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> We don't have a great democracy. But it's a democracy. "Democracy" is not binary. You can embody the idea of "democracy" to various degrees. For example, the US is…

The key words being "in a working democracy". I think the US has poor democracy. The electoral college means my vote here in California doesn't matter (I typically don't participat…

I wonder what impact the Bay Area's cost of living and out of control housing prices had on this. I believe the tech scenes in other cities like LA, Seattle, NYC, Austin, etc have higher growth …

It seems the human mishandled this as well calling Trudeau a premier.

I don't see it written explicitly; can anyone confirm that this journal is fully open-access?

Exactly, you owe them your labor while they're still paying you. If they gave you a signing bonus or something under the assumption that you'll stay for a certain amount of time, then they …

> So many companies would have to jump on board. Noob question: what companies would have to jump onboard to get a new record up and running? Could it not just be one company like DNSimple who fir…

Exactly, I've been using Jitsi Meet for over a year. It works in all browsers flawlessly, it's encrypted, it's open source and there's no account needed.

Right it would hypocritical to only apply the tax to new automation. To be fair, we'd have to tax tractors, ATMs and calculators too.

Some of these laws are so complex and interdependent that we need tools to help simplify them. If the publishers are allowed to paywall the law, then it'll be harder for startups like UpCodes to…

The fight is not over yet. Please consider donating to Public Resources, which runs on a shoestring budget, employing just one person, Carl Malamud, at a modest salary.

Yes, that would be one solution, but you'd have to somehow enforce that governments do that or else local governments may continue with the status quo. Also, there's the question of what to …

No! I have an extremely negative association with 538 (not their fault). I don't want to see that logo for at least another year.

Also, happy to get any feedback, ideas, criticism, etc

For me: https://canhazip.com/ returns: 2601:645:8104:b920:905c:9243:77f4:d57 https://myip.rest/ returns: { "ip": "24.7.88.203", "about":…

The author's theory is completely unsubstantiated. They make a surprising conjecture and instead of proving, asks the audience to disprove it: "I defy anyone who has worked in an office ove…

It's not an all-or-nothing decision. You can think Stallman is correct, but only heed parts of his advice. I use a lot of open-source software in part thanks to the inspiration I found in the f…

Interesting (but perhaps not surprising) that no one has mentioned Apple, while the other large tech companies have been mentioned multiple times.

I'm considering switching from Flask to Sanic, but I worry about Sanic's ecosystem. For example, I'm using these Flask plugins: Flask-Cache, Flask-Compress, Flask-DebugToolbar, Flask-D…

My sibling was an architect in NYC for a couple years. He found it very difficult to keep on top of the different regulations which are amended occasionally. They come in books, PDFs, old janky onli…

I just got a rejection email...

In San Francisco and the Bay Area, it does feel like there's a shortage of good developers. I say that because I know contractors (with a couple years of experience) who make $250 or $300 per ho…

It's only because of the heroic work of Carl Malamud that new services like up.codes is possible. This service will bring clarity to the insane complexity exhibited by construction regulation. (…

Yes a lot more heroes like Alexandra Elbakyan, but also people willing to send a bit of monetary support. I'll be sending $200 worth of bitcoin as a donation. Please consider donating $10 or $20…

Entrepreneurship is also about taking on the entrenched incumbents. Usually the incumbents have more political connections they can wield to pass anti-competitive measures that protect their turf.

Very cool!