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Slate is a task planner that sits between a calendar and a to-do list. Tasks go on the day you actually plan to do them, no fake time blocks required, and anything not ready for a …

You should checkout Matt Stroller’s monopoly newsletter. This is basically what he is doing except uncovering a monopoly in depth takes months, not a day. Amazing work. E.g. here f…

How many of you ticked this box, thinking it would enable you to reserve with Google instead of with Chope (or any third party)? But actually it would register your for more spam.

How have I never heard about his before. This is amazingly useful.

What about creating a chatroulette for deep conversations only? Participants could rate willingness to engage in dee conversation and you would quickly only keep the right kind of …

Makes you wonder why this was not properly done 10 years ago. It’s like, on one side we pay taxes to people who build roads and maintain databases and maps of what they have built …

This. A thousand time. People need to understand this.

I think the video was accelerated (look at cars in the background or wind in trees/on grass or the occasional bird/insect). Which means the drone may not have been as fast/manœuvre…

Similarly, I really have to wonder about the externalities of having windows in office buildings. While the view they provide can be nice, windows have a real cost to productivity …

Everything you mention seems possible to replicate with 2 cameras, a few sensors (and a X years of AI/software dev). Which is the point of people saying cameras are good enough if …

After some research, it is possible to short Tether for roughly 15% borrowing fee per year. Who is with me ?

Some more of these fun photo ops: https://twitter.com/thainewsreports/status/13886984576579051...

You realize those « deep cleans » are mostly comms operations for governments to look like they are doing stuff, right? Virus live (mostly) in people, not on sidewalks. One of the …

The first nuclear explosions made us visible to alien civilizations 7 decades ago.

As someone who publishes a small software as a side-project, signing my bundles is a pain in the a*. You not only need to shell out some 100$ to stupid companies like comodo who sh…

Three questions: 1. How easy would it be to pay a container ship’s captain to do that ? 2. Can you then bet on short term commodity futures to benefits from the event significantly…

Please. He obviously meant gold or gold-backed currencies . Which indeed ended in 1971 with Breton-Wood. Let’s be kind and “assume the strongest plausible interpretation of what so…

Or more likely this is how synchronicity works: - we have 7B people on earth - at any point of time, all possible exciting among the moment are being worked on by someone - if some…

There can be such a wide range of different wines within « chardonnay » and « Shiraz » that saying one of the two is you « favorite wine » is meaningless. Hence the outcome of this…

95% of people are also unable to tell the difference between a secure properly e2e encrypted chat, and an insecure chat. Does that mean that there is no insecure and secure chat so…

It is not so much about having a team of bodyguards 24/7 with you, but about having a security team in the back office that will oversee all the details of your schedule so that yo…

If I was holding Jack Ma in captivity, I would definitely ask him to do this just for the benefits of doing insider trading on his appearances