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Bad Science(jacobinmag.com)
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The Case for Reparations(theatlantic.com)
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When Science Becomes News, The Facts Can Go Up In Smoke(npr.org)
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I once edited the Wikipedia entry for "boma" to add that the word (which in much of Anglophone East Africa denotes the seat of a district administration) derives from the acronym British Overseas Management Administration. I did s
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Courier: Secure News Reader from The Guardian Project(guardianproject.info)
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Could you? It seems to me that mopidy-gmusic does not have All Access support. That's according to this issue: https://github.com/hechtus/mopidy-gmusic/issues/5
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Open-Source Software for College Administrators Reaches ‘Tipping Point’(chronicle.com)
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How does figwheel compare to boot? http://github.com/tailrecursion/boot
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The Language of Silicon Valley is Slowly Poisoning Our Brains(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
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The White House Big Data and Privacy Review(whitehouse.gov)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Or maybe it's the wrong kind of shared culture, the kind that locks people into collective action dilemmas rather than helping to solve them...
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Searching for "IT" turned up some results.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Super interesting, thanks for chiming in. What is looio.org? The address doesn't resolve for me. [EDIT: it was just a typo]
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Map of IT coops in Argentina: http://www.facttic.org.ar/miembros
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by jboynyc 13y ago
I just took a look in the Genossenschaftsregister (GnR) for Munich and came across a few coops in the IT sector (e.g., http://www.7-it.de/genossenschaft/mitglied-werden.html ). Not sure if they fit your profile, but it
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by jboynyc 13y ago
> How the heck have these IT coops gotten started, then? I can't tell you on the basis of empirical knowledge of concrete cases, but in theory (e.g., Elinor Ostrom's work on the commons) you need some lower-level guarantor of t
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Checked their archive site. Looks like they are now part of fictivekin.com. Not sure if they are still a coop. http://web.archive.org/web/20130731083708/http://analog.coop...
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by jboynyc 13y ago
This list seems to have spawned the site techworkers.coop mentioned by audionerd. Good to see there's a space where people have been having this important conversation.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Ownership is one part of the model, and I think you have a point that it's more diffused in many startups. However, I'm not sure democratic control of the business is part of the startup model. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I
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by jboynyc 13y ago
The map at techworker.coop shows one in Montreal and one in Ottawa. http://www.koumbit.org/ http://brierwoodapps.com/
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Argentina is a great case. The coop movement there was the subject of a documentary called The Take (2004): http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=synopsis
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Thanks for that! They also link to this recent piece from FastCo on "the argument for worker-owned tech collectives": http://www.fastcolabs.com/3021964
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Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives?
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Since in addition to .EDU we will soon have .EDUCATION, .UNIVERSITY and .COLLEGE, Monash University was smart to just get .MONASH.
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Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall(mobile.nytimes.com)
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At Clearly Innovative, developers are hired with little practice and much passion(washingtonpost.com)
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Why we fear Google(faz.net)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Just for the record, J. Philippe Rushton, whom the op-ed draws on as a classic source of this kind of work in psychology, was a white-supremacist race "scientist" who argued, among other things, that black people have narrower hip
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Testing your CHICKEN code using the test egg(lisp-unleashed.de)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Carin Meier (the author) works for Neo, a software company with no ties to Cognitect as far as I know.

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