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typeformer··on Show HN: Quid – try micropayments instead of ads or subscriptions
I think Flattr now has a system that is close to what you describe for YouTube. Micropayments are hard and Patreon is the 1st company to produce serious results experiments like Steem are interesting but siloed in the cryptosphere.
typeformer··on Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
No, organic regs in the US are not at all equivalent with Swiss Bio regs.
typeformer··on Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
Great points,

I still think this coming despite all of the reasonable limitations you listed. Our society will desire some form of authenticity and I can imagine an alliance of companies coming together to provide that.

typeformer··on Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
Let’s make it
typeformer··on Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
Well, I was thinking it may be easier to establish and verify chain of ownership and attribution via blockchain vs just public key.
typeformer··on Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
Wow! Another incredible consequence of this tech is that it will actually make blockchain based confirmations of unadulterated digital assests a valuable and needed service as the amount of well crafted fakes soars exponentially. A service that I didn’t see having a big amount of market potential now seems essential.
typeformer··on BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
Not even Google has come anywhere close to being able to make complex NN models that have a human interperable "receipt" for decisions. In fact, for certain classes of problem solving it's likely impossible and that is already a huge problem.
typeformer··on InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely
Ready? Have you tried out Webflow?
typeformer··on In defense of functional CSS
I use Webflow so I don't have to deal with these types of decisions.
typeformer··on Despite Restrictions on Freedom, China Is Leading the Mobile Innovation Race
The app she is using is Alipay made by Amazon competitor Alibaba.
typeformer··on Jeff Dean’s ML System Architecture Blueprint
No love for bad Jeff Dean jokes here I guess.
typeformer··on Jeff Dean’s ML System Architecture Blueprint
The blueprint calls for the AI to train on a data set of everything Jeff Dean does or thinks for the entirety of his life.
typeformer··on Game Workers Unite
Solidarity!
typeformer··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
Uber is a corporation, so it as a legal entity is liable, any kind of individual liability is possible to be litigated but very difficult to win. One problem is that corporate charters once granted are never revoked so corporations just keep doing terrible things and diffusing the costs of their actions onto society with minuscule repercussions. You can bet if I was looking down at my phone and not at the road and then hit a woman in the dark (all captured on camera) I would be going to jail... But, Uber has done some really despicable things (stealing the medical records of a rape victim to use for intimidation), and now they've likely killed someone and no one will ever see cell time.
typeformer··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
UBER is a terrible company period.
typeformer··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
Yeah and killed an innocent person!
typeformer··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
I think it was extremely irresponsible of the officers on the scene to imply that there was "nothing that could be done" or a lack of fault before a real investigation had even started!
typeformer··on Worker-owned businesses: 'We get paid the same regardless of role'
German companies are pretty great at finding the balance between corporate profitability and worker interests.
typeformer··on Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code
This is awesome I hope a company like Webflow considers buying you out or building something similar.
typeformer··on Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning
I could outrun you using Webflow...
typeformer··on Ask HN: Coinbase took my money, what should I do?
Make a stink on social media especially reddit .
typeformer··on How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
The first intellectual property fight was over the ability to copy a bible. It lead to a multiyear war where many were killed and later to the schism in the church.
typeformer··on The End of Gratipay
I met Chad and I knew right away he was gentleman and a scholar.
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
Yeah, there could be a good idea there! Things have to happen at the cultural level too, but I'm all for experiments!
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
We do, it's called taxes. The noble economist Elinor Olstrom refuted the Tragedy of Commons by showing that the communities who are the most dependent on a resource are best folks to manage it. We need more local advocates engaged, and more pushback, we need to shame these fuckers and I hope this article gets people angry.
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
Probably, but I've seen a few signs that we're polite and clear about what was public and what was private.
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
The research is clear that Community Land Trust work, for both land management and for affordable housing. We need more CLT's and Co-ops all over this country.
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
This is very true, changing that law would be totally catastrophic!
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
This isn't a local or non-locals issue, but it's just that due to the social dynamics of Montana it can get framed in those terms. But, really this is about public access to the public lands which should be sacred, constitutional even, like in Sweden.
typeformer··on The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains
I'm actually working on a solar punk book about this topic too, hehe. It can be hard to articulate but the word that does it best is "wetiko". No book has impacted me more in my worldview in the last three years than, "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes, a native professor who started the first Native American Studies Program.

If you read only one single book this year, please read this small powerful book. On a personal note, my father didn't teach me much very much technically, or set the greatest example, but he did share his love of Montana, Flyfishing, the rivers and the mountains with me when I was young and I'm forever be grateful to him for that (even if he kind of an asshole). He taught me to respect nature, and leave no trace, values that he learned from my grandfather when they went on Sierra Club trips together. I spent 17 amazing years in Montana, some of the very best of my life and I hear it calling me back. I'm getting a bit emotional as I type this, but even if it takes humanity a while to articulate it exactly, and much will be left unspoken, we know what is missing, we feel it deep down, and no amount of tech or money will ever fill that void. We need to move in harmony with the natural world and each other "be in right relations" as many first nations people call it. It will take time, be more than anything it will take some soul searching and courage.

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