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by marquis 13y ago
If you are part of the Ushahidi team, I'd like to thank you and the rest of your team. It was an important part of my life for a short period of time during a difficult disaster recovery event. A product like the BRCK, with the power o
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Yeah, super obscure. It does exist but rarely mentioned. http://www.discount-low-voltage.com/Connectivity/Shielded-Pl...
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RJ47 is ethernet.
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by marquis 13y ago
Basically, replacing (or alongside) bicycles with little electric cars in those city bike programs. I can see that happening in the future.
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by marquis 13y ago
I think that if we want civilization, which is to say cities, societies, arts, sciences: there is involved some repression on all biological levels. I would rather lie in the sun on the beach all day but I 'repress' this, so I can
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by marquis 13y ago
>Have you actually discussed this with all of them? Also a woman here, with many friends in STEM: none of us like it. All power to those who do - but give us some space to work, and when we want to blur those boundaries we'll do it
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by marquis 13y ago
> it is just as insidious. As a woman I completely agree with this - which is why it's hard to see issues like this on HN. The argument suddenly turns to "but men have it hard too!" instead of "wow, we're messed
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by marquis 13y ago
Fortunately for Thor, being a man, has more to do on screen than just be there for the female gaze. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
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by marquis 13y ago
The Bond girl ideal is uncomfortable for women because they are only objects: they exist for a single purpose, to be gazed at. Maybe they have a cheeky few words but they are one-dimensional. Real sexuality is 2-way: both people are involve
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by marquis 13y ago
>Men were repressed too Ah, this old argument. Yes, and modern feminism would not disagree with you. What this argument does is try to shift the responsibility away from the oppressor (in this case, patriarchy), akin to the slave owner s
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by marquis 13y ago
>Let guys be guys, even if they behave like idiots sometimes. Women do not expect adult men to treat them primarily as sex objects in an intellectual context: There is a time and place for sexualizing each other, and part of becoming an
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by marquis 13y ago
The Max Planck Institute of Mathematics is in Bonn - I'd imagine that it's influence extends to the university in terms of top-tier mathematics education.
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by marquis 13y ago
American Apparel is a famous example. Though their marketing may be subject to discussion, their production practices are admirable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Apparel#Production
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by marquis 13y ago
Intelligentsia coffee is great, there is also an artisan bean subscription service, out of SF I think: https://tonx.org
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This is really nicely done on the UI end, should be up higher on this page.
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This is not a free market experience. Coca-Cola et al would not be able to afford to deliver to remote areas with the huge subsidies they are receiving. There are taxes then subsidies then taxes upon taxes you've already paid.. http:&
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by marquis 13y ago
>I thought we were talking about now. Ah well, I was talking about the future. You're correct about the above you mention, and regarding sockets I was of course referring to TCP/IP. I'm keeping an eye on the Jolla/Chr
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by marquis 13y ago
All of your points are completely valid today. I would come back in 5 years and see that probably all of those are achievable by the browser and Javascript. Eg: >1) Anything low level hardware (reading data via USB, or pushing data into
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by marquis 13y ago
>trying to solve inattentiveness with stultifying rigidity fortified with lashings of mindless tedium and extremely limited choice of work might not be the right move Yes on that I completely agree!
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>If you get bored and distracted easily, Also, he's 21? His concept of 'bored easily' may be 'after 6 hours coding I need a break', or 'I've got way too much energy for this artificial desk job'. W
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by marquis 13y ago
I don't think it's better: I work with heavy media files and it worries me when Apple makes OSX a bit more stupid every release. But I have faith that as developers we'll make it work (maybe the industry moves to Linux, who k
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by marquis 13y ago
Think long-term. What could you conceivably do on the desktop that you can't do on the browser? Media recording and management? HTML5 is well on the way and someone compiled a functional version of FFMpeg in Javascript just recently. S
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Also a live Hangout via Youtube right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q03I1B_yrPg&feature=youtu.be
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Really? You think it's OK that hundreds of thousands of people strangely only have access to pre-processed foodstuffs, because shipping and storage regulations, geographical distances, poverty etc mean they can't put fresh healthy
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I urge you to step into a supermarket or corner store/dairy, in any country outside of an area of affluence. Are you familiar with the concept of Food Deserts? "Because of the Agriculture and Food policies soon people living in fo
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by marquis 13y ago
When a bottle of coca-cola is cheaper than a bottle of water, yes I think that that company, out of many, deserves a little less market share.
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"Companies most at risk are Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Nestle, the top three candy makers, soda makers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and magazine publishers like Time Warner and Hearst Corp." All companies that arguably ar
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I would also recommend to be careful where you take a job: do you want to use your quick mind to build APIs or SQL queries, or do you want to be doing something more innovative like machine learning, or building codecs, crytography or worki
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This particular town was exposed as being well, corrupt, when it comes to patent suits. This American Life: they did a great job on this topic. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/t...
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by marquis 13y ago
I'd agree except for the part where she wasn't getting the care she deserved, and she clearly spent a large part of her old age alone without friends. You can't blame the second part on wealth but at least the care home shoul

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