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by benrmatthews 4y ago
How is the name of the site pronounced? “Mah-wim-ball”? Google’s name was so ubiquitous it became a verb, Duck Duck Go is a smart memorable name. Mwmbl is a challenging product name, even if the .org domain name was available.
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Punctuality Is Having a Moment(nytimes.com)
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by benrmatthews 4y ago
Eye watering to you, close to a normal wage for most of the population at most nonprofits, especially in tech roles.
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by benrmatthews 4y ago
Good Here is a directory of social impact organisations at https://goodhere.org/ with a heavy lean towards organisations tackling climate change.
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How working remotely helped me climb mental health mountains(empower.agency)
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by benrmatthews 4y ago
Related, for UK-based users and being discussed on HN now: “No fixed address bank accounts” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31302310
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by benrmatthews 4y ago
UK homeless charity Centrepoint created an experience in this vein - “In their shoes”: http://centrepoint.org.uk/intheirshoes
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by benrmatthews 4y ago
Does this perpetuate the idea that companies can pollute now and simply “buy” their way out? Isn’t this especially true if a lot of carbon removal technologies are unproven, or proven at a minuscule scale of what is needed? I’m all for init
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by benrmatthews 5y ago
London has 4X top flight football (soccer) clubs that are known the world over: Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham. Paris has Paris St Germain, who currently own two of the most recent top international players on the world stage. Both c
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A man on a mission to bring back the light gun(theguardian.com)
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by benrmatthews 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to be involved with a modern secular community that aimed to become a non-religious church: Sunday Assembly. Take the best bits of religion, including purpose, structure, community, and tradition, but make it availabl
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China promises no new coal-fired power projects abroad(theguardian.com)
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Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women(vice.com)
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Tesla crash driver posted videos of himself riding without hands on wheel(theguardian.com)
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by benrmatthews 5y ago
MIT - it says on the repo
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by benrmatthews 5y ago
Care to name the alternatives you found and the one you went for (and why)?
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
Welcome to the UK! Where the government does everything it can to keep house prices afloat. See Help To Buy scheme for first-time buyers and Stamp Duty Holiday to keep the housing market going during the Covid pandemic.
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Things to Be Done (1992)(info.cern.ch)
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
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Ask HN: Do ”blue light” glasses work?
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How I learned to charge my customers(idiallo.com)
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Good Here, find social impact startups and funding(blog.goodhere.org)
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Show HN: Good Here – Find social impact startups and funding
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
In the UK, Charity Digital Trust offers free licences for charities using Office 365: https://charitydigital.org.uk/products/microsoft-365-nonprof...
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Wirecard and me: Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories(ft.com)
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
Would be happy to chat, feel free to email (see bio).
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
We’re currently going through the B Corp process and even taking the initial questionnaire is improving the social impact side of our business and helping us plan for how we can improve here. I’m sure B Corp as term suffers from the same is
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
I’ve been working for, running and volunteering for social enterprises for 12 years now. I find that “social enterprise” as a term isn’t really known by anyone outside of the social enterprise bubble, e.g. those running, funding or voluntee
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
Quick and easy to set up and integrate with our site [1] The floating tab doesn't seem to float though. It sticks to the original screen on load but doesn't move when scrolling down the page - see link for details. 1: https:&#x2F
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by benrmatthews 6y ago
The Witness is a stress-free puzzler taking place in a relaxing Iyashikei environment - and cross-platform now too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)

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