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by ForrestN 11y ago
Our most famous project is called Contemporary Art Daily, but our most ambitious, new project is called Contemporary Art Quarterly. The organization is called Contemporary Art Group. We're generating $250k of income, a bit more than ou
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I founded a small nonprofit (~$250k budget this year for underpaid staff of me+3 art types) that serves an annual audience of 1 million unique visitors for the last few years with hi-res documentation of contemporary art; we are nearly ubiq
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Admittedly naive question: if the advantage of having Google Sheets store the data is that you can use the Sheets editor when you want to, could something like Sheetsu store the data separately, much faster, for the API, and then just sync
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It appears that the current hardware isn't capable of running most of the key features of the new OS.
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I assume the pitch wasn't "we're going to make a sandwich-making machine," but rather "we're going to automate food production and revolutionize the world economy." If I understand correctly, the intended
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Clearly those people are well-clear of the minimum standards we generally apply to full-time workers. There's a reason we've collectively decided that companies can't just call their employees contractors and screw them over:
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Their core point was predicated on the assumption that I responded to, that being happy to have a certain job is incompatible with being mistreated. Some drivers are happy with Uber but that doesn't mean that Uber is treating them as w
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by ForrestN 11y ago
This argument, that it's super easy to find any kind of work you want, is totally disconnected from the reality of these people's lives. Throughout history we've collectively decided that poor people can and should be protect
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Obama Wants the US to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer(wired.com)
4 points by ForrestN 11y ago|0 comments
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Briefly: the NYT has no true peers, which is why it's called "The Paper of Record." Nationally, globally and locally, it plays an indispensable civic role, to say nothing of its value qua "content on the internet."
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On my birthday in April, my partner Andrew proposed to me in a Minion mascot costume, handing me a solid gold Ring of Power from Lord of the Rings, which was set into a Chicken McNugget, while a live vocalist sang "I Say a Little Praye
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I think war is pretty desensitized, at least in the US, already. The military is so disconnected from the general public that there's no difference— if we hear that X civilians were killed by a drone or that X civilians were killed fro
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I think the ethical arguments and the practical arguments about how other policies could be changed once basic income is implemented are more than enough reason to vote yes. But all of that is ultimately moot: the most important reason why
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Programming with toys and magic should be relished, not scorned(signalvnoise.com)
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Do you have an Apple Watch? Is this review based on your experiences using it for some time? I think in practice some of your guesses about notifications and interruption are proving wrong for most people because of the phenomenology of the
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by ForrestN 12y ago
Have you had a chance to use the watch yet? This level of fine-grained criticism, which is about the phenomenology of using the watch, feels baseless unless you're one of the people who've been giving a review unit and have been u
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by ForrestN 12y ago
Replace these watch interactions with the less recent technology of "passing notes." I don't think the character in Gruber's story would have walked up to her and given her a kiss on the cheek if not for the watch standi
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by ForrestN 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote is fine, we're based in Chicago if you want to meet up in person, mainly using PHP/MySQL in various forms. I run a small not-for-profit that does all of its work online in the field of Contemporary Art.
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I'm not saying I have an opinion on whatever mysterious thing happened behind closed doors at Mozilla; I don't know or care about the specific dynamics of that case. But the tendency to turn this into a question of political prefe
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We've seen how separate but equal plays out.
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The premise that fundamental rights for minorities is or could be the subject of reasonable political debate is preposterous and disturbing. The cause he donated to was not merely "conservative" and was not decried because it was
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I am incredibly grateful to Cook for this, not least because of how it will affect young gay people. When I was a child, I felt generally good about myself. I was reasonably smart, well-spoken, curious, and so on, and I wanted to do somethi
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by ForrestN 12y ago
I have been thinking recently about hiring an assistant, and this solves one of the main reasons why. Working with dictation to send e-mail allows for a different kind of tab-less focus, and makes it easier to deal with one mail at a time.
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From someone who is not a farmer and doesn't know so much about this, for example could we grow vegetables and feed them to humans directly, rather than feeding grains to cattle?
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Security Trade-Offs(daringfireball.net)
8 points by ForrestN 12y ago|0 comments
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Big news for Highrise(signalvnoise.com)
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Freshly Pressed: Harry Holly Helped Make the Fast Food Hamburger Possible(thedistance.com)
20 points by ForrestN 12y ago|1 comments
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Not too weird at all! Enlightening, generous, and gratefully received here. Difference is not something our society, and it seems most societies, handle well. Here's hoping a better line is found between empowering and transforming.
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I understand, these are all interesting points. But neither explains the anxiety; if everyone is happy with current service, why would the unions even care? Why aren't they confident that the service will fail on its own?
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This is very interesting, thank you for the perspective. Clearly it must be somewhat popular if the government feels it necessary to step in and stop them. Is that assumption wrong?

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