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Neynar

Have to apologize in advance for bringing this up again. Boz at facebook used to talk about how "communication is the job" and I feel like the learning only gets more pronounced over time. 

Thus, PSA for all Neynar developers - *start with a low score threshold* 
unless you actually want a very small cohort of users to use your product. 

Someone with a 0.77 score contacted me yesterday and they were prevented from taking an action. As mentioned in the linked cast below, 0.7+ is top 3% of accounts on the network. It's already ~27k accounts (of 800k+ accounts) at that threshold. It's not that many users.

It might feel like your product only needs users with scores 0.9+ but that artificially restricts to ~2500 users! It's likely not what you want. Start with a low threshold and increase as needed.

If this confusion remains, we might have to change the shape of this product. Maybe next week.

https://boz.com/articles/communication-is-the-job 

TIL: if your neynar score is over 0.7 you are in the top 3% of farcasters

TIL Fiction gets armors wrong

https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with-sci-fi-body-armor/

TIL

Intel spent $50B on stock buybacks last decade and now may go bankrupt

TIL

Intel spent $50B on stock buybacks last decade and now may go bankrupt 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42302011

Why to eat plants, when you can make butter directly from coal?

Why to eat plants, when you can make butter directly from coal?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter

Cyberia, the world first Internet cafe 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-first-ever-cyber-cafe-cyberia-london/

TIL: about woodfrog

They can freeze for up to 8 months in arctic climates and then resume hopping around. 

Their adaptation causes ice to form under their skin and around organs but not inside blood vessels or organs, preventing freezing damage

TIL: about woodfrog

They can freeze for up to 8 months in arctic climates and then resume hopping around. 

Their adaptation causes ice to form under their skin and around organs but not inside blood vessels or organs, preventing freezing damage

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-secret-frozen-frogs

TIL about revert finance (for managing and compounding positions) and it seems great although I abet tried it yet

TIL How to live like a true nomad, in Mongolia

TIL How to live like a true nomad, in Mongolia

https://youtu.be/rw4LqfSnsHM?si=BV6OMTHO2bZcBZRP

TIL - Downtown Detroit has 24/7 guards dedicated to public safety

Saw a night guard in downtown Detroit and asked what time his shift ends and he said his shift ends at 6 PM but they have somebody on patrol 24/7

Inner Harbor has guards out until 9 PM so I thought it’d be around the same but I guess it’s more dangerous here

TIL How holograms work

I kind of got the math in the uni, but this video is on another level of intuition.

TIL How holograms work

I kind of got the math in the uni, but this video is on another level of intuition.

https://youtu.be/EmKQsSDlaa4?si=VqBf3nSjBUWq64F6

Food

Wait, there are white strawberries?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/white-strawberry

GM Farcaster (podcast)

https://www.youtube.com/live/zR75JzlXTXA

Today I learned that Adrienne’s definition of “completionist” is way different than mine. 

Hers: finish todo list
Mine: collect all the things once you get started

For me, NFT’s, albums, side projects

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Purple doesn’t exist.

https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/1836268556570497284?s=46&t=P5qK-aQkLbIL5aYyPgdRjQ

TIL There was no Silk Road. It was a made up story by some German.

TIL There was no Silk Road. It was a made up story by some German.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/ferdinand-mount/one-way-traffic