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This is really cool. I'm curious how the OP is calculating the shortest path -- recursive CTEs in Postgres? pgRouting? A graph db? I recently built an explorer UI for a cultural kn…

I'm building that functionality into https://giraf.app , and will set the fees as low as possible (aiming for a flat 4%, compared to Bandcamp's 15% on digital items and 10% on phys…

Awesome!

Dear HN, Over the last few years, I've built an app called Giraf, for sharing and discovering cultural life [0]. "Cultural life" encompasses any kind of creative work (music, books…

I use an app called Giraf, which I built [0]. My friends and I use it to share the music (and culture in other mediums, e.g. books and movies) that we've been into lately. When som…

Having passed on backing Roam Research multiple times[1], which proved to be a mistake[2], YC now funds a competitor that is quite explicitly a clone. That said, all the best to th…

An app for sharing and discovering culture of all kinds (creative works, events, and places): Giraf ( https://giraf.app )

Thanks for this excellent food for thought!

If you enjoyed this interview, I recommend you check out the book Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed ( https://www.amazon.com/Werner-Herzog-Perplexed-Conversations... ), whic…

I’d agree that theoretically the regulations could be made more complex in order to mitigate their regressive second-order effect. I believe that familiarity with the evolution of …

The cost of complying with such regulations would effectively fall on companies as a regressive tax. Which companies benefit in relative terms from a regressive tax? The already-la…

Jon Kabat-Zinn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn

+1 for Stripe Atlas support for Delaware PBCs

I'm very optimistic that we can solve this problem with better tools. That's not to deny, as others have pointed out here, that emotions drive our thinking and that a post-fact wor…

Yeah, I think that's a great idea. What I'm imagining along those lines is an interface for marking up a source text--basically, for easily turning a highlighted portion of the tex…

That's an idea! Motivating people to use the argument format has proven a challenge, since it often takes more time to break an argument down into this format than to string senten…

You've described a lot of my vision for Sequiturs ( https://sequiturs.com ). Check it out! I'd be very interested to get your feedback.

Sebald was a true genius. His writing is a journey down fascinating veins of human history and culture, and the uncanny experiences we have of these in the present. He had a profou…

Yes! I completely agree. Sequiturs is a great fit for these opinionated discussions that don't work in Stack Overflow's Q&A format. Here's an example of debating a technology choic…

Cool, thanks.

Woah. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm unable to reproduce that in Chrome or Firefox but I'll look into it. I ran the Qualys SSL test on sequiturs.com just yesterday and got an A+! EDI…

Cool. On Sequiturs each step in an argument is called a proposition; a proposition can be used in an argument as either a premise or a conclusion. Propositions are sort of the atom…

I'll pose a question to get things started: What do you think of the argument format that Sequiturs uses, namely, a series of premises and conclusions? I think this format has enor…

Creator of Sequiturs here. Very happy to receive your feedback and answer questions!