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by jaltekruse 6y ago
Seriously, the whole article is about Signal being run by a non-profit. I don't think the rest of it was horrible but a mistake like this makes it feel like it was written time of the market reporting bots that write all of the useless
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
The Free Math Foundation | Remote | https://freemathapp.org Free Math is a flexible open source website that allows students to record step-by-step math work digitally and for teachers to grade their entire class full of assignm
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Analytics startup Dremio raises series D, reaches unicorn status(datanami.com)
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
This was reported back in August and unless the people commenting yesterday just haven't updated Windows in a while it still isn't fixed.
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
If all we can ever do is submit to our most basic instincts we will never make progress. Thinking collectively is what created civilized society and enabled the modern world. I agree that consumption has created a lot of good in the world,
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
I think the leftys, who I generally hang around and aggree with get a lot wrong about schools. We spend a lot on schools, other countries that spend a lot less get better outcomes. I mean FFS the richest country in the world with a 85% grad
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
On taxes this will forever be an evolving discussion. Hopefully with good policies over the next few decades we can even out some of the income and wealth disparities and need a smaller welfare state. When that happens I'm all for tax
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
Absolutely, there are certainly ways to put on a show like you're helping people and not really care. Finding those people is harder than the Yacht idiots, but that's why we have watchdogs for public charities and can make laws re
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
Totally agree, but I believe anyone who has lots of money, and wants to defend they have money because they are smart and successful should realize that merely being a consumer isn't a very impactful way to contribute to society. Using
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
I don't care how you made your money, hoarding it should be looked down on. Greed is bad, we don't need to make things illegal, but I sure as hell am going to think anyone with a privately owned Yacht is a little bit worse of a pe
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by jaltekruse 6y ago
There definitely is a line to be careful with, but I do think this is the vast majority of what is happening with most social justice movements today. Black Lives Matter is not fighting for cops to shoot more white people to equalize the nu
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
Free Math Foundation | REMOTE | Frontend and Full-stack engineers | Currently volunteer basis Pre-funding edtech non-profit seeking early volunteers, with the opportunity to convert to a paid position when funding source is secured. This mi
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
Might be a dumb thing to post on hacker news, but I tried using the word boid or boids in Scrabble and my competitive wife wouldn't let me because it wasn't in the dictionary. It fit so well too!
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
Absolutely agree, if you can't represent some of your resources in it and have any idea if you'll be able to spend it somewhere near at the value you put in at, there's just no incentive to use it as a means of exchange. Kind
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
I still assume it is possible and likely that something like cryptocurrency will eventually become incredibly valuable, but I see that happening only when technical and social hurdles are overcome to make it as widespread and scalable as th
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
I still assume it is possible and likely that something like cryptocurrency will eventually become incredibly valuable, but I see that happening only when technical and social hurdles are overcome to make it as widespread and scalable as th
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
Might be able to replace the salt with something like fertilizer beads.
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
That I did, I thought the map shown was next to his was one he saw before he started his project.
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
I should have read more carefully, I didn't realize that the map he was frustrated with wasn't the one shown on the article. I do then agree that it looks like they are claiming copyright after copying his work which is definitely
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
Agree on most points here, but the article I think does some damage to any claim to "clean room" approach. He saw the one map and thought he could improve it. The map is all there is, there isn't a secret underlying implement
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
I am going to go against the grain here a bit. While I do think it is dumb that publicly funded IP isn't shared under a creative commons permissive license, I do think the maps do look very similar. I'm having a little trouble fin
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by jaltekruse 7y ago
I'm not sure this is the strongest case you could make for saying this ought to be the responsibility of the government. If people can make more working than childcare costs, then they can make their own decision about how to invest th
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by jaltekruse 8y ago
Maybe the reduction of the corporate rate during the trump tax cuts? The defense of this change, was that it was going to bring home money stashed in foreign tax havens. During the bush tax cuts, there was also a tax holiday that allowed mo
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by jaltekruse 8y ago
While you certainly cannot migrate the community, I recently learned how comprehensive the import tools are for gitlab. They will import PRs, wikis and a bunch of the metadata from Github and even try to link it all up to Gitlab accounts if
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
There are several countries in Europe that give maternity/paternity leave and vacation time to all full time employees by law. The result is not a massive drop in productivity, on the contrary studies have indicated higher overall prod
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
I don't think many Americans consider how lucky we are that we have practically unlimited land compared to many industrialized nations. In Germany housing is very expensive. Homes are often passed down generations and parents move back
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
This might be a good final ending step, with a society full of code literate students, but currently we aren't anywhere near that. Students and professionals alike use math notation, and I think it is important we find ways to bridge t
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
I think this might be a way that such a project could be accelerated. Machine learning is good, but math is extremely ambiguous. Symbols are re-used and their orientation relative to other symbols changes their meaning. Some problems want
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
I completely agree with this problem. While I haven't solved the full problem you are describing, including graphs and diagrams, I think they will all fit nicely into this application model soon. The biggest problem with pens is palm r
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by jaltekruse 9y ago
Thank you!

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