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by bahro 11y ago
On a broader scale, how can we measure and understand happiness/quality of life? It is difficult to improve on factors that cannot be measured -- if the goal of technology is to improve quality of life (which I believe it is), then we
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by bahro 11y ago
Related to the basic income project -- questions about the societal impact of technology that the technology or business sector might be hesitant to investigate themselves. For example, how do social networks, targeted advertising, etc. imp
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by bahro 11y ago
I believe that one of the reasons that it looks strange to us is that the image is captured using a "push broom scanner," where the satellite captures one line of the image at a time as it flies above the Earth, so the usual rules
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by bahro 11y ago
They do, a little bit, though.
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by bahro 11y ago
In Los Altos, Brandon Williams crams 14 tenants into a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house -- where monthly rates for a bed start at $1,000. He leases the bungalow from a Chinese venture capitalist for about $6,800, which he can more than dou
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Show HN: One dot for every person in San Francisco, colored by language(subject.space)
1 points by bahro 11y ago|0 comments
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by bahro 11y ago
Some obscure gems in here! I particularly enjoyed The Sound of the Dialup: http://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png
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Projects from the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon West(stupidhackathon.github.io)
97 points by bahro 11y ago|12 comments
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by bahro 11y ago
The Humboldt State map that is linked is pretty seriously flawed -- because there is a data point for each county, and it is displayed as a heatmap, what the visualization is really showing is county density in the United States.
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by bahro 11y ago
Nice interface, but it shows me a lot of out-of-date prices. Mind sharing any details about how price trends are estimated?