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by jlcx 13y ago
I'm interested in seeing how crowdfunding might work for projects traditionally funded by taxation. One example: http://neighbor.ly
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by jlcx 13y ago
Since commenters have already mentioned Tor, Freenet, Twister, and Tim Berners-Lee's idea of re-decentralizing the web: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
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by jlcx 13y ago
It makes sense to try to get what benefit you can out of all criticism, but I think Jeff is still right that critics should try to keep it constructive.
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by jlcx 13y ago
Something like this, but for cancer? Here you go: http://www.indysci.org/project-marilyn.html
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by jlcx 13y ago
Good luck with your relaunch! I'll look for it, so I can support it again!
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by jlcx 13y ago
The fact that you can buy investments with money makes it a medium of exchange. Money is theoretically supposed to be a store of value as well, but it is not a good store of wealth, due to inflation. With current central bank policy (or a
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by jlcx 13y ago
I thought of the space pen/pencil anecdote as well, but that story isn't accurate, so I like this one better (even if it didn't actually happen).
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by jlcx 13y ago
Greater financial resources might help, but I don't think they're necessary or sufficient.
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by jlcx 13y ago
It's already happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889305
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by jlcx 13y ago
"Basic science is currently a socialist enterprise, funded by the taxpayer, with the results available to society at large." One current problem is that this is that the results are not always available to society at large; I&#x27
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by jlcx 13y ago
Yeah, I was surprised to hear so much sound coming out of my earbuds sitting on the desk.
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by jlcx 13y ago
Well, dismissing her experience based on a "freshness rating" hypothesis wouldn't be justified, but she does say that she had "used [Monster] in the past and...been successful in obtaining jobs through it."
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by jlcx 13y ago
I don't think it's accurate to say that most states require a license just to own a firearm. There are age, mental health, and criminal background restrictions, but that's not quite the same thing. Some states do have gun o
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by jlcx 13y ago
That (or any other useful work beyond just finding primes) would be great, and it's mentioned in the article (as something that cryptocurrency "newbies" commonly suggest), but the concern with all of that is efficient verific
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by jlcx 13y ago
Well, you're right about human labor being a luxury in a world of increasing automation. It seems like people are willing to pay for that, though. Until something really crazy happens, like mind uploading becoming a reality, automation wi
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by jlcx 13y ago
Good point. A lot of people assume that college sports programs always generate income for the school, but many of them lose money (though probably not the ones employing these particular coaches). I attended a school that was in the proc
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by jlcx 13y ago
I took your advice. On a related note, does anybody know how organizations promoting certain legislation decide between emphasizing calling and e-mailing? Usually I've been asked to send an email, but sometimes the same organizations that
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by jlcx 13y ago
I don't know what tzaman was saying exactly, but what I noticed was that "today" got down to one or two pixels pretty fast, while the larger and larger time periods were restricted to only another ~1000 pixels or so, so at some point you ha
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by jlcx 14y ago
Regarding gifts of approximately equal value, I've heard of women giving men "engagement watches". It seems like they're generally worth less than the rings, though.
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by jlcx 14y ago
I don't think that the "animal rights" movement "promotes clean killing as an ethical good". Sometimes these videos are released with the intent of persuading people to stop consuming meat (and perhaps even eggs and dairy). But even if th
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by jlcx 14y ago
Some private organizations have very deep pockets, and it's not just industry, as non-profits can also fund research. But if industry is biased toward applied/translational research, perhaps it's not just a focus on short-term profitabilit
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by jlcx 14y ago
Here's one that has confused me: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
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by jlcx 14y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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by jlcx 14y ago
I would guess that this is either related to user enthusiasm for more professionally developed games (explaining why Windows users aren't as excited), or a desire to support the creation of cool stuff and be part of a community around it.
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by jlcx 14y ago
That's one of my least favorite things about Apple as well. They have always been able to leverage the fact that they are the only maker of Macs, and now they additionally have these more closed designs with RAM, storage, and batteries tha
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by jlcx 14y ago
"the world’s biggest problem—the fact that comfort for the few rests on exploitation of the many" Having thrown that into this piece, I wish the author had provided some observations from her travels to back it up.
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by jlcx 14y ago
My interpretation of that would be that if we already have one of the world's harshest tax policies in that regard, why would we want to have a reputation for being even worse? Do we want to make productive foreigners even more wary of acq
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by jlcx 14y ago
Interestingly, there is an estimate of the size of a sphere containing the water of the world's seas in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea: "THE PART OF THE planet earth that the seas occupy has been assessed at 3,832,558 square myriamet
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by jlcx 14y ago
I think that's more interesting than the rest of the article. :P
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by jlcx 14y ago
"indoor treehouse, volleyball court, apiaries..." Apiaries? Google has beehives on its campus? Do Googlers like honey that much? Or do they mean aviaries?

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