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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Sunlight foundation got the laws passed so GPO could provide legislative data to the public. AFAIK they are the reason GPO/govinfo.gov bill data exists. Congress having an API is their doing. https://sunlightfoundation.com&#
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Me, siblings, parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle, and a cousin.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
My family does monthly email updates mainly because not everyone is on Facebook. No noise. Just what's new with everyone, once in a while. There's no ads, no posts about what they had for lunch, no reposts about their political op
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Use a language that doesn’t allow incorrect code and you get 100% code coverage without writing tests. Smart compilers and precise language (ala Haskell) obviate the need for writing unit tests.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. If you have to argue whether it’s an improvement, it’s not an improvement.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Everyone should do this with their personal content too. Post to your own website and syndicate elsewhere. That way you maintain ownership of your content and audience, and people don’t need to use Twitter/FB to follow you.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Please think twice before spending your life savings, especially if you have no solid plan for getting donations to pay for your living expenses. It’s much less risky to increase donations before quitting your job. Just be careful if this i
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
> Surveillance capitalism’s real products, vaporous but immensely valuable, are predictions about our future behavior Enough of the juvenile hyperbole. Facebook nor Google sells future predictions of users. Facebook’s customers are adver
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That's already illegal regardless.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Regulatory capture at its best. Gambling is allowed only for the government and their favorite casinos. > A coalition backed by billionaire casino executive Sheldon Adelson lobbied the Justice Department in 2017 to reconsider its 2011 de
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
There is no law against "causing global warming", and it's not caused by one oil company. Carbon tax doesn't address energy sustainability, or force people to stop polluting. They just have to pay to pollute, or switch t
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Some key lessons: - Measure ad effectiveness before continuing to pour money into it (denial is a helluva drug). - Market to your customers, and know who they are. Make sure keywords are targeting the right audience before optimizing click-
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
These suggestions seem like a lot of work. My home folder is a Git repo and it works great. No complicated setup. Easy to sync remotely and track changes.
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The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924(theintercept.com)
6 points by simplecomplex 8y ago|0 comments
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It would look like: My manager emails me something to do. I respond to that email to update them. I can easily search, tag, star, and export/backup our “tasks”. It loads instantly, and everybody has access to email everywhere they go,
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Hard to turn VC money down when it’s practically free. None of the founders I know that raised seed capital even had a business plan. Hard to turn down $1,000,000 when all you have to do for it is say yes. Maybe go to a few meetings, make a
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
I was hoping for a comparison between OS X and Linux, but the article is just an overview of the OP’s Linux apps. The title is misleading, as there’s really nothing here about MacBooks. But good to know tiling window managers are still bein
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Bad for American fracking companies exporting oil, but great for green energy business.
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Affordability has gotten worse since the government started giving loans. The non-wealthy students still have to pay their tuition. I think you might mean accessibility. Government loans do expand access, but so does the private income shar
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Why not just let the market do what it wants? That’s how we got Lamda School in the first place. That way there could be income-sharing schools like Lamda School for trades that make financial sense. For degrees that don’t make financial se
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Can someone explain how the world is a better place by outlawing business with Iran? Remember, the crime here is selling telecom equipment...
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Climbing the Walls: What about immigration causes us to lose our minds?(3quarksdaily.com)
4 points by simplecomplex 8y ago|0 comments
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“Therapy” is the biggest legal scam in the US. Feeling depressed? Here have whatever chemical psychologists happen to be playing with today! Take some mushrooms, no wait, exercise, no wait, take this, no wait that doesn’t work and is danger
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Service workers allow for push notifications and other background tasks.
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
The semantic web is alive in a different form with the microblogging community using micro formats. See Indieweb.org and microformats.org, micropub, microsub, websub
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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Off the top of my head: - Paid support from the official development team. - Paid features, plugins, or addons that primarily serve enterprise users. - Paid hosting - In-app advertising
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There is no such thing as AI. No professional, legal, or formal definition of such a thing exists. Even self-described AI experts have put forth no definition for AI, let alone agreed on one. Elon Musk was telling people on Joe Rogan that A
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What conviction? China is an authoritarian state, I’m not disputing that at all. My only conviction is that these articles are upvoted based on anti-Chinese sentiment, not on any real basis for learning something. Especially considering tec
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UK has been doing the same thing for the last 10 years... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/face-recognition-police-uk-s...
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No, but the narrative being pushed is that China is creepy and authoritarian for using the same tech and doing the same things everyone else is. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems every day similar articles are hitting HN’s front pages .

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