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by chippy 8y ago
I suspect one factor is that the many British people trust in the secret ballot and the old democratic system of voting to change things. So, as long as they can vote secretly, and vote in the people they want, the system will correct itsel
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Map Compare(tools.geofabrik.de)
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Not Yours, OpenStreetMap(openstreetmap.org)
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OSM Viewer in Free Pascal for Amiga / PowerPC(blog.alb42.de)
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by chippy 8y ago
Do PWA's allow adblock / tracking protection / additional useful addons to run?
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by chippy 8y ago
I don't spend it on anything different. I save the money.
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Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss(jacobinmag.com)
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by chippy 9y ago
The <div class="top-shadow"> covers the scroll bar at the top of the browser window (in Firefox) effectively rendering the scroll bar disabled for the top 1/3 of the window. Additionally, page down and space keys are di
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How DevelopmentSeed Improves OpenStreetMap(developmentseed.org)
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Ask HN: Are there websites that use the Pay What You Like model?
2 points by chippy 9y ago|1 comments
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Un-Liberty and the Problem of Hyper-Liberalism(the-tls.co.uk)
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by chippy 9y ago
For the UK, the main criteria is latitude. It's only next month in April that, even when it's sunny, people in the UK can start to get vitamin D from the Sun. (The UK is at the same latitude as Vancouver)
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by chippy 9y ago
It literally says this: "in the US, copyright protection for works published prior to 1978 is based on the number of years since publication. " Did they edit the page since you posted your comment 18 hours ago?
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by chippy 9y ago
Interesting. The lawsuit only has a couple of screenshots of emails which relate to one manager, but no screenshots of emails which relate to the wider organisational allegations. The factual allegations in the lawsuit mention several times
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by chippy 9y ago
The lawsuit makes interesting reading: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391847-18-CIV-00442...
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by chippy 9y ago
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391847-18-CIV-00442... It appears it was more than one. Possibly it was two.
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by chippy 9y ago
You can submit research proposals to Twitter about this commitment, and get funding for it. (I think they are after peer review research level proposals, rather than "ban $politician") https://blog.twitter.com/offi
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What are the Indicators of Healthy Social Media?(cortico.ai)
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by chippy 9y ago
Well, if Facebook were able to change the news feed to focus more on friends and family and away from their $-cow companies and advertisers, then maybe Twitter can change.
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Is the internet actually benefiting the music industry?(newstatesman.com)
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by chippy 9y ago
BlockDocs BlocDoc
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by chippy 9y ago
edit: https://steemit.com/faq.html#How_does_Steemit_work might be better. "Every day, the Steem blockchain mints new STEEM tokens and adds them to a community's "rewards pool". These tokens are then awa
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by chippy 9y ago
"The purpose of Pinker’s laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side of history”."
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by chippy 9y ago
Can someone explain what this does? Like, what should a user expect to see when visiting the application, and what a developer could expect to make developing this application further? I see a "gas" and a "gasprice" used
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by chippy 9y ago
When I am touring the USA, (i.e. as a tourist) and enter a cafe and it's full of people heads down, earphones in, working, I walk out. It's not a nice space to be in. Even with music in the cafe, there is not the shared music in t
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Lauri Love case: Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal(bbc.co.uk)
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Surveillance Map – Yale Privacy Lab(privacylab.yale.edu)
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by chippy 9y ago
Yes, I don't think that view was expressed in Gray's article about Pinker. But I imagine that there could be an implication that "if the data shows the world is improving, it always will do, progress happens one way and is al
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John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war (2015)(theguardian.com)
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by chippy 9y ago
The British philosopher John Gray is a good counterpart to Pinker's idea of progress. He focuses on the myths of progress, civilisation and freedom. This is his response to Pinker: https://www.theguardian.com/books&#x2F

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