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instakill··on Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
Just here to comment that AOE2 is probably the best game ever made.
instakill··on PBS SpaceTime
hard disagree. earlier content had more surface area to cover - as they get into more specific content in these latter years, of course topic delivery will get leaner
instakill··on PBS SpaceTime
problem with t90 is he sometimes gets too excited and wakes you up with his outbursts
instakill··on How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021)
I'm opposite. Aphantasia but can hear nearly perfectly in my mind's ear
instakill··on Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
alan turing has been stuck in this cafe for decades pairing with godel
instakill··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
400k is an insane amount for a laundry mat
instakill··on The most powerful people in crypto
Anyone have the list in TLDR bulletpoint form?
instakill··on The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be
In line with your (possibly misguided) thinking, I too have some amateur thoughts that are probably equally wrong: https://pawel.fyi/post/red-shift
instakill··on I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]
or The Science Asylum
instakill··on Willingness to look stupid
Good old Curningham's law
instakill··on Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism
I don't know how people are making these authenticity arguments using NFTs, because your counter-argument is spot on. Having said that, the anti-counterfeiting mechanism for physical goods like Birkin bags is exactly the use case for Vechain.
instakill··on Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
No. Just no.

Antibiotics do not treat viruses. They treat bacterial infections, which WILL mutate and evolve as you claim with overuse of antibiotics.

This does not apply in the slightest to VIRAL infections.

instakill··on Netlify Status – CDN Issues
"These customers are not taking advantage of our DNS management"

You're right. I'm using Cloudflare's DNS. I trust them more than I trust Netlify and that's just a function of their size vs Netlify's size. This response needed better wording.

instakill··on Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
Assuming the canal remains blocked for 10 - 14 days, what WSB moves would you make in the stock market given this scenario?
instakill··on Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
Do you have links to expounded, introductory writing? I'd love to look into this type of architecture and play around with other domains.
instakill··on Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
Lots of talk about federated services in this thread. Anyone have a link to a good YouTube video running through the fundamentals + any principles required to build the "hello world" version of a federated service?
instakill··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
A service that would allow users to upload their KYC info, and then provide them with unique tokens per site that can be used on 3rd party sites as nonces would be a decent way around having to verify on each site.
instakill··on What Makes Sand Soft?
Bravo!
instakill··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
hit up the AOE2 community - t90official, MembTV, Nili etc.
instakill··on Ancient Earth Globe
How can you make it stop spinning?
instakill··on Videos for learning Org Mode
As a non Emacs user, I thought this site was going to be a crash course on the best practices of building business software that caters to org clients (enterprise essentially). Gotta say, I got really excited for a moment!
instakill··on Dear Staging: We’re Done
I disagree whole-heartedly.

Personally, I have worked in an environment where staging was a pain, full of cobwebs and issues and data mismatches. I sympathize because I know how painful it can be.

But if you respect your end-users, you cannot delegate the duties of a staging environment to them.

instakill··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
Location: South Africa (GMT+2 timezone)

Remote: Yes (Have remote experience)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Not really techs, but some keywords for a ctr-f would be - UX, user research, user testing, customer success

Email: brand [DOT] magnate [at] gmail

UX designer with a particular focus on user interviews. Have previously worked extensively in various teams doing market and sentiment analysis. That includes providing insights geared toward funnel optimization and general usability, as well as reporting on trends and marketing response and reception. The majority of my clients have been market leader companies.

instakill··on My .in domain has been transferred to another registrant without notification
Which TLDs are immune to this kind of takedown request?
instakill··on Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG
Has anyone ever tripped on Ayahuasca/DMT and afterwards embraced the thought that everything they experienced was simply a hallucination or dream that they cannot actually integrate back into their regular, sober, waking life?
instakill··on Show HN: Consider Groups – Like Slack Channels for Email
Pretty neat. I love pretty much everything about the public facing site.

Some feedback during my signup:

- nothing happens after I sign up with Google. Have to reload the page.

- the onboarding video is really bad. Please re-record with better acoustics and no offense to Allie, but do a few test takes before recording the production version. It feels way too amateurish as it is.

- why is the intercom chat widget there when I'm signed in? if the point of Consider is to eliminate anxiety during email processing, adding a little icon with yet another red notification is highly counterproductive.

- I like the 'later' button on individual emails.

- the filters are neat but maybe the 'done' category should be a first class citizen.

- search needs more focus. I want to be able to search from the inbox and to use it as more of a filter than a search. Doubt my requirements are unique to me.

Good luck!

instakill··on Bullet Time
Already mentioned in this thread is the fact that for videos with high frequency comments, reading vertically scrolling text becomes impossible because they scroll too fast.

Would would be cool if video platforms allowed Reddit-style voting for 3 or 4 comments per 10/15/20 second segments that would display as bubbled up (with viewers being able to expand for more comments for the same time slot).

That would solve the issue of comment-spam overwhelming the videos, plus it would become an incentive for higher quality submissions.

instakill··on Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing
Please ELI5 federated services like these?
instakill··on Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series
1) you got the 2 mixed up, it's indica that's the in-da-couch. Sativa is the brain-high.

2) there's little evidence to prove that sativa/indica strains affect your high. The curing, drying, growing of each individual plant alters the THC-CBD-CBG ratios way more than strain or species.

instakill··on Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript
ELI5: this is an open source library. What is the pricing page on the Tanker website all about?
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