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Great tool to generate slick wikis quickly. So, if I connect a sheet to polymer then what's the output? the whole website is generated by Polymer which is then connected to a custo…

Same setup almost! I am a student, just starting to use Anki, been using Polar since it same out, will get Readwise subscription soon. Just want to integrate RM2 pdf highlights wit…

Thanks. Will keep it in mind next time.

Hey, how do you get the top tweets? Like do you especially filter those out based on no of likes/retweets? Also, do you have discover top threads of a person? Though, i think top t…

Does Duolingo have Spaced-repetition? Spaced-repetition tools like Anki are quite customizable too.

Nice anecdote. Yeah, I have realised that just like everywhere else, virtue signalling doesn't, won't work. There has to be SITG(skin in the game), incentive alignment among all pa…

from the tweet: Simple message of "plastic = bad" that can lead to complete plastic bans has potential to backfire & create larger env impacts. Because: – food packaging is importa…

Collecting data is not bad, not being transparent/untrustworthy is bad. Now, when these health deals are going on, the companies worry that G will claim data or do something nefari…

personally, I do think that Google handles user data well. some people here might get triggered, but I don't have problem with it. I am talking about the perception problem for Goo…

Is banning plastic from packaging really beneficial or not? Came across this 2 days back. https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/121521275667838566...

Yeah. I know they have, enhancing Permissions in Android, making data deletion etc more visible. And I don't think they sell data. Personally, as a student I think they've provided…

Result of not focussing on trust enough. Google is going to have more of this problem. Google really has a problem understanding the compound effects of trust and perception and de…

Read this thread. I have been noticing a lot of reporting on tech by NYT etc, is wrong, not complete. In this case, a lot of arguments are there. But, an example from the past, the…

This might be helpful. https://www.perell.com/blog/my-writing-syllabus Follow David Perell for writing inspiration. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1213894632943296516

Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks it's BS. There's been a lot of debate on Pinker's book. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/21/8635369/pinker-taleb

Correct.

Yeah. Or they would have written Developers, Developers, developers. I mean it's just a GIF link.

A request. All those new upcoming Themes. Could you at least make a video demo of them(in case they're somewhat ready) if not the date of their release, so that I keep them in mind…

If anyone wants to recommend something for beginners. Then checkout https://www.stackbit.com/ . It can even convert your existing themes b/w various SSGs (like Hugo,Jekyll). And th…

Isn't Jekyll slow for a lot of blog posts? Also,adding all those plugins for everything must slow it down. Asking you since you have 250+ posts. I had read this in a Hugo vs Jekyll…

Interesting thread with participation from : - the writer of the NYT article which triggered this debate: Charlie Warzel - Boz - Alex Stamos - Nate Silver - Adam Mosseri