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cmacpher··on Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy Uses L.L.C. For More Control
what 3?
cmacpher··on Show HN: Adblock Analytics
This is pretty trivial to implement in GA. I could see why people would want this service
cmacpher··on Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
He still could. In the AMA he seems to like Sanders a bit, but Lessig advocated a different approach that he "thought" would be more effective. Now that Lessig has realized it didn't work, I wouldn't be surprised by an endorsement.
cmacpher··on The Story of Surface Book
The macbook is absurdly light. The Surface book weighs a little bit less than the 13 in macbook pro. The surface book competes with the macbook pro 13 more directly in terms of performance and price.
cmacpher··on Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn from It)
I'm skeptical that the core issue with twitter is abuse. It is certainly rampant and should be addressed. I'm skeptical an average users with 130 followers(a guess) experiences any abuse.

The on boarding of new users and the echo chamber effect seem like a much bigger issue.

cmacpher··on A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
intuitively people with higher incomes should more to charity. However, a recent study found the rich DO NOT give a higher proportion of their income to charity. Incomes of $25,000 or less a year gave away an average of 4.2 percent of their incomes; those with earnings of more than $75,000 gave away 2.7 percent.

There are certainly a number of things that could explain this.

cmacpher··on A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
totally on board with something like this. I never understand why people say market forces will solve global warming, pollution and the future of energy.

Pollution is THE textbook case for an externality. By definition it cant be fixed by the free market.

cmacpher··on A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
I haven't heard about that. do you have a source where I could read more?
cmacpher··on A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
It was MUCH worse before. a 27% reduction in poverty is pretty impressive in 4 years
cmacpher··on A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee
Alaska solves this partially solves this problem by setting a timeframe. You must live there for 1 year. Same idea could potentially be used (but maybe extended because of larger $)
cmacpher··on Should I Work for Free?
the z-indexing on this is maddening!
cmacpher··on Show HN: Down – The easiest way to get together with friends
This actually looks really useful.
cmacpher··on Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
Only thing I agree on in this article is that equity based crowdfunding is a bad idea
cmacpher··on We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript
totally broke when i tried to snip.ly the medium post
cmacpher··on [dead]
Chrome extension to block whatever you want https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/silencer/liddmepma...
cmacpher··on How we're going to change Georgia Tech
wow this is eerily similar to what we are doing at Purdue with The Anvil Cowowrking space: http://theanvil.us/ and the BoilerMake hackathon: http://boilermake.org/. Glad to see other students making moves as well. I'll be sure to reach out