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by numtel 7y ago
As someone working on a crowdfunding platform that I would like to be able to release the source code as an open consumer union implementation, I have concerns about enabling unmoderated crowdfunding. The power of a collective wallet is not
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by numtel 7y ago
* Pollution: exhaust, noise, brake dust * Wide right-of-way required for travel, stretching out cities, making walking impossible * Pedestrian safety: driving successfully requires full concentration * Both drivers and pedestrians experienc
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by numtel 7y ago
The market doesn't capture the externalities of the car. Its downsides are pushed to the people who don't use them.
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by numtel 7y ago
Super minor complaint, but when I suspend/lose connection for a while and it restores, I have to restart the CLI to resume receiving events.
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by numtel 7y ago
No, you missed the point. The "teaching a man to fish" includes all the knowledge, including how to make the pole. Coercive economic dependence drives exploitation and disparities.
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by numtel 7y ago
Philanthropists give money to causes that do not result in the systemic changes necessary to reduce their wealth to a small multiplier of the average person's. It's the old saying: "give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day
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by numtel 7y ago
Laws generally come from practice: first "de facto," (by force) then later "de jure." (by law) Those regulations will exist when there is less political friction required to enact them. When workers unionize, they take t
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by numtel 7y ago
Hey Vlad, very cool to hear you're still using this stuff. I've seen the notications on the latest with Zongji. [0] Kudos for keeping it going! https://github.com/nevill/zongji
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by numtel 7y ago
I wrote a node.js package a few years ago that gets past the 8000 bytes by sending multiple notifications. https://github.com/numtel/pg-live-select
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by numtel 7y ago
Lithtml implements declarative DOM using string literals like this very efficiently. I'm of the opinion that sticking with React when Lithtml exists is just fear of writing vanilla classes.
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by numtel 7y ago
Police departments exist to protect property. Every wealthy individual or large business sets the PD's agenda by design. In order for less-wealthy people to effect the agenda, they can vote or protest but these are significantly less d
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by numtel 7y ago
I'd be the first to condemn police brutality but for the expensive property they have in the police department's jurisdiction, Facebook paying what amounts to elective taxes in order to improve security seems totally reasonable. A
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by numtel 7y ago
So we've already destroyed 99% of wetlands in California in the last 150 years, let's play hot potato with the small patch that's left? The entire central valley was a marsh. The delta is the small part that still slightly re
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by numtel 7y ago
Pretty soon we won't even need all these parts. If Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) take off like these reports describe, we'll be able to irrigate deserts passively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU htt
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by numtel 7y ago
Don't forget how CO2 impacts us too. > on average, a typical participant’s cognitive scores dropped 21 percent with a 400 ppm increase in CO2 https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-dire...
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by numtel 7y ago
Metal-organic frameworks that can pull water out of the air passively hold promise to completely reshape our relationship to the land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU Irrigation without building canals, water ge
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by numtel 7y ago
Just like in the thread [0] about the dam in Turkey: new metal-organic frameworks could change the game for water usage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019&
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by numtel 7y ago
If/when the optimism for metal-organic frameworks is realized, we can finally stop doing this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crystall
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by numtel 7y ago
Counterfeiting is a minor issue in our daily lives because so much resources have to be devoted to keeping it that way. "By 1865, up to one-third or even one-half of American money in circulation was fake." [0] Governments regular
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by numtel 7y ago
There's no reason a cryptocurrency cannot be paired with judicial institutions that provide recourse for lost or stolen funds. The innovation of cryptocurrency is simple and undeniable. Fiat money requires armed forces to secure its su
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by numtel 7y ago
That's so many steps. All I do is put the flowers on parchment paper or any surface in the oven for 30 mins at 245F. There's no need to put it in capsules. It stays fine in a bag for months as long as it's dry enough where yo
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by numtel 7y ago
Sorry if that point was hazy. I'm in agreement with your comment but those implementations of national economies operating on Marxist principles were stifled greatly. WW2 caused much greater destruction of the USSR than the US. The US&
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by numtel 7y ago
> There is no way to A/B test history. This is the first thing you learn as a Political Science student in university. The "science" half of the name is somewhat lacking when you can't experiment. > We now know tha
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by numtel 7y ago
Try swimming anywhere near a gas-powered boat and you'll instantly taste and smell how gross it is.
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by numtel 7y ago
No need to root, with android in developer mode, run this to forward localhost:3000 to the same port on the phone. > adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000
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by numtel 7y ago
It seems the search is only by name. Is it possible to add a view that shows the funds sorted by which ones are most friendly to climate change proposals?
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by numtel 7y ago
Disappointed that I didn't see a new generation upon refresh...
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by numtel 7y ago
The local bus service in my city between the Bay Area and Sacramento reduced frequency and coverage last year. Their suggestion was to just use a ride-sharing app. It's not just cab companies.
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by numtel 8y ago
It's the extraction process that's the problem with shale, moreso than the burning of the gas.
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by numtel 8y ago
GLSL isn't that much different syntax that Javascript. If you write it directly you get the fun of using types. And WebGL2's support of GLSL ES 3.0 brings features that make it much more handy for compute operations like bitwise o

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