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by rafd 11mo ago
Having a random quantum seed to an otherwise opaque internal process is still a far cry from free will and agency. Consider thermodynamics: even without quantum weirdness, we can't compute/predict the micro interactions of atoms i
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by rafd 1y ago
Terry Bouricius (Vermont politician) has a draft book on this topic (link below). He used to be a strong advocate for electoral reform, but after seeing Citizen Assemblies in action, now advocates for Sortition. He has some interesting idea
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by rafd 2y ago
Mario Kart 8 is now frozen, no more patches to come.
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by rafd 3y ago
We, as in humanity, haven't even figured out how to support the people we already have. We never have. Even without the threat of climate change, billions are under-nourished. High tech might alleviate some issues, but the root cause c
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by rafd 3y ago
Also: friends don't let friends use line graphs when the data is not continous between the sampled points. (bar graphs are typically more appropriate)
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by rafd 3y ago
It's typically easier to make money from concentrations of money (rich individuals and companies), and those tend have more gain opportunities than problems (because they've already monied-away their problems).
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by rafd 3y ago
Starting with "problems" is already cutting out half of the kinds of businesses that exist. I much prefer the "jobs-to-be-done" framing: people and organizations desire certain things done, and they pay for products&#x2F
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Unstuck – An App for Peer-to-Peer Support and On-Demand Training(unstuckapp.com)
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by rafd 5y ago
I made a tool like this for our team a while back, and made it available for free: https://decidedly.so Would love to hear your thoughts or anyone else's. (Fun aside: I ended up implementing the Ford Johnson algorithm to mi
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by rafd 5y ago
FYI now there’s also :user-invalid which waits for the user to blur out of the field before it indicates the validity.
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by rafd 5y ago
This only follows under the assumption that a company only derives value from the labour of its employees, ie. “there is only labour”. But there are many other kinds of assets - cash, brand, real estate, natural renewable resources etc. One
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by rafd 6y ago
...and, there's nothing particularly preventing a similar approach in JS (keywords would need to be strings, and... data manipulation in JS is relatively a huge pain compared to Clojure)
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by rafd 6y ago
For anyone interested in a slightly lighter Diplomacy, I recommend checking out Game of Thrones the board game. Like Diplomacy, it can be played with no randomness, but the way orders work is much less tedious. It ties in nicely with the th
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by rafd 6y ago
If we could afford to live in a world where everyone was given $5000/mth, would we want such a world? (where work was optional) I think yes. ...can we afford that? At this point, probably not. But is it something to strive for? I think
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by rafd 6y ago
Some scarce things that everyday people want are likely to go up in price (ex. rent in cities that are already struggling with housing prices). Some things may drop in price (higher demand allowing to spread fixed costs over more units; or
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by rafd 6y ago
Existing social insurance schemes typically are of the form: you get $1000/mth, but, if you do any work, it subtracts from your payment. So, if you work less than $1000/mth, you're working, say, 100 hours "for nothing&qu
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by rafd 6y ago
Ctrl-H , or, in project.clj, remove the line ":preloads [day8.re-frame-10x.preload]" and restart the REPL.
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by rafd 6y ago
I hear your concern. Would the ability to "disable auto-creation of tags" solve your problem?
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by rafd 6y ago
If you're using Slack/etc. primarily for "optional conversations", where not-reading or not-participating is no big deal, then Braid's design adds nothing for you. But, if you are trying to have necessary conversati
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by rafd 6y ago
Not at the moment, but it is a pull-request away. :P I'll put adjustable-width-threads on our roadmap. ...but if anyone reading this wants to work on it, it would make a decent 'first PR', and I'm available to pair remot
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by rafd 6y ago
Re: letting them go... I guess it depends on how you use chat. For us, most conversations in Braid are bonafide work conversations that are important and can't be skipped (ex. we run our board meetings asynchronously via Braid, discuss
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by rafd 6y ago
With "Datomic On-Prem Starter", you can run Braid for free. https://www.datomic.com/get-datomic.html
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by rafd 6y ago
The UI is based on side-scrolling, which works best with trackpad, but, I use a mouse and it works okay. In practise, I tend to go through conversations 1-by-1 and either reply and close them, close them without reply, or star them and cl
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by rafd 6y ago
"multiple conversations all jumbled up" is exactly what initially motivated me to start hacking on Braid. Braid's search is certainly something that can be improved. In practice, it's actually pretty rare to have to fish
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by rafd 6y ago
Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here. We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that "chatrooms" didn't promote good async team workflows. They would lead to a lot of
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by rafd 7y ago
Thanks a lot for doing this! Here are the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13nRcrbnbvpUZGtABY9UC... Also, I gave the talk again and made some modifications (focusing only on FP, no mention of Clojure
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by rafd 7y ago
6 characters is pretty trivial to brute force. Someone could set up a script to continuously try all combinations and get access to whatever happens to hit a match. You could block an IP after a certain number of failures, but that doesn&#x
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by rafd 7y ago
The difference is that in the cljs version you are writing clojure at all times using clojure data structures and types (vector, map, keyword, string) which lets you manipulate and generate things easily, and, you don't have to jump be
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by rafd 7y ago
My game group's version of the take-backsies rule is: you can change your decision, as long as no new information has been revealed (a card revealed, a dice roll, next players move, etc.) We also play with "public information stay
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by rafd 7y ago
I think "infrastructure" in that every other app that might integrate with a CRM has a salesforce integration. Also, you can expect sales hires to know salesforce.

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