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by mlinksva 10y ago
If WWII (or other total war) hadn't happened, I wonder if the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration would still exist today and in what form. I think it might be interesting to operate a live
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Shorter list but at some point will be more comprehensive and source for linked article https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3...
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by mlinksva 10y ago
In the meantime, add references and statements to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27998978 (item about rsync.net)
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by mlinksva 10y ago
A shortcut could be to force commercial endeavors to provide Open Hardware through regulation. Not going to happen overnight either, but talking up in policy discourse seems like a better option than talking up in a hut.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
The best thing about this is it doesn't hector readers about features of their individual consumption or production (e.g., licenses). The call to action at the end instead is: > The government can help us by making software compani
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by mlinksva 10y ago
https://www.softwareheritage.org/ launched recently to do for software something like what archive.org does for the web.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Free time.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I'd approve of some other systems even more, but this is better than the usual. Maine has also had voluntary public campaign financing since 1996, strengthened a bit in 2015 http://www.maine.gov/ethics/mcea/
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Earlier indicator that traders expect higher volatility under Trump https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/what-do...
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by mlinksva 10y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_Street_Ri... is a good telling of struggle between human drivers (and driving clubs, and car dealers) and other humans for the streets, or http://99percenti
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by mlinksva 10y ago
More sites should switch from webfonts to svg for navigation https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11154834
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Middle of the World is one of my favorite films ever. I kind of dread finding it again for fear that it won't seem as great as I remember.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Are there differences between the datacenter and consumer device markets that make something like OCP gaining traction much harder for the latter, besides the lack of huge buyers (in terms of both quantity and making a difference in buyer&#
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Pretty well? Seems to me there's a big problem in the public sector of extreme difficulty of terminating non- and even anti-performers, but that's orthogonal to relatively narrow and seniority-based compensation bands. But those a
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Indeed. I would not mind if naming things after individual humans was seen as profane and never done. But I have a far, far lesser goal: ending the naming of things after humans who have claimed to own other human beings.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
1 thing is 1 too many. All should be renamed. Yes, that's a lot of things.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I don't want to erase slavers from history books, only from positions of honor. Stalin and Hitler should be remembered accurately, not honored. Same for other slavers.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
He was a slaver. That's at least one thing to hold against him, to say the least. Everything named after him should be renamed, all statues of him in public places should be toppled.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Any estimate in terms of DALYs?
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Thank you. I find it bizarre that these days articles include text such as "Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday" without providing a link, even though the article is sadly paywalled.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I don't think I've gotten any wholly unsolicited emails via Mailchimp or similar services. I still usually file them as spam because I hate that links they contain are obfuscated redirects -- for tracking purposes, but I'm mu
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by mlinksva 10y ago
An alternative to mandating standard designs is to mandate open designs -- royalty-free licenses and documentation must be adequate for third parties to manufacture and improve all parts.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Thank you for initiating the merger. I admired that because I agree fragmentation is a big problem -- http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/10/22/open-source-prolifer... -- and the Linux desktop is a prime e
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by mlinksva 10y ago
It's an ongoing project. There will be more episodes, and more Synfig improvements. IIUC Morevna is led by one of the Synfig developers and is used to motivate Synfig improvements, much like Blender shorts and Blender, and more recentl
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Dear Al-Jazeera: 1) instruct your developers to only use open source code so as to avoid situations like this 2) slideshows are terrible, lots of work for viewer to get through. text or video work great, stick to them, don't use a form
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I agree with and do all that also. I was expecting a bit more from you given earlier: > If you want to change behavior, you need to learn and practice leadership skills and apply them to yourself as well as others. The science is clear.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_Street_Ri... covers almost precisely the same material as that podcast episode, for those who prefer to read. The paper is from 2007 and podcast 2014, neither covers p
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I meant regarding climate change. Searched your blog and best I could find is: > I talk a lot about how I try to avoid flying because the pollution it causes hurts people. Good for you! (I don't mean this sarcastically. Me too.) I e
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> I moved from science to leadership. ... > Confusing telling people what to do and other ineffective techniques with actually, effectively leading them is part of why we have been ineffective at changing people's behavior, illus
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I don't have a brief answer, but recommend https://www.martineve.com/2014/11/27/book-open-access-and-th... if you'd like to read a book about it. The book is OA.

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