johnnyforeigner

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by johnnyforeigner 7y ago
Living through the Cold War brought us a constant and very close awareness of the potential for a nuclear extinction event so I don’t think it’s climate change. If anything it was scarier then because there was a sense that extinction could
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by johnnyforeigner 8y ago
In Catalunya we’ve had such a network for many years and it is specifically used for providing connectivity to rural parts of the country. It’s called Guifi.net and has over 30,000 nodes. I was surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the article a
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by johnnyforeigner 9y ago
Always loved "Film Noir House" where every room was wired such that it narrated whatever you were doing around the house, but in the style of a Film Noir movie... "He walked into the bedroom... switched on the light..."
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by johnnyforeigner 9y ago
Half bakery is about ideas that seem interesting but are either absurd or impossible - but crucially are such for interesting or amusing reasons.
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by johnnyforeigner 9y ago
Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn't have a full backup so, funny though it is now, there was some epic stuff
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by johnnyforeigner 9y ago
So the fact that some slaves were treated well by their owners somehow makes it OK for one human being to actually own another? Because what you just wrote sounds an awful like a defence of slavery. What's awful about slavery is not
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by johnnyforeigner 9y ago
The cost of flat rental has risen enormously here in the past 18 months. €800 will not get you a nice flat in the centre any more. If you're lucky, you may get something OK for about €950. Lunch menus at 10 euros are not that common
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by johnnyforeigner 10y ago
I live and work in Poble Nou and I checked out the Superille. It was marvellous. It is (I believe) a temporary project to explore how it all might work. In that sense, it's prototype and that's in fact really cool too. Basically t
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by johnnyforeigner 10y ago
I know a little about Pier 01. It's full of Barcelona and international startups, and I believe it's part of the Barcelona Activa city project to develop entrepreneurship. There's a French accelerator called Numa opening ther
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by johnnyforeigner 10y ago
I was really pleased to see that Epson have now done this. They sell a range of printers with the ink in tanks. Instead of the homeopathic quantities of ink you get in normal disposable cartridges, you buy the new ink in bottles and refill
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by johnnyforeigner 13y ago
>If you want to work in an environment full of rowanmannings, that is your prerogative I have worked in an environment with one rowanmanning in it. It was awesome. A more open-minded, funny, smart and generous guy you couldn't hope
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by johnnyforeigner 13y ago
One thing that strikes me, and which I think is important is that we focus more on the fact that we could inspire a million x $10K a year companies rather than a 100 x $1Bn dollar a year companies. Focus on the microdevelopment aspect of th