gills
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Comment · 10 years ago
WedWell has promise, but it is a difficult space. I began building on a very similar concept 8 years ago and quickly ended up pivoting off into a subproblem, because [at the time] this ultimately boiled down to quite a lot of manual human coordination which I couldn't scale. Running solo, I decided it was infeasible. If you can scale vendor coordination in the wedding space, and avoid the temptation to build the technically interesting parts yourself right away, I think there is a decent addressable market that can benefit from the technology.
Comment · 11 years ago
My neighborhood has possibly one of the more generous plantable right-of-ways in the city; the sum of plantable ROW is wider than the paved surface. But most places it seems to be 4-6 feet plantable, and denser areas completely paved.
Comment · 12 years ago
Wow. That looks inspired by a helicoptor's swashplate driven from the rotor side. Always fun to see an alternative engine design.
Comment · 12 years ago
Also, in the US, people are willing to work full time at whatever job will provide health insurance.
Comment · 12 years ago
TO loop this back around to the posted article, Seattle has a long and proud history of holdouts. Search for images of 'denny regrade' - long ago Seattle removed an entire hill, leaving quite a few of those "nail houses" (well, temporarily).
Comment · 13 years ago
I've got to agree with some of the comments here that this is insane. Sounds fun, but insane. There are probably 3 or 4 programming-intensive undergrad courses wound together here, with a more difficult substrate than your average compilers course.
Then I remember that this is the Internet, and if it's 'free' you're usually not looking at the product; but you can see it in the mirror.
Comment · 14 years ago
> Fiber networks? Their employees security by funding Police and the Military? Health care for their employees and customers?
Since the post complains largely about behavior in the United States, it seems a fair reminder that from this list Police and Military are paid through taxes, while the others are (for the majority) constitute private transactions for services which individuals have no inherent right to consume.
> No one wants to pay taxes but avoiding them is unethical
I am sure many here would be interested in how you would support this assertion.
Comment · 14 years ago
The module syntax and local relabeling reminds me of module syntax in PLT/Racket a couple years back. Given JavaScript's heavy scheme influence to begin with, it seems like a good thing to me.
Comment · 14 years ago
Passport. Credit Card. The rest is gravy.
Comment · 14 years ago
I also find it disturbing. This sort of thing is exactly why I disabled my account; the family and friends who use Facebook heavily have forgotten how to communicate directly, they rely entirely on shouting into the hurricane and expecting everyone to pay attention. Good luck with that.
Comment · 15 years ago
The piece does not address the fundamental point that you cannot with intellectual honesty claim as a right that which, to be satisfied, requires another human being to perform work.
Comment · 15 years ago
We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights. The work we do -- the value we create -- is for the rest of what we want: the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful, and purposeful.
So...nobody creates value (or performs work, for that matter) growing the food or building the shelters, right? Riiiiight...
Magical thinking at it's best.
Comment · 15 years ago
As you commented to someone else in an earlier branch, carry that out a few steps; why might healthcare costs rise so much faster than any reasonable measure of the output which funds both education and healthcare?. I don't know the answer. I think the point is that "health care" cannot be pointed out as the root cause, much as "markets" cannot be pointed out as the only solution.
Comment · 15 years ago
This seems inevitable, and positive. There are some friends of mine who dislike the resulting job shedding and concentration of wealth; I am not quite sure how that will shake out.
It will be interesting to see if today's 'software' disruptors will themselves disrupted by software. Today's revolution seems to me, a changing of the guard from the massive inefficient people-driven gatekeeper to the massive and lean software-driven gatekeeper. I wonder if the evolution of this will lead to decentralization and eventual diminution of today's usurpers?