BecauseWeCan

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Project Unspell - Achieve perfect spelling without having to learn how to spell(indiegogo.com)
2 points by BecauseWeCan 13y ago|1 comments
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
"Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
You might enjoy Last Chance to See, from Douglas Adams. It is a tells how he traveled searching for near extinct species. It is non-technical and non-fiction, but it is a Douglas Adams book, so he explains a lot of things and makes up stori
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Uruguayan here. We have had multiple dictatorships in our short history. We know what the government is capable of, not in theory, but in our bones. We root for Snowden, because we share his pain.
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Api, please make a post expanding on these ideas. Then post it here and send some copies to international news sites, like the guardian. We need to wake up, your post would help a lot.
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
I thought that already existed, as Facebook Likes boondoggles.
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
You have three groups, those who care strongly about seeing ${badstuff}, people who don't care enough to change the default, people who care strongly about not seeing the ${badstuff}. By making it opt-out, you will get only those that
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Could you explain the connection between the first and second sentence?
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Yes. The bottleneck, as usual, is cultural. Still, I have hope. Some people refuse to touch or even be near people who aren't clean. That forces others to be clean and propagates hygiene through society. I wonder if we could do the sam
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Maybe we should start using decentralized technologies? Go back to bittorrent, tor, irc. Teach everybody to encrypt, the same way we teach them to wash their hands. And for similar reasons.
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
Weren't you taking a one month break from hacker news? http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/one-month-bre...
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
I find the comparison suggesting, but otherwise useless. All human endeavors have a political factor, but "political party" evokes something else. Many ads promise to make our lives better, yet they aren't call political.
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by BecauseWeCan 13y ago
True, but they fill a niche and they aren't scaling as much. Maybe you could have Y Combinators running in parallel.
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NASA - Setting foot on Mars by 2030(timeslive.co.za)
3 points by BecauseWeCan 13y ago|0 comments