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Girls Who Code founder speaks out after school district bans her books(businessinsider.com)
13 points by wturner 4y ago|5 comments
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by wturner 4y ago
The motion seems like it mimics what skateboarders do with their front foot when they ollie.
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by wturner 4y ago
I used this about a decade ago. No complaints. https://github.com/q2a/question2answer
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MrBeast: Capitalism and Philanthropy(youtube.com)
4 points by wturner 5y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 5y ago
""Libertarianism and extreme capitalism" are great for people who are intelligent and driven." It's good for people that want to rationalize their extreme wealth as "meritocracy" when it's inherently
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by wturner 5y ago
This is down to earth advice that matches my own experience. Here is a workflow app intend for work-from-home "gig economy" workers and contractors intended to be as easy to use as a search engine. Still experimenting. https:&#x
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The working homeless in the U.S. documentary(youtube.com)
2 points by wturner 5y ago|0 comments
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A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage(markets.businessinsider.com)
72 points by wturner 5y ago|24 comments
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Interview with Paul Schmitt – a skateboard industry innovator(youtube.com)
3 points by wturner 5y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 5y ago
You're conflating intelligence with values. We don't know what intelligence is. A lot of psychopaths, racists, sociopaths, Dogecoin promoting tech entrepreneurs, gang members, etc are very intelligent according to their own values
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by wturner 5y ago
I don't know who "most people" are but if you are conflating science with values (I did a quick look up of the definition of "scientism") you are doing it wrong - and it isn't science. This reminds me of a vide
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by wturner 5y ago
I wish we had a world where the discernment between science, axiom and ideology was a real thing ironed into the public muscle memory as much as ideology itself. Idealism.
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by wturner 6y ago
It exist in granular form in government safety nets, universal healthcare and a handful of other policies in some parts of the world. it also exists in various disjointed pockets of the human experience outside of any easily identified ideo
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by wturner 6y ago
"Relieving humans from having to worry about or deal with money would be an actual Copernican revolution. How that would work is beyond me, but that's precisely why it would be revolutionary." This
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by wturner 6y ago
Location: Texas U.S.A Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Not at the moment Technologies: Front-end, JavaScript, React, Linux, Various Home Page & Resume: helpknow.com wktdev@gmail.com
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Santa Cruz bans predictive policing(santacruzworks.org)
11 points by wturner 6y ago|2 comments
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by wturner 6y ago
Their are two main factions of UBI. On one side you have free market libertarians and conservatives that would cut social spending to pay for it. On the other hand you have a "progressive" version of UBI that is founded on Modern
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by wturner 6y ago
1 definitely won't happen. Money is nothing more than a number on a computer screen. When the fed spends, they just type a new number on the screen - literally. Modern Monetary theory really opened my eyes around the phony assumptions
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by wturner 6y ago
Stephanie Kelton and MMT should be part of the basic income discussion so that Yang doesn't create an ideologically tinted version that kills social security making it politically appealing to libertarian free market wing nuts.
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Machine Zone Sells at a Loss(bloomberg.com)
1 points by wturner 6y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 6y ago
I worked at a private college called Expression right at the end of the first dot com bust.The founder wanted to turn the school into the "Julliard of the digital arts" - and keep the tuition as low as possible. For the first few
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by wturner 6y ago
The main point of the documentary is that the EROEI of the "green economy" turns out to cost more than using fossil fuels directly. In short, the green economy didn't give common people an alternative, it simply gave business
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by wturner 7y ago
Location:Santa Cruz Ca. Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: JavaScript,React,Node,Front End,Linux Resume: https://helpknow.com/resume.pdf Email: wktdev@gmail.com
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by wturner 7y ago
I am waiting for the day when you can learn math kinesthetically like skateboarding or some other full-body activity. The video I linked below embodies what I'm thinking. This could easily be turned into a VR game where the user "
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by wturner 7y ago
Looker just sold to Google for 2 billion and there is still an army of tent cities around town due to people falling through the economic cracks coupled with a city wide meth and heroin epidemic. How-do-we-fix-this ? Okay, enough trolling.
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Paul Schmitt on Designing Skateboards(youtube.com)
1 points by wturner 7y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 7y ago
"Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for everyone else"
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by wturner 7y ago
As a middle aged man I use skateboarding solely for exercise and the dopamine rush. If I went to the gym I would be bored to tears. I go to the skate park and just pump around in the bowl as hard as I can for a few hours. It's great.
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by wturner 7y ago
"I want to document some concerns I have with Satori," she wrote. "[Satori's staffer] is operating completely alone. He has no team, office and is not even currently being paid." "He is struggling to even get b
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Taxpayers hit from govt partnership with US video game maker Machine Zone(msn.com)
1 points by wturner 7y ago|1 comments

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