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by colinmegill 5y ago
The software is entirely open source and multiple independent instances exist. Our main deployment at pol.is runs off the same docker containers available to the community. While some time ago, here's an instance that scaled to 30,000+
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Feel free to DM me on twitter if you care to elaborate and want to discuss, this is strange and I'm not sure what you're referring to. The reason we're a registered 501c3 is that the overwhelming majority of the consulting se
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Old login code, I'm assuming, but it's OSS if you want to check.
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Great question. You can see raw data from a conversation on biodiversity that took place in New Zealand in partnership with the Ministry of Conservation and hosted by an independent news organization here: https://github.com&#x2F
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Thanks, and great questions! 1. Where can I help? We have a range of volunteer opportunities for frontend and backend engineers (React/legacy Backbone.JS/D3), as well as data scientists (python / clojure). We also have a rang
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by colinmegill 5y ago
This is a solid article and entry point. A chapter of Carl Miller's Death of the Gods is one of the better narrative deep dives: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Gods-Global-Power-Grab/dp/17851... As well as Chri
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by colinmegill 5y ago
He did not.
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Correct. For smaller discussions in the 10s, or potentially 100s of participants, the limitations of randomness and no direct replies are unnecessary. They become useful assumptions given thousands and tens of thousands of participants. The
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Hi everyone! Co-founder here / AMA. We've been working on this for coming up on 10 years. We launched on HN in August of 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228974 Brief technical description: 1. produce
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by colinmegill 5y ago
Congrats! Wonderful!
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Simulating Depth of Field with Particles Using the Blurry Library(tympanus.net)
3 points by colinmegill 5y ago|1 comments
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A U.S.-built biometric system sparks concerns for Afghans(nbcnews.com)
2 points by colinmegill 5y ago|0 comments
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by colinmegill 5y ago
This post should be removed. Paper says 50 to 70% of changes , not 50 to 70% change. Here's what the paper leads with: "We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last four decades are accou
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Outfitting Folkboats(youtube.com)
2 points by colinmegill 5y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Mass Heater(youtube.com)
1 points by colinmegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by colinmegill 6y ago
RC Plane leveraging Magnus effect https://youtu.be/GAqLyyg2AHk
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Future of Video Game Design (2008)(esquire.com)
2 points by colinmegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by colinmegill 6y ago
Cosmos dedicated an episode to him
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by colinmegill 7y ago
We would be out of deer the first week.
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by colinmegill 7y ago
Same, two Google docs (one for year, one for current month). I just switched to roamresearch.com. I like it a lot.
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by colinmegill 7y ago
That's you touting your own feed, and you don't appear to be an epi scientist
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Synchronization gear(en.wikipedia.org)
54 points by colinmegill 7y ago|15 comments
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Goodbye green screens: In-camera, Real-Time VFX with Unreal Engine(youtu.be)
24 points by colinmegill 7y ago|1 comments
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by colinmegill 7y ago
CNN exists in the form suggested here. Posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798835
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Text Only CNN(lite.cnn.io)
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by colinmegill 7y ago
Agreed, this is better, though I might add ", wildfires implicated". TIL one cannot edit posts and change links, unless I am missing something. Thought I could but maybe that is before it gets votes.
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by colinmegill 7y ago
Suggest a better title and will edit!
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Fire shuts down cell towers in CA(mobile.twitter.com)
55 points by colinmegill 7y ago|32 comments
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Yahoo Groups shutdown threatens UK phone infrastructure(mobile.twitter.com)
2 points by colinmegill 7y ago|1 comments
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by colinmegill 7y ago
I worked on a bio-intensive organic farm in Washington State via https://wwoofinternational.org/ . This was one of the articles that got passed around: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?

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