gooserock

6 ms·

1.
by gooserock 9y ago
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind just turned 15 years old. There's still an active mod community for it.
2.
by gooserock 9y ago
> Does anyone have ideas on how a mid-career software developer can switch gears into the clean energy/climate change industry, to do something to help It's easy. - Stop flying. - Eat less meat. - Buy less stuff. - Use less ene
3.
by gooserock 9y ago
Rising sea levels are a concern in the long-term, but what I'm most worried about in my lifetime is the collapse of the industrial food system due to rapid warming. Basically if the Earth warms faster than plants and science can adapt,
4.
by gooserock 10y ago
The idea that building high-income housing makes rents rise is pretty obviously bunk, but the idea that building high-income housing "helps affordability" is not as clear cut. Is it good to increase supply? Yes, of course. But o
5.
by gooserock 10y ago
> how we've become accustomed to the quality and price of software that's been heavily subsidized by massive VC investments. See: Uber
6.
by gooserock 10y ago
I'm shocked - shocked! - to find that gambling is going on here!
7.
by gooserock 10y ago
But why are we talking about this in terms of "mysteries"? We'll always be able to reduce things down to a level where we don't know how it works. Right now, sure, we don't know what makes matter matterial , but fo
8.
by gooserock 10y ago
Perhaps I'm just not smart enough to understand what the hell this article is driving at. But I'm pretty confident in my personal understanding of "consciousness": it's a word that we use to describe our "exper
9.
by gooserock 10y ago
It's not that consciousness "isn't real" in the sense that flying unicorns aren't real - it's that "consciousness" is just a word that humans made to describe a phenomenon, just like "turbulence.
10.
by gooserock 10y ago
> If consciousness is just matter, why isn't yours accessible to me. Because my matter and your matter aren't in close enough physical proximity or the appropriate configuration to have any communication with one another. Same
11.
by gooserock 10y ago
> What does a website platform need $850 million more for? Like others have commented, at least some of this money will be used to pay off initial investors with a nice profit. It's a kind of pyramid scheme, really, that ends with a
12.
by gooserock 10y ago
But this whole game is inherently one where some governments will lose. If countries are free to set their own corporate tax rates, you'll get some with high rates and some with lower, and corporations - which can relocate in a way tha
13.
by gooserock 10y ago
Are you familiar with a country called the United States? I hear they've done pretty well with immigrants from vastly different cultural backgrounds, many of whom don't speak the language.
14.
by gooserock 10y ago
Also ponzi schemes.
15.
by gooserock 10y ago
But it's important to point out that 1) That $1.1 billion was for two facilities 2) LIGO underwent a huge upgrade over the last decade, making the instruments tremendously more sensitive, and the cost of this upgrade is included in t
16.
by gooserock 10y ago
I think there might be state-based chapters? My friends here are actually part of "Code for Maine."
17.
by gooserock 10y ago
The funny thing was, in interview #2 I did mention that that they were asking me all the same questions, once it became clear that that was happening. The interviewer was like, "Oh? Really? Well this is our interview process," a
18.
by gooserock 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughts, I think you have a decent point there. My experience does include running front-end at the startup I worked at, and even being part of the three-person group that decided on the direction of the product (with the t
19.
by gooserock 10y ago
I've actually started working with some Code for America folks here in my community - independently of CfA - on some city open data projects. They're awesome. :-)
20.
by gooserock 10y ago
My experience has all been with teams and companies < 15 people, and he seemed unhappy about that. The startup I worked on had 12 people at its height (before it was bought by a large tech company), and I was the first employee hire so I
21.
by gooserock 10y ago
For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and some marketing and management - with about 8 ye
22.
Forced Windows 10 Upgrade Shuts Down PC Used by Anti-Poaching Rangers in Africa(news.softpedia.com)
159 points by gooserock 10y ago|205 comments
23.
by gooserock 10y ago
...displaying a great example of why the free market is not the best way to handle healthcare and medical research. The availability of treatment has everything to do with profit, and little to do with need.
24.
by gooserock 10y ago
Presumably though, employees also got paid a very, very healthy salary while working there too, so it's far from a complete loss...
25.
by gooserock 10y ago
> and all the investors are chumps who believe whatever management puts in the big font at the top of the press release Chumps, no. Humans, yes.
26.
by gooserock 10y ago
If you want to know more about the Norse accounts of America and how their presence in Newfoundland was originally discovered, I recommend listening to my podcast - the Born Yesterday podcast - about it. It's one of my best episodes, I
27.
Clinton Lets Theranos Throw Her a Fundraiser [New York Magazine](nymag.com)
4 points by gooserock 11y ago|0 comments
28.
by gooserock 11y ago
> Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Bullshit FTFY
29.
by gooserock 11y ago
The really scary thing about this isn't the arctic ice; it's the permafrost at high latitudes. The permafrost contains a whole heck of a lot of methane, and as it melts it releases that methane, which in turn causes the atmosphere
30.
by gooserock 11y ago
"First one's free."

More ›