drawnalong

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by drawnalong 10y ago
I'm an Afghan combat veteran in Los Angeles who has recent first hand knowledge of how to navigate the homeless-to-housing pipeline through the West LA VA, along with a great resource list of other things: transitional housing, transpo
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The principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income (2015)(medium.com)
39 points by drawnalong 10y ago|101 comments
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by drawnalong 11y ago
Jeff Bridges makes extensive use of <map> in his webpage. I am unsure if this is apocryphal, but I'm told he makes the whole site himself. jeffbridges.com
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by drawnalong 12y ago
There will always be power and profit in being able to monitor and control what people are going to do. This is a scary fact of life in the human arena. And though this is not the first time that technology has advanced so far so fast, some
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by drawnalong 12y ago
Interesting! I didn't follow the Tiny Doo story too closely but read more after you posted. Except I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying that people SHOULD be mad that we're prosecuting Brandon Duncan because of his publishe
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by drawnalong 12y ago
Often I see good critiques and discussion of Mozilla software endeavors here on HN. I rarely see much discussion about the Mozilla community at large. There was a discussion during the Eich appointment scandal, but I didn't see as much
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by drawnalong 12y ago
Can someone with a bit of knowledge help me get a grip on Mozilla's Net Neutrality plan? I'm reading through this: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2014/05/Mozilla-Pet... and the blog a
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by drawnalong 12y ago
I'll echo what is said further down; it is good to see a reasonable look into homelessness here on HN. I literally just came bsck from a vigil for a man who died in a self-lit fire in an abandoned moving truck parked in my hometown. Th
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by drawnalong 13y ago
I also spent a few months deployed in Helmand and Farah provinces in 2008. My platoon didn't go to Kajaki Dam in particular.. we saw a few little signs of what this article talks about everywhere. The guys in the line company that serv
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by drawnalong 13y ago
How much of a "market" was there in XCMDs? As in, were they commonly exchanged or reused in any sort of open-source way, or were they written in-house? I know we're talking about Myst specifically, but I wonder if there'
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by drawnalong 13y ago
As a non-programmer, I'm surprised that folks aren't talking about Myst's Hypercard/Hypertalk roots: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-t... Also, Brendan Eich was
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by drawnalong 13y ago
I'm proud of all of you who have had some hand in pushing back. Basic transparency measures are the right place to begin, and with them, a rudimentary accounting by the public can commence. There's no reason why everyone here who&
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by drawnalong 13y ago
God bless this next generation. My girlfriend is black (I'm white) and my parents are fairly fundamentalist, conservative evangelical Christians. My stepfather, as much as I love him, still comments when he can on how disgusting white