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maneeshon 'Digital natives' first generation with a lower IQ than their parents

And thus the narrative voice of Idiocracy’s intro sequence begins to speak

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

maneeshon Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

Amazon gift certificates. Like 10 at a time. They didn’t go through and I called in and gave verification that the transaction was me. They approved it. It was me.

Then they emailed saying that my account was accessed by unauthorized party and killed the account. Told me to open a new one.

maneeshon Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

Great question. If I delete my Google account, will I lose access to websites that I logged into them with? Especially if its a Gmail account, I can't even retrieve with Forgot your Pass, huh?

maneeshon Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

Amazon

maneeshon Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for

Amazon did this because I bought a bunch of gift cards. They permanently blocked my account, I lost all my audible credits and Kindle books.

No appeal, nothing.

What can I do?

maneeshon 25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

Siri is always mistaken. Alexa is pretty good.

maneeshon Pay attention to the Indian startup scene

Out of 190+ countries, America is in 3rd place for largest in the world by population with 330MM people. [0]

And if America, overnight, produced 1 billion more people?

It would still be in 3rd place.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

maneeshon 25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

Weather is also useful! Sometimes reminders, which are basically timers. But yea that's it.

maneeshon Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

E-visa has made it very easy to get back in. You need a sponsor. It's simple. Message me if you need a connect.

maneeshon Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

Moved to mexico, then getting an e-visa to head back to bali.

maneeshon 76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space

Me over here fully bald since 21 wondering what life could have been like if only

maneeshon Do Masks on Plane Flights Really Cut Your Risk of Catching Covid-19?

Don't ventless N95/KN95 masks protect both you and others?

maneeshon 100k Stars

Or in a video game where the background is an unreachable layer.

maneeshon A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

I’ve never understood why there is no ‘in-sink’ dishwasher. Many American sinks have two basins, and the second basin often contains a dish rack for drying dishes. Why not just have a top cover that you lay over the second basin, that you could close?

There’s already a drain, so the water has somewhere to go. Ideally you could use the already existing faucet to provide the water source to negate the need for a pump — just attach the faucet to a spout, and it provides the pressure to wash the dish.

Since the racks are cheap, you could fill it up, turn on the dishwasher, and then just move it to the side to dry, and swap in the empty rack to start the process all over again.

Seems so obvious to me, and cheap to build too. Am I missing something?

maneeshon Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store

Except the ability to send push notifications, which is paramount to retention and revenue

maneeshon Say goodbye to hold music

I’ve used gethuman.com as a free service for this for almost a decade now.

maneeshon We need physical audio kill switches

On, Off, Brew. On without (or after) Brew keeps it warm.

maneeshon Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)

I watch Netflix and other television speed at 1.3x - 2x, and I enjoy the experience much more than at normal speed.

Not everyone experiences information the same!

maneeshon Why do so many people want us back in the office?

We’ve sold over 100,000 devices and helped people quit smoking, wake up on time, and lose weight. You can see articles about our users in the NyTimes, Bloomberg, and more. Why such hate, for a product that helps people?

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/a-shocking-way-rea...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...

maneeshon Why do so many people want us back in the office?

Because I would have run out of money and died pretty soon after if I hadn’t left

maneeshon Why do so many people want us back in the office?

I moved out of Boston because we were spending money too quickly. I dropped non-personnel expenses by 80% by doing so....

maneeshon Why do so many people want us back in the office?

>> if your job can be done from home, it can be done from anywhere in the world

> I will call anyone's bluff who says this. Do it. Good luck. If you haven't successfully done this already, there is a reason and you know it.

Welp, I'm the CEO of a smart wearable device company (https://pavlok.com). We were based in Boston because everyone told me, and I believed you HAD to be in one place to build a startup, and DEFINITELY for a hardware startup.

Then when I finally closed the Boston office and moved to Medellin, Colombia. Then budapest. Then Berlin. Then Bali. Then Mexico.

All while doing the same for the team -- remote first, work anywhere.

Only then did we begin to explode in productivity and success.

I don't think it's true for EVERY job (tough to do janitorial cleanup from another country). But it is possible for a lot lot lot lot more than you think.

maneeshon Show HN: My fiction podcast about GPT-3 incorporating HN discussions

The Program is so freaking amazing. Huge fan.

maneeshon Relativty – An open-source VR headset

Did you notice it's missing the final 'i'?

maneeshon Neuralink Progress Update [video]

You don't think that Musk had any naysayers thinking SpaceX would fail?

maneeshon Scrollbar Blindness

Where/how?

maneeshon My startup validation process

Phone, music player, and internet communicator in a single device, that enabled worldwide communication reliably.

Just the original phone solved voicemail (with visual voicemail) once and for all in one fell swoop. It was just echelons better.

That part of the initial demo still continues to blow my mind. https://youtu.be/VQKMoT-6XSg?t=29m30s

Here’s the original introduction to the iphone: https://youtu.be/MnrJzXM7a6o?t=1m23s

maneeshon Facebook is pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings

You do know that ... fb ads are served based on off site web history and cross domain activity right?

Because this reminds me of a comment I read by someone saying that Instagram only showed photos of scantily clad women, followed by noticing his account mostly followed scantily clad women

maneeshon Show HN: Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting

Wow! How did you do this? Any tutorials or methods that would be helpful to learn how to produce something like that?

maneeshon The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all

If they donate to something you approve of, often people will excuse their failures by saying “at least the money is going to a good cause”

when I made my bets to places I don’t approve of—-well I would never lose a bet where I had money to the KKK on the line, I’ll tell you that