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by splitrocket 12y ago
Social problems are both about the huge levers of society and government as well as a situation where poverty becomes a "death by a thousand cuts". I agree with you: the huge levers of social policy and economics make a huge diffe
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by splitrocket 12y ago
Hey! I'm one of the Cofounders of Significance Labs, and I completely agree with you. Our fundamental premise is that we don't understand the problems. That's why we are focusing on providing our fellows and hackers with exte
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Significance Labs: Hack on Real Social Problems(significancelabs.org)
39 points by splitrocket 12y ago|15 comments
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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
All of those factors have increased in the past twenty years and yet crime continues to fall. Your explanatory paradigm needs reworking.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
The problem is that for certain goods, the demand becomes completely inelastic for individuals: water, food, shelter, security. The starving are not, and cannot be, rational economic actors. Slightly redenominating prices would be a small p
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Currently I am at a cafe in Thailand, hanging out with a bunch of swedes from diverse backgrounds. Just asked them bout this. Apparently, notdrunkatall, according to my Swedish friends, you are incorrect, and that the welfare system is cons
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by splitrocket 13y ago
How do I have your position wrong? Please enlighten me. Telling me I suck at "this" is hardly informative or constructive. You indicated how a) this was a special case and that other types of people wouldn't behave similarly
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Arguably, still not actually wasted. Went back into the money supply, bought goods and services, contributed to the economy. Seriously, unless you have truly minimal savings rate like the dirt poor, when you pay taxes you are doing one of t
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by splitrocket 13y ago
From Milton Friedman, archmage of conservative, supply side economics: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish, he and his family will eat fish the rest of his life. Give a man a consistent supply of fish and maybe, instead of fishing all day to feed his family, he could go to trade school
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Define wasted. Was it burned? Unless you are talking about military expenditures, which have some of the lowest economic multipliers, it paid someone's salary, who in turn went and participated in the economy. Was it ideally spent? No,
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by splitrocket 13y ago
So, let me see if I have your position right: because some people will abuse a system that will improve things for many more people, we should not implement said system? Is that right? I think it is telling that you would rather not have on
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by splitrocket 13y ago
You don't understand economics. Demand for products creates jobs. If more people have more disposable income to buy products, demand for those products increase, and thus the demand for employees to create those products increases.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
As far as we understand physics, actually traveling through interstellar medium is very very slow. Light itself takes next to forever to go from here to there. Most likely, intelligent species realized it was much more fun to explore inner
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by splitrocket 13y ago
We launched our brand new service into production pointing the backend at our dev instance, at the office. The entire internet showed up at our wee little DSL connection, effectively DDOS-ing our office. We had to leave, go to a cafe with p
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by splitrocket 13y ago
I'd imagine that 100% of politicians are afraid the NSA will harass them if they opposed the NSA.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Those who would stop this cannot: their whole lives are also part of the surveillance state. Politicians,generals, senators, prime ministers and CEO's all: their dirty laundry and skeletons in the closet that they thought were secret a
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by splitrocket 13y ago
There are 17,576 possible 3 letter acronyms. I would argue that its awefully hard to find one that isn't overloaded. Worse even when your acronym is comunityn generated. "Matz' Ruby Interpreter" likely wasn't named by matz himself.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Do they have rights to Tyga and Soulja Boy's content? Typically that stuff is all packaged in the record label deal.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Well Done Linode. As with most things, you get what you pay for, and I'm willing to pay a bit of a premium for the rock solid (virtual) hardware and awesome support.
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by splitrocket 13y ago
Will my server have to support RANGE requests for all accelerated assets?
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by splitrocket 14y ago
For me, it's the availability of GPIO pinouts on the raspberry pi which make it so compelling for hacking.
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by splitrocket 14y ago
How the Dutch got their bike paths: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/how-the-du...
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Android Phone embedded in Magazine(boingboing.net)
1 points by splitrocket 14y ago|0 comments
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by splitrocket 14y ago
Yeah, I noticed that as well. I updated my list to reflect it.
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by splitrocket 14y ago
It's interesting to see who is on board, and who isn't. (on further review, some companies only provide an AAAA record for their "www" domain. Both www.bing.com and www.microsoft.com resolve, but do not respond to ping.) #ping6 google.c
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by splitrocket 14y ago
Seems to break if you have a link without an href. It also seems to blow away any previous listeners places on elements. Any plans to have callbacks for events so that listeners can be re-bound? Aside from that, looks totally sweet. I'm goi
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by splitrocket 15y ago
I've used frickle's ngx_cache_purge in production for over a year: it is rock solid. I'm looking forward to finding a use for this plugin! thanks!
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Yes. I hire excellent people who are interested and interesting that fit into the culture of our company. Age/sex/race/gender/etc. are irrelevant.

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