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by splitrocket 10y ago
Interesting, never heard of Crocker's rules before. Fascinating, and there are parts of it I definitely like, especially the bits around "accepting full responsibility for the operation of your own mind." That said, this assu
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Social Impact Incubator: $50k grant(labs.robinhood.org)
2 points by splitrocket 10y ago|0 comments
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by splitrocket 10y ago
I lived in Hyde Park, Chicago. I now live in Brooklyn, NY. Hyde Park is an extremely poor example of a walkable neighborhood. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, however, is substantially more walkable. I would argue orders of magnitude, but walkscore.co
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by splitrocket 10y ago
There's a user on Metafilter.com, Dee Xtrovert,( https://www.metafilter.com/user/45778 ) who lived through the siege in Sarajevo. Their stories of what it's like are so vastly different than what you would ex
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Moving is expensive, getting a new job doesn't necessarily increases your income and potentially increases your income volatility: how stable is the new job? Will you get fired? When you have no extra cash, opportunity costs make some
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Paid Fellowship to Build Tech That Fights Poverty(labs.robinhood.org)
4 points by splitrocket 11y ago|0 comments
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood ( http://labs.robinhood.org/fellowship/ ) | Brooklyn, NY | Onsite | Full Stack Engineers, UI/UX Designers, Product Managers | Fulltime Paid 5 Month Fellowship Think the world doesn’t n
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Fellowship to build tech that makes a difference(labs.robinhood.org)
3 points by splitrocket 11y ago|0 comments
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Then you should be willing to suffer the consequences of truth telling. It's a fairly common pattern in history.
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by splitrocket 11y ago
However, mortality data would disagree. Generally speaking, in cities you are more likely to be the victim of homicide and crime. In suburban and rural environments you are substantially more likely to be killed/injured in general. ht
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Which is why, if you believe guns reduce violence, we should saturate such areas with guns. I highly doubt you'd be in favor of such a policy.
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Cosmic rays flip bits all the time: "one error per month per 256 MiB of ram was expected" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-...
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by splitrocket 11y ago
One of the many costs of poverty is the inability to suffer any opportunity cost whatsoever. Another is the lack of slack in both time and money: any shock is tremendously destructive. This totally makes sense.
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Spot on. What's fantastic about this is the open wifi in low income neighborhoods. If you look at Pew stats: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/us-smartphone-use-in-2... Low income folks increasingly
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Almost every residential and commercial building in NYC has fiber running in front of it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/09/verizon-will-miss... That last few feet? Dependent on landlords.
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by splitrocket 11y ago
Agreed.
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Thanks!
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Is dataset size the only autoscaling criteria? I.E. my data set is relatively small but with very large transaction volume. Additionally, do you have standard postgres modules installed? Specifically, at least for my use case, PostGIS?
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Hi! I'm the cofounder of Significance Labs. Just wanted to point out that all of our teams did extensive user interviews before landing on a product idea as well as usability tests during the development process. Some of our teams pivo
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by splitrocket 12y ago
It's quite simple: If you sell carriage of data between two parties, are responsible for the loss of said data, and sell to the general public, then yes, you should be considered a common carrier of data. http://en.wikipedia
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Thing about QOS is that if I buy a level of service from my ISP and you buy an equivalent or greater level of service from your ISP, you and I should be able to communicate at that level of service. The which bits we decide to send to each
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Do yourself a favor and google "bypass throttling", or better yet, VPN into a server with a real internet connection and try out Netflix or Youtube and be astounded by the difference, even with the encryption overhead. http:&#x2F
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Providing last mile service, be it electrical, water, gas, sewage, or TCP/IP is a natural monopoly. No one is going to build more than one sewage pipe to a customer. It only makes sense that we don't allow these natural monopolies
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by splitrocket 12y ago
The legality question is pretty much where we have always been: DMCA, FBI seizing of servers etc. etc. If it's illegal, the government can, has, and will continue to try to stop it.
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Hashicorp continues to kickass. However, I wonder why this isn't built into consul directly?
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Significance Labs - Brooklyn, NY - http://significancelabs.org/ We at Significance Labs believe that technology can help to solve real problems for low income Americans and we are looking for excellent engineers to help us
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Cortex: as a single datapoint, I'd pay a totally voluntary subscription for metafilter. Make it an option, and I'll do it.
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Essentially, yes. We figure that we can only really teach one thing: immersion and empathy with the communities we are trying to help. We can't really teach people how to develop products that people will really use, so we are trying t
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by splitrocket 12y ago
That's the deadline for the Fellowship. The deadline for applications for the Hackers In Residence is May 20th. See here: http://significancelabs.org/hackers/
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Well, Brooklyn for two reasons: it's where we are, and where our foundation is. It's also a place where there is a high density of low income communities. Let me try to put this into perspective: 615 thousand people live in public

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