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andrewfelixon Reddit Strike Has Started

Some of Twitter's best content creators have given up on it. That combined with blue tick prioritisation and lack of moderation has seen it turn into a cesspit. I don't see why that doesn't happen on Reddit. Sure the people who go to discuss player trades in international sport and doom scroll dank memes will stick around, but a lot of the quality content could evaporate.

andrewfelixon Reddit Strike Has Started

Care to give an example of something of yours that was censored? I've been on Reddit for almost a decade and only seen nasty ad hominin attacks and hateful speech censored. Seen plenty of right wing misinformation be downvoted into oblivion, but never censored.

andrewfelixon Palm Phone for Minimalists

That’s without use. Talk time is a little over 3Hrs. I was interested until I read that.

andrewfelixon The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement

yep, was just abstract earlier

andrewfelixon The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement

Interesting premise. Pity I can't read the article.

andrewfelixon Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

"I don’t think my app is deceiving Google Play Store". I feel like there's more to this story.

andrewfelixon Is this Paypal experience customary?

I use it for three different storefronts. Maybe I'm an exception, but I've never had an issue with it.

andrewfelixon Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users

Why is Telegram getting so much better traction over open source alternatives such as Wire?

andrewfelixon A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

The designer suggests it was done for aesthetic reasons. More importantly it held my interest a lot longer than a typical map might have, and thus I now know more about Ancient Roman roads!

andrewfelixon Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent

From Wikipedia: "A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent."

I'm probably what you would describe as 'pro-death'. But I would never have made any of the arguments you listed.

I could just as easily frame your positions to suit my argument.

For example; 'More people make more progress faster.' (India has not made as large a contribution to modern technology as the USA)

andrewfelixon Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent

This is a bit of a straw man technique. You've framed the argument to suit your counterpoint.

andrewfelixon 3D printing produces a curious lightweight motorcycle

6kg for an ebike frame is not lightweight at all. Downhill mountain bike frame with traditional aluminium tubing weigh less and have to handle much greater forces.

andrewfelixon Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (2014)

It's presented as a really black and white argument. Marketing and a focus sales are not mutually exclusive at all.

andrewfelixon Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (2014)

The author cites examples from Stripe and Pinterest, which are actually just anecdotes around usability testing, not recruitment of users.

I would argue focusing on sales puts you at risk of narrowing your scope and broader appeal.

andrewfelixon Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]

I would love this as a screen saver.

andrewfelixon Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop

I think you could have made your point without the diatribe and profanity.

andrewfelixon The Toughest Test in Cycling

Why?

andrewfelixon The Apple Watch

>But Gruber also spends an extraordinary amount of time these days using framing devices to either draw false comparisons

This is great point, which I never considered. He consistently creates false arguments where Apple is favored.

andrewfelixon USB Typewriter

I had a similar idea, but utilizing a microphone instead that listened for the subtle tonal differences in each key strike.

To the naysayers: Typewriters have all sorts of appeal beyond visual aesthetics. Just because it doesn't appeal to you personally, does not make it a silly thing.

andrewfelixon Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts

It's interesting that a lot of people sort of sympathise with him seemingly because of the context in which he carried out the crimes.

ie. If he'd been using a landline and peso's instead of BTC and the internet we'd probably attach a completely different emotional response.

andrewfelixon To Be More Creative, Cheer Up

The article actually barely touches on positive thinking. The more important factor is divergent thinking. I suspect the article's title is designed to generate interest.

It's a stupidly misleading title.

andrewfelixon To Be More Creative, Cheer Up

Decent article. Appalling title. There was essentially only one paragraph that dealt with the importance of a positive mood on creativity. The article outlined many other more important factors.

andrewfelixon This American Life: Batman

Yes I too was interested to know how they eliminated bias. If you were told one rat was smarter than the other, surely there's a risk of influencing the interpretation of results.

andrewfelixon Google Glass sales halted

You need to elaborate. Adding the term 'Period' doesn't magically strengthen your argument.

Genuinely interested in your rationale though.

andrewfelixon Luke AFB changes refueling truck color, mitigates F-35 shutdowns

Appreciate the detailed response.

andrewfelixon Luke AFB changes refueling truck color, mitigates F-35 shutdowns

From cursory reading about the aircraft, there seems to be a lot of criticism of it. Can you summarise specifically what was factually incorrect and misguided?

The f-35 Looks like a jack of all trades, but a master of none.

andrewfelixon A Motion-Sensing Keyboard

I would have thought a single camera would achieve better fidelity than 64 proximity sensors.

andrewfelixon Meditate in front of your computer with Calm

I think it's good to have a range of comments, cynical and positive. This one raised good points and is articulated well. Personally I think the app is great, but I agree on a lot of what the OP said.

andrewfelixon Show HN: ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser

Very nice.

Confusing name, I immediately though you were using three.js