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by mch82 7y ago
Interesting idea. It might be worth offering two pricing options: (1) Pay for private answers, (2) free/bounty open source answers. Your concept seems to have some overlap with StackOverflow. A problem with StackOverflow is their conte
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Your site says it’s written in Ruby. Check out the OmniAuth gem for adding login providers. It’s probably worth a quick look at similar gems before choosing this one. https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth
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One way to test whether people will buy consulting in analytics might be to sign up as an “analytics expert” on Instant Coffee and get leads from the OP. Then Instant Coffee is covering a chunk of the payment & client acquisition overhe
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by mch82 7y ago
A nonprofit may be a great model for you and I love nonprofits. It’s been traditionally difficult for open source software organizations to get recognized as a 503c nonprofit (which allows people to make tax deductible donations). Things ma
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In “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” the toy as predictor concept is explored more deeply. The emphasis is less on the implementation of the toy than on the popularity of the style of play or human amusement that the toy enables.
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World of Warcraft Gold & similar in-game currencies are toys. Bitcoin is not a toy, but follows in the footsteps of those toys (in addition to traditional currencies).
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Literally, no. Conceptually, maybe. Lego represents the construction of objects from catalogs of standard components. That’s in comparison to carving unique, one off toys from raw wood. Professional fabrication has followed in the footsteps
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If you’re excited by this concept I recommend the book “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” by Steven Johnson. Fascinating stuff! Here’s a recorded talk and more info: http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/jan&
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by mch82 7y ago
For personal notes, I’ve fallen back to plain text files with Markdown formatting. They’re relatively easy to search & avoid vendor lock-in so I can retain access to my writing. I try to include a common word in the title of related tex
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On a city tour the guide shared that a local billionaire hired the Navy Seals to break into his home to test the security system. He doesn’t want his family hurt by people who want his money.
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Sometimes it is (unfortunately) necessary to do the computer simulation in order to get people to read/value the article.
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Mediawiki works quite well. Most people use Wikipedia, so are able to quickly learn & use Mediawiki. Wikimedia Foundation has a number of initiatives to increase the diversity of Wikipedia contributors, so that translates into features
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> autonomous electric vehicles... Not to argue, but this doesn’t exist. That’s a fair critique. The original version of my comment assumed a lot & I’ve hopefully restated it in more achievable terms. I don’t think we can turn on auto
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How? Time would be needed to make an alternative transit option available. Are you aware the city (and private lots) already charge for parking?
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> Rail systematizes discrimination Railways are fixed route. People who rely on rail can only go where the rail goes & have limited freedom to access other destinations. The people who pay for rail (via taxes) are often not the peopl
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The difference between small, point to point vehicles that operate like taxis and rail is that taxis actually get cars off the road. I attended Hack for LA a couple years back and 1/3 of the traffic in downtown LA is drivers looking fo
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by mch82 7y ago
We have the technology today to operate a “train” of self-driving vehicles in a dedicated self-driving freeway lane. California high speed rail isn’t scheduled to open until 2033. By 2033 I bet we’ll have self-driving vehicles capable of la
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by mch82 7y ago
High speed rail is a bad investment. Rail systematizes discrimination, typically loses money, and struggles to provide a last mile solution. $60B can buy at least 600,000 electric vehicles with 3 million seats. Semi-autonomous vehicles are
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by mch82 7y ago
https://youtu.be/FX3uOQiZs0A Birds attack drones, especially large birds of prey
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The goal is probably using drones for delivery where there are no roads. My guess is the existing delivery infrastructure in most of the US is too effective to allow drones to succeed here (yet). Someday that will change, but I expect drone
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by mch82 7y ago
@earthquakesLA is very quick to post info Edit: for example... “A 3.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 0mi WSW of Compton, CA. Details: http://eqbot.com/2iV Map: http://eqbot.com/2ii”
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Thanks for that reference. Fan of EFF. I’ll check it out. The case history archive is a pretty cool resource.
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Is it doing that because they are “conservative emails” or because they violate spam rules? If those emails are flagged because they’re “conservative” then I agree with you that needs to he corrected. However, if those emails are flagged be
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“Facebook, [company attorneys] repeatedly argued, is a publisher, and a company that makes editorial decisions, which are protected by the first amendment.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02&#
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Naval is exactly wrong. Facebook must choose between being a “platform” like a phone company and being a “publisher” like a newspaper or broadcaster. The rules are different and the accountability is different, which is why Fb lawyers spent
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This is also true in the US. See my reply to the parent. The Naval quote is wrong.
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Edit: I see the Naval quote is from the Joe Rogan podcast (which I often enjoy). I haven’t listened to the episode, so don’t have full context but Naval seems to have the timeline, “publisher”, and “platform” confused. Facebook, Google (You
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There are 5 Quora answers: 3.3-5 years, 9 years, 7 years, 10-12 years (with 35 year outliers), and 4.8 years. 7 years is near the average of all those answers. > “ Most of the wait time is due to lack of demand” None of the Quora answers
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I think it makes sense to keep operating reactors that are currently active. We’re already on the hook for storing that waste and managing those decommissioned sites. Similarly, I’m okay with a phased decommissioning of other dirty fuels. I
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TLDR: Extrapolating current trends in renewable power generation, by the time we’re able to complete construction of new nuclear plants those plants won’t be necessary. There are six significant flaws in most recent pro-nuclear arguments I’

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