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Hmm, but isn't the cliche that people with more future ahead of them live more recklessly, take more things for granted, "waste" more time, etc – that "what really counts in life" becomes especially apparent when some threat instills a sense of urgency?

People might stop caring about their communities because of a prolonged phase of youthful self-centeredness and a lack of any urgency?

Wikipedia has some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland

Do you have a link for "the left wing" demanding a 50% gender quota in the military?

"Having no political agenda" often turns out to mean agreement with/uncritical acceptance of the dominant political agenda. The status quo is perceived as a natural order or default state of the world, instead of the result of the current distribution of influence and the ideology of those in power. Thus proclaiming "neutrality" is often in fact a statement of conservativism / siding with the currently privileged / rejecting any motive for progress. If you (fail to) calibrate your world view like that, criticizing the progressive left or at least equating the left and the right-of-what's-mainstream as equally unnecessary/hysterical/dismissable "extremes" follows.

(Just an aside: Wikipedia says "the frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a 'perfect market')

- Because the criteria of "merit" usually "just happen" to be a description of the people who get to define them and evaluate others.

- Because measuring only at the finishing line while ignoring how far people have had to come is in fact unequal, not equal treatment.

- Because the concept victim-blames those who aren’t allowed/enabled/supported to succeed according to it.

- Because it's a really astounding statistical anomaly that all those "meritocratic" communities "who don't care about gender etc." are in practice ridiculously less diverse than the population in general.

The Great Suspender will remove the tab's contents from memory after a freely configurable time, while still keeping it where it was in case you want to get back to it later. I've found that this works best for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

I work for the Pirate Party MEP in the Parliament. My understanding is that this is mostly about German (and to a lesser degree Spanish) publishers putting pressure on Google for their various interests, including that they want to be paid when Google uses snippets of their content in Google News: https://juliareda.eu/2014/11/breaking-up-google-or-just-bank...

In addition to those mentioned already:

* http://liquidfeedback.org (used by Pirate Parties in several countries as well as the M5S movement in Italy)

* https://adhocracy.de

* https://www.loomio.org

A related US-based project is https://makeyourlaws.org

We will be recording the software implementation presentations, but probably not the more informal workshops on the second day.

He's not "falling for" him, he (probably) is him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664621

The TorrentFreak version is missing a few of the more personal paragraphs about Julia Reda's experience visiting him. His statements are intact.

That assumption is an oversimplification, concealing myriad dependencies, power/negotiating imbalances, information asymmetry, imperfect markets, lack of choice, restricted individual freedom, etc.

You just need to scroll down from the video. I missed that too... I fault Apple for killing scroll bars.

"Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help" from 10 days ago: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay...

"We take a double-pronged approach: (1) Narrow the gap so that advances for the rich world reach the poor world faster, and (2) turn more of the world’s IQ toward devising solutions to problems that only people in the poor world face."

We need a BIG because it is becoming a required human right in an information society. More and more, power and opportunity are determined by access to information, and we're making strides in democratizing that and thereby decentralizing power. But to actually realize the benefits from increased access to information requires freedom from existential fear (and education and a mostly discrimination-free society). If we do not fix these problems, we're not improving the world with all our wonderful tech tools but establishing a digital elite.

We need a BIG because it encourages risk taking. Society is built largely on the backs of low-wage laborers, but actually benefits most from free, educated, motivated people chasing not just a living wage but a fulfilling occupation. The ingenuity of human minds is our greatest, most renewable, still hugely untapped resource. It should be society's goal to enable and tap that potential. YCombinator sort of pays smart people BIs for a summer not as a reward for work but to ENABLE them to work, to great benefit (though not entirely unconditionally, obviously). When and why have we given up hope of expanding such concepts to all of society?

We need a BIG because markets are made of people, which means there can be no free market without free people. Many people today are not free but under economic duress. Only once people's livelihoods are secured, the labor market will produce win-win situations and exploitation will be eliminated (giving everyone a benefit most of us techies already enjoy). Finally, jobs will be paid what they're actually worth to us rather than what employers can get away with. Unpopular tasks will have to be fairly (=highly) paid or automated. A BIG actually perfects capitalism, rather than undermining it.

We need a BIG because it's not possible to "live off the land" by your own labor anymore in our society. An income is required for survival.

We need a BIG because progress is eliminating (the need for) many low-wage, manual labor jobs. "Full employment" is becoming less and less necessary or desirable.

We need a BIG because many tasks society benefits from aren't paid: Caring for the elderly, raising kids,... but even writing open source software or contributing to Wikipedia. People doing such work today are either privileged, dependent on others or in precarious living conditions. All of these strike me as things we should work to avoid.

We need a BIG because it is fair and simple – paid not just to the jobless, but everyone. It is empowerment rather than a bureaucratically administered handout with all kinds of social stigma attached.

Or we'll build the museums around the spacecraft, perfectly co-moving. Visitors will be able to walk around them and admire their antique workmanship as they obliviously continue their steady journey.

You can fairly easily use /dialog/feed "manually" instead of sharer.php if you're worried about the latter's lifespan – you just need to set up an app for your domain first since "app_id" is a required param (and also "next", which is a redirect URI on the same domain). Example: http://antiprism.eu/en#share

On April 29 I received a notice from admin@nic.io concerning user-generated content that I was to remove from an IO domain "by April 2" (ie a month earlier) - otherwise they would advise the complaintant to contact law enforcement and would suspend the domain "upon receipt of a formal request to do so". When I attempted to reply, the email address was out of order ("Write error: Broken pipe") and remained so for several days.

It doesn't seem to be the most professionally run domain...

Did you know their rules state: "No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation."?

The laws of ANY nation?! I founded a UGC .io startup in 2007 (we were the biggest .io site for quite a while), and while we never had any trouble, I find that clause worrisome.

So are you making one?

Here's one specific list: http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html

"Furthermore, even in the brutal-rape case, the child is not harmed when a third party makes copies of the video."

What about the privacy rights of the victim? The argument could easily be made that a child can be traumatized all over again when finding out years later a recording of their abuse is spread far and wide on the internet and they have no chance of ever curtailing it. Whether it's feasible to prevent that (as with any other information) is another question, but copying images of child abuse doesn't seem that victimless a crime to me.

There is a second meetup tomorrow, as far as I can tell: https://www.facebook.com/maltman23/posts/10150415871850918

Mitch's Google Group for the meetups is here: http://groups.google.com/group/geeksanddepression

That's common: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

Maybe give this game a shot, that a game designer created after herself having suicidal thoughts – it's a playful way to get you to do things that help when you're depressed (talking to people, focusing on short term plans, finding things that make you happy, etc): https://www.superbetter.com

On iOS4, you need to trigger 3D acceleration to get acceptable redraw performance. You do this by using a 3D CSS transformation to move the object the user is dragging (translate3d with a z value of 0). The upcoming iOS5 is much better in this regard, and makes just setting .left and .top acceptable, so you could also just wait it out.

The US Social Security online services are also suspended at night (see right column, operating hours): http://www.ssa.gov/onlineservices/

The code is public domain (but also kinda sucks – I wrote it). http://canvaspaint.org/blog/2008/02/code-released-into-publi...

Whoa, that's a surprise – I wrote this back in late 2006 and it has been unmaintained since then. A lot has happened in the <canvas> world in the past four and a half years (font drawing API, get/setImageData, lots of implementation improvements and bugfixes).

Hackerspaces are something very different from incubators, so that's not a fair comparison. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace