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by chippy 6y ago
as an environmentalist, we've been saying this since the 70's. As an educator I'd caution against fear as a motivation for societal change, but I understand that many think that its good to cause fear and panic for the benef
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Truth in Mapping(technologyreview.com)
2 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
OSM does not fail as a product because it is not trying to be a product and it is not trying to compete! From his twitter it appears that the author is a Facebook employee. Now working (I guess) on Facebook Maps and (probably) on the Mapill
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by chippy 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20070629190421/http://www.billio... there was a reward
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What Happens When I Burn Money?(jonone100.medium.com)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
Originally we thought this would be a simple "6 degrees of separation" puzzle. You and me are connected to each other by at most six other people.
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by chippy 6y ago
It's worth highlighting that, back in 2006, social media was very new and most people didn't have any social media profiles. Both Twitter and Facebook was only launched that year. Only a handful of people had mobile phones with in
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by chippy 6y ago
I = the blog
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by chippy 6y ago
Isn't Goodreads primarily a community? Are there many pay-to-enter community websites?
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How the Simulation Argument Dampens Future Fanaticism (PDF) (2016)(longtermrisk.org)
3 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
If by open sourcing initially it hurt their competition, surely by going proprietary now it should help their competition (and FOSS geo stuff generally)?
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by chippy 6y ago
as I understand it, she was on vacation at the time
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by chippy 6y ago
This article is from a couple of days ago. The story the article is about has been posted to HN several times and I think that there are may be some relevant updates to the story since this article was published if you wish to dive in: htt
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by chippy 6y ago
past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671919
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by chippy 6y ago
I would assume that the organisation or business works as before where decisions and work happens according to some kind of existing hierarchy and that doesn't change because they have adopted video conferencing. Thus, meetings in Zoom
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by chippy 6y ago
Even worse, in Firefox, I see the title of the submission appear to be on a newline underneath the upvote arrow. The special characters are making the height of the div to be 33px http://i.imgur.com/nuA4TBe.png
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by chippy 6y ago
The assumption that memes, misinformation, fake news and cyber bullying are propagating at a higher rate than before and is a new problem could be reviewed. It's probably an extension of advertising, behaviour modification and outright
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by chippy 6y ago
It's likely that the majority of people on HN are not going to be early adopters, and that other groups will get the jab first. It depends what's more effective, as these groups are all different: do you jab first those who can mo
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by chippy 6y ago
It depends what's more effective: These groups are different: do you jab first those who can most easily spread it, those who would most easily get it or those who would most severely be impacted if they got it. I think whilst we all w
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by chippy 6y ago
Politics can be discussed here. It's that most users don't want to discuss it. They know that most political discussions turn into flame wars and they would rather not have HN be a place of flame.
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by chippy 6y ago
the user said the person who created Python had good taste, not that the language they created has it (somehow)
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by chippy 6y ago
They did add a /s to the end. The user you were replying to wrote the comment that the stupid comment was replying to!
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by chippy 6y ago
Twitter alternatives will all fail because they try to be an application for millions. They see Twitter and see the volume of users so build something for the numbers and hope that they are less bad. But Twitter and every other thing that h
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by chippy 6y ago
this is the code of conduct used on Marak's Faker js repo recently discussed here
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by chippy 6y ago
> DMCA take downs don't delete stuff stored client side on your computer Github Desktop project mangers are taking notes, don't give them ideas!
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by chippy 6y ago
> People can get the music People can rent the music, they cannot really get it. (Of course, piracy is not a way to own music legally either...)
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Previously Unpublished: The Starseed Signals by Robert Anton Wilson(hilaritaspress.com)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
forked from github/dmca
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John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'(theguardian.com)
3 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
try finding any type of contact information, a name, an email, a company name. There is nothing. What I gain is trust, without it, I have suspicion.

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