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maneesh

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Founder/CEO of Pavlok, human behavior trainer / wearable smart dog shock collar for humans.

https://instagram.com/maneesh https://twitter.com/maneesh http://pavlok.com

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maneesh··on Young people are lonelier than ever
Throughout history — until even today in fact - the majority of marriages have been arranged.

“According to a 2012 study by Statistic Brain, 53.25% of marriages are arranged worldwide. The global divorce rate for arranged marriages was 6.3%”

http://www.statisticbrain.com/arranged-marriage-statistics/

maneesh··on Useful Self-Improvement Interventions (2013)
biased i am, but you can use pavlok to #1 automate awareness with a vibration, based on hand motion, and #2 snap out and reduce automatic habits with the electric shock. Usually takes about 3-5 days for our knuckle cracking users (and smokers) to quit for good
maneesh··on Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
Brilliant. Is the code public?
maneesh··on QEMU 7.0
Key-Moo for me… am I horribly wrong?
maneesh··on Netflix shares drop 26% after it loses 200K subscribers
Check out fmovies.to (definitely use ublock you’ve been warned)
maneesh··on Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
Zapier does allow python and JavaScript code to be run as a step in zaps.
maneesh··on Show HN: Coolify v2 – Open-source and self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative
Hello, big fan of dokku and your work.

Docker-compose was a limiting factor for me as well. I am seeing more and more projects that I deploy --- maybe 25 of the 50 I deploy a month -- using docker-compose.

I would love a simple docker-compose plugin, or a way to deploy with compose (I'd be okay if it gave a warning that 'may cause potential issues etc etc').

Do you have any resources on how to write plugins for dokku?

Again, I am extremely impressed by dokku and a big fan. I think a significant amount of your users would benefit from some way to use docker-compose. Would love to contribute.

Can't wait to see future releases!

maneesh··on Moving money internationally
People have been saying "crypto is useless" for wayyy longer than the time since NFTs were first popularized (which didn't become a mainstream term until 2020/2021).
maneesh··on Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/16/busi...
maneesh··on My work routine: plan, do, learn loops
When I'm about to travel or no I'm about to go through some experience that is likely to break my habit loops, are usually set a monetary bed with a friend. I call this the bet switch mechanism: By setting up bet and being held accountable, I'm able to change the way my brain thinks about the habit and always stick through over the critical period of environment change.

I wrote about it a long time ago on my old blog when I first started using it, and dug up the link. Sorry for broken images, etc:

https://hackthesystem.com/blog/the-bet-switch-mechanism-the-...

maneesh··on OpenSea valued at $13.3B in new round of venture funding
Well to be fair, club house is dying and opensea is growing
maneesh··on Challenge HN: Convince an ancient Greek that you are from the future
Easy. I'd just work through everything on this time travel guide I carry in my wallet. I'm always prepared.

https://boingboing.net/filesroot/201001131242.jpg

From this fantastic book

https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Strand...

maneesh··on The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (2015)
My man
maneesh··on Companies that had successful pivots
I agree that Netflix moving from dvds to streaming could be argued as an evolution instead of a pivot, but I would argue that moving from streaming and delivering others’ content to producing their own content was a very significant shift worthy of being called a pivot.
maneesh··on Companies that had successful pivots
Netflix still runs a dvd rental business, with a much higher offering of titles (less content restriction than with streaming)
maneesh··on Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
Yes, I think op is conflating the terms of apology and failure in this instance.
maneesh··on Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?
By far, The Program Audio Series has been my favorite podcast of all time. It's a dys/u/topian story of a world where money, god, tech, and society all merge together into one, told in a very interesting format.

It's so good that I reached out to the creator and hired him haha.

He had a very interesting episode about humanity that was my favorite episode of the year: https://www.programaudioseries.com/19-abandonware/

As a disclaimer, I sponsored this episode --- but only because it's awesome.

maneesh··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Setapp.com is awesome for Mac users Soyoustart for fair priced bare metal
maneesh··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Vultr has definitely replaced my need for digitalocean
maneesh··on Incorrectly deleted from Facebook? Getting back on might take connections
Which highly regulated industry do you feel has adequate customer support staff?
maneesh··on Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
Even Florida it seems these days
maneesh··on Judge tosses $4.5B deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims
The show 'Calls' is one of the most innovative pieces of television I've seen in years.
maneesh··on Reddit files to go public
Aw yes, the system that facebook utilizes and everyone across the world loves /s
maneesh··on Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds
Turn on the audio, it's to protect the manatee anteater's identity
maneesh··on Creating personalised data stories with GPT-3
jarvis.ai is really good for this use case
maneesh··on Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did
I honestly enjoy FB ads much more than the average political content, covid posts, food pictures that I see on my timeline. I find such cool tech and software from the ads that target me.
maneesh··on Two years and 300K downloads since The Program audio series' launch on HN
Love the program so much I hired the creator! Great work @ims!
maneesh··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
Make sure to focus on the aspartame section, which doesn't show the same insulin effects as other sweeteners

It is hard to understand how aspartame influences the gut microbiota because this NNS is rapidly hydrolyzed in the small intestine. In fact, even with the ingestion of very high doses of aspartame (>200 mg/kg), no aspartame is found in the blood because of its rapid breakdown (29).

maneesh··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
Sucralose isn't aspartame...
maneesh··on The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto
This is interesting and something I hadn't thought of. Thank you.
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