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by jlev 1y ago
I am an American, and most of the other folks on the project were as well. I did go through an interview with Customs officers when I returned to the US, but it didn't affect my ability to use GlobalEntry. I don't have clearance,
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by jlev 1y ago
This change https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/baea52df7ac9c4b53857556f... was a huge pain in my ass in 2013. I was working in Libya on voter registration tools with the UN and the High National Election Com
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by jlev 1y ago
Thank you, I’m never letting the domain go.
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by jlev 1y ago
I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial
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by jlev 1y ago
A modest proposal to turn Alameda's former naval station into an AI and robotics hub. "All it would take" is - Exercising the Endangered Species Act 7(j) exemption to reactivate this plot of land, a former US Naval base that
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by jlev 2y ago
Aaron Swartz, cofounder of Reddit and inventor of RSS and Markdown, was hounded to death by an overzealous prosecutor for downloading articles from JSTOR, with the intent to learn from them. He was charged with over a million dollars in fin
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by jlev 2y ago
I used to work at a company that used Sentinel-2 data and a large scale AI model to detect changes in land use and land cover anywhere in the world. They provide free global data at 10m resolution on an annual basis, or paid versions at 3m
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by jlev 2y ago
This seems like it goes against most standard development practices.
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by jlev 2y ago
Phrenology 2.0!
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by jlev 3y ago
You can tell that this author knows their shit because the blog post is entirely illustrated with furry memes.
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by jlev 3y ago
I did a project at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media on building a hyper-local radio platform, and we'd always use Car Talk as an example of the kind of interactions we wanted to enable. Like, what if you were a vet in rural Uganda
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by jlev 3y ago
This was an informal thing for a long time, but I didn't know that there's now an actual certificate. I may have to go back and request mine retroactively.
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by jlev 3y ago
Believe it or not, George isn't at home Please leave a message, at the beep I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home! https://www.youtube.c
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by jlev 4y ago
I had a niche in voter registration, and wrote frontend code and server processes that helped tens of millions of people register to vote in the US. Worked on tools for Rock the Vote, vote.org, HelloVote (the first sms voter reg chatbot), a
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by jlev 5y ago
I think this is a very cool usage of the internet for good, and using massive audiences to reach people that traditional activism often misses. Looks like they take crypto. Any of you doge-millionaires want to throw down?
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by jlev 5y ago
I rented a Tesla on Turo a few years ago, it was a blast to drive. It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend renting one.
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It’s unclear if “carbon offsets” even work(grist.org)
18 points by jlev 5y ago|4 comments
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by jlev 6y ago
When are people going to stop rebuilding high tech phrenology?
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by jlev 6y ago
This is intentionally done by one political party that does not care about democracy. They push policies that restrict individual voting rights, gerrymander districts for minority rule, and expand the influence of money over people. This ha
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YC alum VoteAmerica launches tech to help voters register online and by fax(techcrunch.com)
4 points by jlev 6y ago|1 comments
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by jlev 6y ago
"By using fax and email APIs, VoteAmerica is building out a system that allows voters to request a vote-by-mail application just by taking a photo of their signature. VoteAmerica’s tool then uses code to put the signature in the right
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by jlev 7y ago
Thanks for the review, Kristo. We are the real deal, and we'll have all our code on GitHub in a week or two. Just deciding on licenses now.
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by jlev 7y ago
Turnout2020 - https://www.turnout2020.us | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE Turnout2020 is a nonprofit organization founded by a small team of elections and technology experts (including the founders of Vote.org (YC
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by jlev 7y ago
The Internet challenged MrBeast to plant 20m trees for his 20m subscribers. Let's do it!
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Biggest YouTube collaboration ever – to plant 20m trees(teamtrees.org)
8 points by jlev 7y ago|1 comments
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by jlev 7y ago
Location: Oakland, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Flask/Django), JS (React/Vue), DevOps (Docker/AWS), Nice APIs (Twilio/Lob) Résumé/CV: https://levinger.net/josh/fi
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by jlev 7y ago
I'm currently on the job market, and have done a few of these types of take-home tests over the last two months. If they're well structured, as it appears here, they can be fun and hopefully build enthusiasm about the company. If
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by jlev 7y ago
The problem in 2016 wasn't that anyone "hacked" our election, it's that they hacked our electorate. Turns out that people's opinions are much easier to change than cast ballots.
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by jlev 8y ago
And we only have a decade left to save the planet. Time to stop extracting fossil fuels and emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere.
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by jlev 8y ago
These are also Pokemon Go stops, because Niantic ingested some global POI database without considering local contexts. It’s sort of funny, but also pretty offensive. https://twitter.com/jlev/status/1026068175966928

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