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by jlev 12y ago
There is already a TechCash system for making purchases with an MIT student ID. All the on-campus food vendors accept it, as well as the student bar. No need for crypto-currency, there's already a functioning local system.
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by jlev 13y ago
Folks have been doing this for years, and for cheaper, with balloons and kites. Check out the awesome work at publiclab.org, where they've mapped the gulf oil spill in 2010, pollution at the Gowanus canal, Occupy encampments. Stitch th
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by jlev 13y ago
If you still have data in Dopplr that you want out, now's a good time to migrate it to TripIt. Here's a simple script I wrote to do it. https://github.com/jlev/Dopplr2TripIt
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by jlev 13y ago
He wasn't a student, but he was definitely part of the MIT community. He was in a student group, a technical member of the W3C (housed on campus), and his father was an alum and a contractor at the Media Lab. Joi Ito, the head of the l
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by jlev 13y ago
Glad to see the HN community getting excited about this issue. In my professional capacity as the resident technologist at an activist-y non-profit, I have a few things to note: 1) Single issue organizations are quick to grow but hard to su
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by jlev 14y ago
Check out the CMS for the Pirateship, a co-working space in Somerville MA. Entirely minecraft based! http://alt.irateship.com/
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by jlev 14y ago
What exactly do they mean by a "virtual march"? Thunderclap? Really, that's what digital activism has devolved into?
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by jlev 14y ago
The London Review of Books is not "some hack's crappy blog". Check your critical thinking skills again; you might actually need a Master of Journalism to get published there.
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by jlev 14y ago
I'm a young person who works in tech in Oakland, and I don't like the young people who work in tech in SF and ride the comfortable google bus every day to their jobs in the valley. Ride public transit. Get out of your tech bubble and experi
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by jlev 14y ago
And that's why you should use the Affero GPL for web services. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html MSNBC really screwed the pooch on this one, from their initial "open source" via zipfile, to the zero-day shutdown. Not what the Knig
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by jlev 14y ago
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