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amin

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My name is Amin Eftegarie.

https://eftegarie.com

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amin··on I made a tool to explore X archives from any account
Well done. But I’m getting a bug. 1 sec after it loads, the screen turns white and it says

“Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).”

amin··on Show HN: Weird Books to Read
Hah, I love this website. Thanks for sharing!
amin··on Mkbsd: Download all the wallpapers in MKBHD's "Panels" app for free
lmao
amin··on Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible (2005)
I know I will get downvoted. But Tom Cruise is right. Psychiatry is largely nonsense and the DSM book is almost arbitrarily made up by a bunch of suits. In most of the higher quality studies, antidepressants are no better than placebo. And “ADHD Does Not Exist”, that’s book title by one of the foremost ADHD psychiatrists who helped popularize it but is now calling for a reversion. The symptoms exist, not ADHD is not a real disease.
amin··on Public Work: a search engine for public domain images
It looks neat. I love the blurry background on the interface elements. Does it include images from Wikimedia Commons?

I searched for a known Wikipedia photo I had upl myself (“urinal”) but it didn’t show up on your search engine.

amin··on Is there any utility/website to archive Instagram stories?
Since this is hackernews;

if this doesn’t exist, i hope you build it, just write a simple tool that does exactly this and publish it on github.

amin··on Ask HN: Did you turn off Google activity tracking?
I know I will get downvoted here but I like to keep everything enabled. The more Google knows about me, the more relevant the ads they can serve. I hope Google’s ads will one day be as relevant as the ads I see on Facebook and Instagram.

And if I ever get falsely accused of a crime, my Google location history, combined with my Google Photos’ metadata, could serve as my alibi.

amin··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
You could share them on twitter: @InterstingHNposts

I’ll follow you.

amin··on The wealthy parents of "self made" billionaires
And $245,573 in the S&P 500 in 1995 would be worth over $2.2 million today.

This is because asset price inflation has grown at much higher rates that consumer prices (CPI).

amin··on The wealthy parents of "self made" billionaires
>“this person is mocking Bezos for turning a quite small fortune into one of the largest on the planet”

No, he didn’t do that all. He’s just providing context about the early beginnings of Amazon that allowed Bezos to built this. Bezos deserves credit for what he built but let’s not act as if he came from the gutter.

amin··on The wealthy parents of "self made" billionaires
Of course parents who are wealthy, well connected and highly educated are able to give huge advantages to their children, and that’s okay. It also makes things like Y-Combinator even more important, as it gives people with drive access to funding, connections, the right advise etc. I submitted this post because the word “self made” is stretched and overused to the point where people forget important context.
amin··on The Trusted 60-40 Investing Strategy Just Had Its Worst Year in Generations
I want to read the article but sadly my usual paywall bypasses didn’t work. So submitting it here as someone often comments a working link to the full article.
amin··on Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 2023?
I hope you release it in EPUB, which is a popular format for digital books. Like MP3 for books.

I know the following will get downvoted, but I hope you upload it to Z-Library too. Z-Library is a website that allows people to illegally download copyrighted books for free. If your book has even a tiny bit of success, it will end up there anyway.

amin··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://eftegarie.com

My personal blog with random notes, thoughts and blog posts. I don’t update it often sadly, but i like having my firstname @ my last name .com as my email address.

amin··on Ad-free Twitter with 1 line of CSS
Is there any way I could add this line to my uBlock Origin chrome extension?
amin··on Germany begins powering down its last three nuclear plants
“Decades of anti-nuclear protests in Germany, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, put pressure on successive governments to end the use of a technology that critics argue is unsafe and unsustainable.

Environmental groups planned to mark the day with celebrations outside the three reactors and rallies in major cities, including Berlin.”

It’s crazy that a country made up of seemingly smart people favor this. How did Germany evolve to be so anti-nuclear? Given the alternatives nuclear seems the way to go.

amin··on I’ve been single all my life
Any chance you could summarize the prejudice single people experience? I believe you, but it coul save hundreds of people from googling it individually.
amin··on Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The more beautiful the brochure, the more skeptical you should be.”

- popular saying amongst Dutch investors

amin··on France is now offering a €4k e-bike subsidy to people who trade in their car
A step in the right direction. But why’s the subsidy only for electronic bikes and not also regular bicycles?
amin··on The Church of Interruption (2018)
I know the COI members will downvote this, but I do not associate with people who constantly interrupt others. Because they’re often impolite in many other ways as well. I love my life not communicating with them.

And I think there’s a correlation between people who have a constant desire to assert dominance over others, and people who often interrupt. It’s like the earliest red flag for me. I know because I used to be a COI member a long time ago.

amin··on Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution
I think it’s perfect as it is. I hope you ignore the people who’ll try to pressure you into adding libraries to making it look like every other bloated webapp on the web.
amin··on Preparedness Paradox
This makes me wonder; how different would the COVID pandemic death toll have been if governments didn’t change anything? No travel bans, no lockdowns, etc.

I suspect many people would still voluntarily use masks, self-isolate, protect their eldery and take other precautions.

amin··on Body integrity identity disorder patient satisfaction after surgery (2014) [pdf]
Fascinating. This is about people who have a strong desire to have a their own (perfecly functioning) limb amputated.

It concludes: “None of the patients regretted the surgery and a change for the better was seen in almost all areas of life”.

amin··on Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
I'll probably get downvoted but this article seems highly sensationalized. It blames Facebook, while the blame should be on the hospitals who, for whatever reason, have the FB pixel code in locations where it shouldn't be.
amin··on 9-Euro-Ticket
In Luxembourg, all public transport is free for everyone. I was just there, and as a tourist, it saved me a lot of hassle not needing to figure out where and how to buy which ticket. Jump hop on any train, bus or tram :).

And yes, I understand why this wouldn't work well in other countries.

amin··on Ask HN: Teach me something new
Quantitative easing (sometimes mistaking called "money printing") isn't directly inflationary. Because when central banks buy bonds, they do not pay with normal money. Instead, they pay with a special type of money that can never enter the real economy (as to not create inflation). This special type of money are called "bank reserves". And bank reserves can only be used to 1) settle interbank transfers and 2) buy more bonds. They can never leave the loop of the banking system. So the next time you see scary looking charts showing that the total amount of money increased a lot in the last two years, keep in mind that that "money" includes bank reserves that are stuck in a closed loop. This is also why Japan, who is the king of QE and "money printing", barely has any inflation.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

amin··on Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.
amin··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
I can recommend active noise cancelling headphones. Whichever one you can afford, buy it. I do not travel without it.
amin··on Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
A media company publishing a negative article on Facebook is like Ford publishing a negative article on Tesla
amin··on Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH
lmfao.
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