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by frabcus 13y ago
This sounds like holding non-profits to higher standards than corporates. That seems a strange and grossly unfair thing to do, ultimately counterproductive to the very purpose of non-profits. Of course, when it comes to their core values yo
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by frabcus 13y ago
It's always pretty hot! Some still around - like Kapow, Connotate, Mozenda, ScraperWiki (which I run). Some not - Needlebase. Portia is more interesting because it is an open source scraping GUI - the GUIs tend to be very proprietary.
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by frabcus 13y ago
If you want a 5 minute video digestion of this, including who Stafford Beer is, I gave a lightning talk at Liverpool Ignite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkxvVOm01g
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by frabcus 13y ago
Excellent question! I've several times been told to make git aliases. I'm very reluctant to, because I know in practice different people and different machines will have different aliases, making a friction on collaboration and kn
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by frabcus 13y ago
What algorithms might do better than this minimax? I've just read all the comments and there are no suggestions...
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by frabcus 13y ago
Other cryptocurrencies use "proof of stake" instead of "proof of work". Notably, Peercoin. This doesn't use energy. It's quite possible at some point that one of those will supersede Bitcoin, and/or Bitcoi
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ScraperWiki's values and how to brainstorm your organisation's values(blog.scraperwiki.com)
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by frabcus 13y ago
Of course we can! It looked like Internet Explorer was a permanent browser monopoly just over a decade ago. The Spread Firefox campaign - a crowd marketing campaign - fixed that. Combined, of course with a well made browser. The result was
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Skills you need to get product/market fit, all in a line(flourish.org)
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by frabcus 13y ago
The NSA is only one fear - there are other actors you'd expect to be doing similar things. e.g. Chinese, mafia. Using things like Blackphone can potentially increase the cost of anyone doing this kind of spying, to vastly reduce who wi
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by frabcus 13y ago
It took me ages to find "More | Settings | Region" to skew DuckDuckGo results to a different country.
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by frabcus 13y ago
I'd recommend gfshare as part of that solution - it's used by Debian developers for their core server keys. We interviewed the founder at http://redecentralize.org/interviews/2014/01/02/10-danie
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by frabcus 13y ago
There's the additional benefit that nobody owns BitCoin, so every corporation that doesn't own a payment system can collectively back it as a standard. Think the Internet, vs. all the proprietary networks at the same time (Microso
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by frabcus 13y ago
Somebody would own the stock market, and they could choose not to allow this.
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by frabcus 13y ago
You could make it easier to buy shares from abroad. I tried to buy NZ stock exchange shares in the UK, and my broker didn't cover it. Not sure what the situation with Australian ones is. But basically, the more brokers abroad that can
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by frabcus 13y ago
I'm a statist, and I like Bitcoin. In particular, I think a mixed economy half run by the state, half free markets works pretty well. There is no contradiction between Bitcoin and the existence of a state. There are lots of ways of reg
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by frabcus 13y ago
It's pretty clear that the hydrogen bomb is, in the sense you give, "immoral". Sure, you can come up with complex, hypothetical scenarios where it has value, but fundamentally it has but one purpose, which is to murder millio
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by frabcus 13y ago
My dad died in the mid-1980s from type 1 diabetes, when I was a child. Literally, because it was hard to take blood samples to monitor glucose and inject the right amount of insulin. I'm told that with modern equipment (am guessing the
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by frabcus 13y ago
Lua was made by three academics at a university in Brazil. I consider it more than marginally popular (particular in computer games).
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by frabcus 13y ago
That's not what's going on - it's a PR battle about what the story about Amazon is on Cyber Monday. Is it anti-competitively avoiding tax, poor working conditions, or drones?
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by frabcus 13y ago
The important part is at the end: "Bezos' neat trick has knocked several real stories about Amazon out of the way. Last week's Panorama investigation into Amazon's working and hiring practices, suggesting that the site&#
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by frabcus 13y ago
The answer is complicated, because the law isn't shaken out yet. Doubt it will be for centuries. I've written "Is scraping legal?" here, with details, and my own view morally. https://blog.scraperwiki.com&#x2F
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Salt Cloud is a public cloud provisioning tool(salt-cloud.readthedocs.org)
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Why is it so difficult/expensive to make your own clothes (or have them made)?(chezskud.com)
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by frabcus 13y ago
He definitely did - for example, Apple banned several cartoonists back in 2010. http://gawker.com/5524983/cartoons-banned-by-apple-a-gallery...
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Bruce Sterling NEXT13 - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption(youtube.com)
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by frabcus 13y ago
Thanks for this comment - it's much better and clearer than the grandparent at explaining what Google are doing. All the hard work on Android is much appreciated - I'm really glad Apple didn't gain a monopoly.
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by frabcus 13y ago
Sorry if you find it obnoxious - I was trying to avoid picky, semantic arguments about individual sentences by explaining what was happening at a higher level. For the record, I'm specifically not accusing DannyBee of dishonesty. The
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by frabcus 13y ago
Just to point out to readers that DannyBee works for Google (reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658276 ) DannyBee - have you read Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall ( http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Mazes
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by frabcus 13y ago
ScraperWiki in Liverpool, UK We're hiring a data scientist! https://blog.scraperwiki.com/jobs/swjob10/ If you hear news of a new dataset on the web, the GP prescribing data, or the catalogue of the Science Mu

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