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New comment by villasv in "Bach’s Cantata Calendar"

villasv — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:42:20 +0000

There’s one about a lady addicted to coffee

New comment by villasv in "Andy Bromberg, CEO of Eco, details how Pebble (YC W22) copied them word for word"

villasv — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:53:02 +0000

The card is just the gateway. All of these startups eventually expand into more profitable products later on.

As a customer, it’s just a matter of trying something modern - which should mean a better digital-first experience, but not always.

New comment by villasv in "Reddit files to go public"

villasv — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:52:55 +0000

Moderators have always been working for "free" (or for their own reasons, there are monetized subs).

The fact that Reddit is public or private doesn't change a thing. Why would working for free for a privately owned company would be easier on the mind? Do you prefer to be explored by a few wealthy individuals rather than the whole open market?

New comment by villasv in "How do you fix a stroad?"

villasv — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:34:22 +0000

This has always been the drama of urbanism. Only a minority is pushing for it, while the rest furiously resist thanks to years of car-centric propaganda (and vested interests).

New comment by villasv in "Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon"

villasv — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:12:51 +0000

And are regretting that they didn’t, and are considering something analogous

New comment by villasv in "What I learned from teaching the children of the 1%"

villasv — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 22:13:10 +0000

If I had a dollar every time this Williams Group study is brought up... I'd have no trouble making my descendants permanently rich!

Funnily enough, that consultancy offers the service of fixing that problem, so I guess de authors of the study won't have any issues with that either.

New comment by villasv in "What I learned from teaching the children of the 1%"

villasv — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 20:32:54 +0000

Sounds very cool and inspiring, but we’re talking about rich people.

Rich people historically have been able to just stay rich whatever happens. Sometimes a little less rich, sometimes much richer. A few notable exceptions, but then again… raising kids to aim for “epoch changing discoveries” is just a silly overblown expectation.

New comment by villasv in "What I learned from teaching the children of the 1%"

villasv — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:36:16 +0000

Rich parents don’t want epoch changing discoveries, they want good wealth management.

New comment by villasv in "Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent"

villasv — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:49:16 +0000

I see the opposite happening. Strong currency and remote work further aggravates brain drain. 2 years of COVID has already impacted terribly the tech startup ecosystem in Brazil. Well, at least in terms of talent. At least, VC money is even more abundant now if you're raising in dollars.

New comment by villasv in "AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime"

villasv — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:04:54 +0000

Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch

New comment by villasv in "Love seems like a high priority"

villasv — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:30:28 +0000

Because they want to.

New comment by villasv in "When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost"

villasv — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:58:46 +0000

I’m enjoying it like I enjoyed Black Mirror. Science fiction is very hard to worldbuild right, so often the science minded audience has to turn a blind eye to a few things and think in terms of metaphors.

Humanity traveling faster than light? Check. Woman using stupid bras? Check. Radar that maps entire cave? Check. It doesn’t flag a creature 5m ahead? Check.

For many, these details are unbearable plot holes. Watching science fiction require you to be able to skip these and focus on the story (girl in love, sucking at survival sim).

New comment by villasv in "Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?"

villasv — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 03:33:16 +0000

It's usually a matter of framing to me. Criticizing and finger-pointing is always easier than a nuanced and tradeoff-minded view. It is also easier to engage people with negative feelings, so much of the media/Internet follows the same path.

Reality is boring: the bad parts of whatever are usually there for a reason, be it historical or goalposts that moved over time or lack of information/time/resources in general available at the critical point in time. But going through the gritty details of how the bad came to be is tedious work. You can sound just as smart for pointing out what's wrong and you can sound brilliant by signaling that imperfections make you angry.

It's just a bad habit for thought workers that you can overcome with attention and deliberate practice.

New comment by villasv in "Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss"

villasv — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 20:32:38 +0000

https://archive.md/dylwy

New comment by villasv in "Remove the Notch"

villasv — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:00:28 +0000

It doesn't become useless though, the menubar is still there. It just makes the menubar black so the notch is less noticeable.

New comment by villasv in "An interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse"

villasv — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:20:01 +0000

He won mobile. He didn’t have to build phones to dominate mobile advertising. Facebook was a great beneficiary of mobile adoption and that’s why we’ve been seeing Apple attack their business model.

New comment by villasv in "An interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse"

villasv — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:18:21 +0000

Yes, that’s how Ben himself says it in his podcasts

New comment by villasv in "Sequoia Productive Capital"

villasv — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:36:27 +0000

TL;DR venture capital is becoming regular capital because tech companies keep growing fast well after the IPO; “the next big thing” is not coming on the short term, just more techy companies surfing VC money and more growth for tech companies; the current cycle is not yet ripe for disruption.

New comment by villasv in "YouTube Removes Bolsonaro's Lying About Covid Vaccine, Suspends for 1 Week"

villasv — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:49:25 +0000

Same news, from a better known and local source (in PT_BR):

https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2021/10/25/youtube-l...

New comment by villasv in "Ask HN: I keep forgetting the new habits I'm trying to form"

villasv — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:22:17 +0000

The first habit you need is journaling. The NoOp journal (which requires no further habits) would be gratitude journal or dream journal if you’re able to consistently remember them. What matters is that you make it daily.

Then, any other habit becomes easier to incorporate once you talk about it every time you journal. My favorite journaling method is the Theme System by Cortex (Myke and CGP).