colinyoung

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by colinyoung 7y ago
I read it too. Made me think how ethical it is to continue using Facebook (and its other major product, Instagram).
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by colinyoung 7y ago
This comment is wildly out of touch with how power works and change happens in this world
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by colinyoung 7y ago
Good, I did too
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by colinyoung 7y ago
Backlash was certainly loud, but Amazon could have made things work even without all of the subsidies they received. This is entirely me speculating, but I wonder if Amazon feared that NYC workers might eventually organize or be organized,
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by colinyoung 7y ago
The distinction is that those types of areas in the US are generally unaffordable to many, and are probably far less safe due to increased car traffic.
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by colinyoung 7y ago
You're dead too, buddy.
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by colinyoung 7y ago
"Earn" is not an accurate term, even if you don't agree with political analyses that define profit/rents as unearned. The fact is, over 60% of the 400 richest Americans were born wealthy. https://inequality.or
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by colinyoung 8y ago
> If you use drugs > If you are gay/religious Uh, neither of these can be inferred definitively from location data.
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by colinyoung 8y ago
He says he wants a new narrative, but makes no suggestion of how we can curb inequality other than the standard Valley tech-bro "government is hella inefficient" statement.
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by colinyoung 8y ago
I think OP was probably referring to the 'dead Main Streets' and 'neighborhood near the plant that closed is totally struggling' phenomenon. I've been around the same areas and see seriously struggling places. When
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by colinyoung 9y ago
Your premise forgets that the Muni and all other public transit is not funded directly by its citizenry or riders. It's funded thru a mix of fare income, city and state taxes, federal appropriations. This is obviously different from so
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by colinyoung 9y ago
As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone. Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in quest
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by colinyoung 9y ago
> staunchly only in favor of one political party This is empirically not true, especially if you look at the policies of and donations by Google, Twitter, and Facebook. Google donates to both parties; Twitter obviously has a very laissez
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by colinyoung 10y ago
Believe the OP is suggesting it's on its way, not that the US is there quite yet. And the US certainly has our own questionable human rights issues.
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by colinyoung 11y ago
I'm one of these. PivotalTracker is the only thing I don't hate.
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by colinyoung 11y ago
Moneythink | Chicago, IL At Moneythink, we're building tech products that help build the habits American youth will need to become more financially capable. To equip students for these decisions, Moneythink trains college volunteers to
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by colinyoung 11y ago
This is hardly a flaw in Rails - if the user's login session isn't ended before handing physical access to another person, that's not really the software's problem.
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by colinyoung 11y ago
Maybe we could use something more readable? What about: if posts.comments??.likes?? or if posts..comments..likes instead of if posts.?comments.?likes That would mirror the usage of ?? as the nil-coalescing operato
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by colinyoung 11y ago
I actually thought they were the same company until right now, so this certainly makes sense.
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by colinyoung 11y ago
That's about right.
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by colinyoung 11y ago
There's no app because: - Cars vary widely in how they hold value (for example: http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/car-news/209232/2... ) - Cars will always depreciate, houses will often _app
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by colinyoung 12y ago
This is amazing. Even more amazing that all of this was done in 1969. How is this PDF entirely high-resolution and vector? Is it essentially a digital remake of the original document? Or was the original document written in some crazy precu
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by colinyoung 12y ago
Collaborative flirting! Love it
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by colinyoung 12y ago
The monetization on this seems extremely likely to be selling drinking habit data to specific brands, since it can recognize brands and even varieties within brands.
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by colinyoung 12y ago
It's not the first startup splash page to have the GGB on it. I don't even notice anymore.
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by colinyoung 13y ago
As far as I know, the guys don't have a top-down structure, so they're unable to make calls like that individually - and besides, they're hustlers. They made CaH in-house, bootstrapped, and entirely by-hand. It's not narcissistic to want to
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by colinyoung 13y ago
I like this for the design, but for something that's even more practical for distance discovery, check out this Chicago times map: http://www.mapnificent.net/chicago/
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by colinyoung 14y ago
I'd love it if you could convert times in days to months, or something like 'early september' if you don't want to seem to over-promise by giving a real date. I could divide by 30, but I'm lazy.
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by colinyoung 14y ago
The Obama campaign in 2012 had a smartphone/tablet app that they used in the early days of the re-election campaign to register voters as part of their first canvassing passes. Being open-source software, any person or organization that wan
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by colinyoung 14y ago
Yes, it's the dynamic matchers only.

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