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by cjoh 12y ago
This wasn't an "automatic price increase" unless software got really good at explaining why they were increasing prices. http://cl.ly/image/2U3l242l350p/Image%202014-12-15%20at%2012... "We are
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by cjoh 12y ago
I'm certain you're right, but surely you can see how trusting a stranger on the internet isn't really a viable option. If you're interested in getting people to use your framework, it sure would be nice if there was a d
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by cjoh 12y ago
Hmmm, you want to be able to modify and read my emails, and send emails on my behalf with my google account in order to see a demo application for your framework? I'd love to take a look at what the app can do, but I'm not sure I&
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by cjoh 12y ago
Well, except that Einstein was an actual person, and Nimrod was a mythological one.
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by cjoh 12y ago
Actually, not just money. It means that the community is able to draw in lots of talent, and the entire community is committed to the success of the community. So I'm not certain, but those high end photographs could have been taken by
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by cjoh 12y ago
It's a great community. There's not really any membership. You can just show up and live here like you live anywhere else. And should you choose to buy food from the farm, you go to market on Saturday. Or you join the CSA.
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by cjoh 12y ago
The farm is an independent organization that's funded by additional closing costs (1%) of housing transactions, and by its own revenue stream. It's now a profitable business selling produce to a lot of the restaurants in Atlanta.
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by cjoh 12y ago
Sure. If you have a job where you have to commute in every day, I can see how this wouldn't be a great place to live. But there are enough people -- especially the self-employed -- who can sustain this community it seems.
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by cjoh 12y ago
A lot of people are telecommuters -- my wife and I both work out of our home, and what matters to us more than proximity to office is proximity to airport. It's a 20 minute, no-traffic ride to a world-class airport from here. Lots of c
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by cjoh 12y ago
No, not yet. They're building a rental property very soon -- http://serenberealestate.com/?property=textile-lofts . I suspect this will start attracting some singles. But it's mostly true, you're not going to
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by cjoh 12y ago
I live in a community called Serenbe. ( http://serenbe.com ) which has taken a much different approach to suburban new urbanist development. It's built around an organic farm rather than a golf course, it's got miles of
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by cjoh 12y ago
They still charge 10x what Twilio does to send text messages.
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by cjoh 12y ago
It's useful to note that, while a country, Estonia's population is smaller than that of most large US cities (1.3mil). What can work for Estonia may not be something particularly portable to larger nation states. Still interesting
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by cjoh 12y ago
The biggest users of the open data movement are, in fact, real estate professionals. It's companies like Trulia and Estately and Zillow and what not that are actually taking open data from government and putting it to good use. It&#x27
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by cjoh 12y ago
This tells an interesting story about good "looking" but not adopted software. At a cursory glance, this looks great! All these datasets online! How wonderful. But once you start to dig a bit deeper and scratch the surface, just b
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by cjoh 12y ago
This seems to be a bit of a deep assumption, no? There are lots of advantages to home automation besides "fathers wanting to control every aspect of their families lives." The Nest Thermostat, for instance is about energy savings
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by cjoh 12y ago
What's wrong with this story is that Outbox didn't want to do the one thing that would keep it in business: make its customers fill out a form that allows a third party to accept mail on their behalf. There are plenty of businesse
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by cjoh 12y ago
It's pretty difficult. E-Filing isn't as simple as a web service. I believe that if it were to actually do the e-filing, the people who ran the e-filing would have to submit to federal background and clearance checks at those peop
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by cjoh 13y ago
While I wish people took more moral stances like this, I feel like it's nonsensical to worry about Condi Rice, and worry more about the broken incentives around the financial system that Dropbox is headed for. Goldman Sachs is a substa
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by cjoh 13y ago
"Of particular interest to us are ways to use the Internet to fix government—for example, crowdfunding social services." Aren't all social services crowdfunded?
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18F(18f.gsa.gov)
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by cjoh 13y ago
Minority set-asides aren't our exclusive purpose. We want to reform the procurement process to make it more competitive and honest. Part of that is making it so that a woman doesn't have to write an essay explaining that she'
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by cjoh 13y ago
Cool. Well, if you'd like to help out, let us know.
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by cjoh 13y ago
We did the best we could, and tried to help on it as much as the law would allow. And still do. But one cannot simply volunteer to help the government do things, as the federal advisory committee act prohibits government from accepting free
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Reps. Eshoo and Connolly just released a Technology Procurement Reform Bill(blog.dobt.co)
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by cjoh 13y ago
I get the startupland thing. The point I'm making is -- couldn't they have tried Flippa or something? Startupland isn't "valuable asset land" when it comes to folding.
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by cjoh 13y ago
Also worth pointing out that if his staff (house.gov) sent him an email (house.gov) and they all presumably use the same mail server (they do, House IT is all in house), then the tubes he's referring to were literal wires going from
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by cjoh 13y ago
The underappreciated brilliance of this quote is that it's not clear what regulated industry he doesn't understand from his quote. Is it the Internet? Transportation? Waste removal? Plumbing?
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by cjoh 13y ago
Stevens' whole quote: "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet
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by cjoh 13y ago
Is it me, or is this website subtly paying homage to Sen. Ted Stevens' famous "Series of Tubes" anti-net-neutrality speech.

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