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by jchrisa 12y ago
I read the whole WaPo article hoping they'd stop listing the things purchased with the funds (who cares?) and instead talk about where they got the funds and what percentage of seizures are dubious / fraudulent. The Chicago link p
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by jchrisa 12y ago
This article just came out last night, suggesting that road diets are great bang for the buck when it comes to decreasing crashes. http://bikeportland.org/2014/10/10/less-500000-three-road-di...
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by jchrisa 12y ago
There are studies suggesting that drivers give wider berth to the un-helmeted: http://www.helmets.org/walkerstudy.htm
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In Oregon the basic speed rule says that if you are going around a curve too fast to be able to stop for someone laying in the road, you are going too fast no matter what the signs say.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
It's good to see more options for mobile data. If you're interested in an open source database that handles the network for you, Couchbase Lite syncs using an Apache CouchDB compatible protocol: http://developer.couchba
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Here's a lengthy counter argument. https://libcom.org/library/flying-cars-declining-rate-profit...
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Kudos for Rethink getting into geo. GeoCouch has been a huge adoption driver for public data applications. I think the real killer mix is geo + sync (because then you can trivially share civic data). Maybe someday we'll see sync from R
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by jchrisa 12y ago
My guess is this can get really slick when we have ES6 Proxy capabilities.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Here is the link I wanted to post but it came up dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8332018 Anyway, I'm intrigued by this from a trans-humanist perspective. Delaying puberty might be an interesting strategy in
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Transgender teens become happy, healthy young adults(cbsnews.com)
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The Digital Wallet Revolution(nytimes.com)
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One deep end to jump in to philosophy here is the concept of http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervenience
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They have to keep the conversation lighthearted, or else there's a chance we might actually talk about all the real problems with taking a scientistic view of the world. That is, the crackpots are way less threatening than someone with
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Related reading on data structures that make availability easier to maintain under network partition: http://writings.quilt.org/2014/05/12/distributed-systems-and...
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Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups(ribbonfarm.com)
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Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects – The Long Now(longnow.org)
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I've been enjoying the Parrot Flower Power. It's just a sensor you stick in your plants. It's connected to a database of plants so it can give you advice based on sunlight, water, soil chemistry, and temperature, depending on
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by jchrisa 12y ago
At least in the mean time we can try as best as possible to learn from them, before their cultures are forgotten. So much of what we assume is standard operating procedure is deeply made-up. Seeing how other folks do things is a way to lear
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm really just driven to explore the implications of a radically simple data structure. So hopefully it's possible to build something that's more useful than bubble. The short term goal is just to ge
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Thanks for the downvote... patio11 if you are reading I mostly linked to the above to get your take on the idea that we can get even more subjective than transitive exchange rate finding. Maybe the Wired article is shorter: http:/&#x2
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Thanks for this! I'm half way through a quick read, and will have to read it again more slowly. I like the style of using user-stories to explain crypto. I've done something similar with a speculative web-of-trust crypto currency
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by jchrisa 12y ago
I'd trade a reasonable (15-20mph) speed limit on city streets if it meant people could blast it on the highway. It's silly to me that so much of the speed limit conversation is around highways, when really the dangerous streets ar
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I hope people are taking more than a couple of weeks. I know this is America and all, but 2 weeks?!? If I was a (male) CEO I'd definitely take more time than that, at least to set an example that people shouldn't feel like they ca
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Here is my trust profile. https://www.provetrust.com/#!/p/HJoWjhUC7JW8u9eiBVMh7E So the deployment model will be like Disqus, you just add some JS to your page?
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This project has been underway for a long time, so it's cool to see that they have support for the "Python, Java, PHP, and Go Google App Engine platforms."
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Here is a deeper look. Not quite a spec, but a step in the direction of a spec. So that folks can understand more precisely what I'm doing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0D75T4_xjMNDdMdgaeRPtNv...
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I went to a meta currency event around the time of Occupy, and it was part the inspiration that got me started. I haven't heard much from them lately.
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It won't let me reply to Volscio's comment directly. Your link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia makes me think you might enjoy this book: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/introduction
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Neat that sounds really cool. There's a team at Microsoft building essentially a p2p crypto enabled web view application container for all desktops plus Android: http://thali.cloudapp.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=

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