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brady747on NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

In your comment, is allowlist a list of videos only they can watch? (not a list of 'age ranges' or 'channels', but actually being able to select individual videos). I was never able to get something like this out of youtube kids when I've tried it in the past.

All these services curate for kids and I want to choose what my kids watch, so they are all failing me. (I'm with the others who go with YT premium, youtube-dl, kids watch with vlc or something on a tablet).

brady747on Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS

I always think of this quote from the movie, "Body of Lies":

"Our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is as brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd"

brady747on Apple Pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store

Now, if china makes them pull shadowsocks(R) clients from the apple/app/itunes store...then we'll know they are serious. Sorry for all the vpners in china on apple, at least you can go get a cheap android device in china and monkey around and patch together a mobile vpn based solution of some sort.

brady747on Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

Agreed. I don't believe you are implying this, but neither Saul nor I intend to state their reactions are unreasonable. Merely to indicate how divergent reactions can be in different populations and how this can be utilized.

brady747on Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

Sounds like the Alinsky bit in "Rules for Radicals" about working inside and outside of people's experiences:

"....In a similar situation in Los Angeles four staff members and I were talking in front of the Biltmore Hotel when I demonstrated the same point, saying: "Look, I am holding a ten-dollar bill in my hand. I propose to walk around the Biltmore Hotel, a total of four blocks, and try to give it away. This will certainly be outside of everyone's experience. You four walk behind me and watch the faces of the people I'll approach. I am going to go up to them holding out this ten-dollar bill and say, 'Here, take this.' My guess is that everyone will back off, look confused, insulted, or fearful, and want to get away from this nut fast.

From their experience when someone approaches them he is either out to ask for instructions or to panhandle — particularly the way I'm dressed, no coat or tie."

I walked around, trying to give the ten-dollar bill away. The reactions were all "within the experiences of the people." About three of them, seeing the ten-dollar bill, spoke first — "I'm sorry. I don't have any change." Others hurried past saying, "I'm sorry, I don't have any money on me right now," as though I had been trying to get money from them instead of trying to give them money. One young woman flared up, almost screaming, "I'm not that kind of a girl and if you don't get away from here, I'll call a cop!" Another woman in her thirties snarled, "I don't come that cheap!" There was one man who stopped and said, "What kind of a con game is this?"...."

https://archive.org/stream/RulesForRadicals/RulesForRadicals...

brady747on Wanelo: The First Million Users

Except the fact that one is (most of the time): - a characteristic that is outwardly visible and generally perceivable -a characteristic upon which many societies have historically (and/or currently) organized biases around

While the other is generally related to how big one's feet are.

I would gather the submission intend to point out that this 'news event' was 'rare' and therefore worth submitting (rare because of the success, being a single founder, and being a woman in a field where (I presume) women are significantly less numerous). Anyway, looks like there were issues with the submission for some reason since it has been edited.

brady747on Wanelo: The First Million Users

Why is it not?

brady747on Screw your standing desk. How about squatting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOpb8PrrSc

and

http://www.youtube.com/blogs/mobilitywod

starting with 10 minute squat test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XwKnk16Zbs

You're welcome :) Life changing.

brady747on The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic

I don't get it. So if things are not fun we don't do them?

Is someone claiming they love to dance to the doctor to see their child in pain?

I have a newborn. He has been upset, in pain, and sick in his first 6 months - we always try to do what is best for him, our family, his health, and public health. Dancing or allowing his discomfort to heavily bias our decisions never even remotely occurred to us.

brady747on Beats Music launches

Seems that I can't 'shuffle' play my own library by genre (or 'mood'). Which makes Beats about the thousandth company to not offer this (common sense?) option. I can do this with Google Play Music (thankfully). Personally, there are plenty of ways to get 'curated' music...make it easy for me to play what I want.

Also, spent about 15 minutes on their site and still couldn't find the web player...maybe launch day issue?

Edit: found listen.beatsmusic.com (thanks to a comment here)

brady747on Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You

Now if only there was a service that would auomatically ticket all the police, fire, government, etc. officials that park illegally.

brady747on Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever

Don't worry, you are not the problem...the problem is all these morally, self righteous people doing their best to abide by the intent of the tax code even when they think the system isn't fair (or well managed)....even though you have more control in what is 'collectively decided' then they do...

brady747on Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever

Then I guess the question becomes, you appear in an article in Bloomberg about how you are using this loophole. Now what do you do?

brady747on I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy

I'm guessing critics are often historically wrong about the importance of various artists. How are you determining most of them don't take his work as value additive? Why do you accept their opinion as valuable?

Also, for reference, My wife is an Art History Professor at a highly respected liberal arts college and she takes Banksy seriously.... though she would not want to be called a critic.

Disclosure: owner of a Mr. Brainwash original

brady747on The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back

I think you have confused America with the idea of America.

brady747on The most telling part of “1984″ is the appendix

Can't speak to android but I love their site on my desktop and love the articles I have read there so far. So, I guess I might be the reason why they are still in business.

brady747on If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA?

'If Slate trusts Farhad Manjoo with their Op/Ed writing and critical thinking, why should we trust Slate with their journalism?'

//insert crappy article

I mean, why should we give interviews at all? Obviously someone's resume and a class they didn't complete is all we need to know about them.

brady747on Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

As someone who has been spending time this year learning to code, I just wanted to say this essay is EXACTLY what I have been yearning for. Thanks for putting this together.

brady747on Your Goals Are Holding You Back

Wish I knew this 12 years ago at your age:) Now that I have gone through years of becoming a more 'effective and efficient person', I agree with they key points you lay out here and really appreciate you writing it (so I can refer others to it). It seems that much modern thinking on 'how the brain works', choices, and productivity is in line with what you are talking about here (that habit forming is essential, but most people's brains find a way to get in the way (or most people let their brain find a way to get in the way)).

brady747on The Hidden Truths about Calories

It's ok, Taubes doesn't take most dietitian and nutrition researchers seriously either :) (thankfully, imo). -demagogue

brady747on Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties

Still waiting for one of these or Mog or Apple or Rdio to sign artists themselves...

brady747on My Paleo Media Diet

As I was thinking - 'local' in values and principles, it doesn't have to mean 'local' in geography. :)

brady747on Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

Thanks for posting this.

brady747on Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more

I'm not on a mac but good luck, I've been waiting for someone to do something like this or similar for a while. For those people looking at alternatives I recently found and am enjoying - tomahawk-player.org

brady747on ReelSurfer (YC S12) Lets You Clip And Share Video From Any Website

YAY! Hopefully this fills the void left in my life after the loss of getspool.com...now if only I can cache on my android for viewing on the go..... good luck with reelsurfer

brady747on A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

I think the more interesting theory (Gary Taubes's I believe) is that most of us have the causation backwards. People are eating 'all this food we have' because they are obese, not that their obesity is caused because they ate all that food.

brady747on A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

You are right, but he didn't say he was arguing in his comment, he said he would. :)

brady747on Sugar 50x more potent than total calories in explaining diabetes [video]

Well, it is important to note that society has often been incorrect about what things are healthy or not; so I think one should always be careful about the way things are 'considered' (not that I am arguing against fruit). If you check out some of Dr. Lustig's other work you will see he states fiber is the main reason fruit is not as 'dangerous' as fructose outside of fruit. Obviously all fruits are not the same either (in terms of amount of fructose and other characteristics).

brady747on Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5

Of relevant note: I believe Joe Rogan's next special (late April I think) is also going to be released in the Louis CK $5 methodology

brady747on The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

...remembering my favorite scene in Good Will Hunting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

hold out for something better ;)