrushchev delivered a speech denouncing Stalin's crimes. A heckler shouted "You were his colleague, why didn't you stop him?" Khrushchev barked back "Who said that?" Nobody moved a muscle. Seconds later, Khrushchev said "Now you know why I didn't stop him"
Same experience.
I uploaded all my bank statements to create a poor man's version of but GPT was unable to differentiate between comma and dot in the numbers.
Surprisingly playground was even worse at parsing PDF files than the chat interface.
Got access to GPT and not that impressed. I took the .md files from the docs of the static site generator
@quarto_pub
, and concatenated them into 10 chunks. I struggle to get correct answers.
Here are all the files I used
At some point art became from capturing timeless beauty to making a statement to elicit a reaction.
As always the incentives drove part of it. Earlier art was commissioned by benefactors but now it's about ability to standout to attract buyers.
Thrilled to share
#Nodesteaders
!
It's shaped by the hurdles I faced living across Mexico, Chile, and India. It's a call for tech folks, remote workers, and global citizens interested in multiple bases to come together. 🌐
@StewartalsopIII
JavaScript: From First Steps to Professional
Anjana Vakil on
@FrontendMasters
Starts with developer tool console where you have instant feedback and then progresses to creating files in VS Code.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss"
Sharing my thesis on "Nodesteaders": For most digital nomads, at some point, the allure of constantly moving fades, and the desire for a stable base grows.
The mysticism earlier found in religions can now be seen in technological innovations. Hard to think the future religions won’t have technology as a core idea.