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Re:Ask HN: How did you stop drinking? on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:29AM (#33159542)
I have not drank for more than a 1000 days. This was the second attempt to completely stop drinking. For the first attempt, I didn't get past 100 days.

I have someone who holds me accountable. That individual started messaging me daily the count: 1 day without drinking, 2 days without drinking, 3 days ... Once we hit 100 days, it became 110 days without drink, 120 days without drink ...

What has helped keep the discipline:

1. Non-alcoholic beer. I second the recommendations of SkyPuncher. 2. I avoid situations where alcohol is present. 3. Friends and colleagues who don't pressure me to just have 'one drink'.

I perform stand-up comedy at clubs and bars. There's a culture of getting a free drink if you are not the head-liner and it isn't an open-mic. One way I maintain the discipline is to treat stand-up comedy like work - I need to have a clear mind to do the job and alcohol diminishes my capacity to perform.

All the best in your journey!

Re:“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:51PM (#29721219)
> Since Filipinos are the largest growth market for Axie Infinity, they must also be a major source of money flowing into the system. Instead of being a net provider of jobs and capital, it appears to just be redistributing the same wealth between Filipinos, and collecting a 4.25% cut for the service.

It seems that the source of money flowing into the system are individuals with capital to buy the incoming producing PPE-type assets (i.e., Axies).

Guilds pool capital to buy P2E assets and rent it out to scholars for a % of all income earned by the player (known as scholars in the current P2E nomenclature).

I think there are currently two acceptable ways to earn income in our society: 1. Take relatively less risk, get paid a wage. Owner of incoming producing assets bear the risk of deploying capital in such a manner. 2. Take high risk. Deploy capital to acquire assets and pay wages to others who utilize those assets to produce (unguaranteed) income for you.

P2E introduces a third: deploy capital to acquire assets, loan the assets out, and take a cut of income generated.

P2E in its current form has similarities to serfdom. The owners of Axies (and the AXS tokens) are the lords.

This is going to be a super useful tool!

How many layers would someone need to upload for each trait type? Wouldn't the number of unique NFTs that can be generated be constrained by the number of trait types and number of trait values per type?

Re:Pursuing a Business I'll Love on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:48AM (#21999289)
hello from Singapore! I've been performing standup comedy for about six years as a hobby. Anyway, last year I went to London and Berlin and I found sites like https://www.opencomedy.com/ and https://comedyinenglish.de/ super useful in finding open mic gigs to perform at. I know in the post venue owners and bookers were mentioned but wanted to highlight that for comics who travel, sites like yours are super useful to us too albeit we aren't the ones really making the money.
Re:The Man in Seat Sixty-One on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:22PM (#20989915)
I took about three and a half months. The trip can be done much faster if the goal is to reach London ASAP - I estimate about 17 days. I spent about a month in China exploring it using her High Speed Trains. Also stayed in cities for varying durations depending on the feel of the city.
Re:The Man in Seat Sixty-One on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:11AM (#20983638)
This was an amazing resource for me. i travelled from Singapore to London by land this year using buses and trains and the info on this site really helped. What I came to appreciate from this trip is that it’s possible to travel across the world using public transport.

Ask HN: What tools are you using for your site's documentation

I'm fascinated by the beautiful documentation from companies like Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs), Parse (https://www.parse.com/docs) and Filepicker (https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/web/). Beautiful in clarity and presentation. What CMS or other tools are you guys using to generate your documentation?

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Ask HN: How do you manage client projects which need lots of copy and images

For our current way of working, we share an Excel sheet which states what assets (i.e. images and copy) are needed and what's been delivered. The client will drop the files into a Dropbox folder and update the Excel spreadsheet. I'm finding this way of working inefficient because a good number of times, files are just dropped into folders with no organization, no context and no update of the...

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From my experience landing on sites that have Onswipe turned on, a fair number of these sites don't have content that look good with the Onswipe theme. The reason seems that when the owner of the site is preparing the content, they use the normal theme to see how everything looks, and it probably looks good. They can't ensure that everything looks nice with Onswipe on because most people are probably preparing content on a non touch screen browser and aren't taking the time to use an iPad to verify the content they just posted looks nice with Onswipe.

Is there a way for content owners to know how things will look on an iPad without one?

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