saikat
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Comment · 4 years ago
It seems like a good case for growing these trees for the lumber industry, both to sequester this carbon for good and to provide a faster timeline for harvesting timber which could decrease lumber costs. A good time for it too given the way lumber costs have been going. Is this something you are considering? Is the wood from the trees you are growing suitable for construction of any form?
Comment · 6 years ago
I have seen no proposal for a wealth tax that is not a marginal wealth tax, in which case the math in this essay is wrong. The Warren wealth tax, for example, is for wealth over $50 million.
Comment · 6 years ago
The math on this is incorrect. This is not how a marginal tax works. I have not seen any proposals for wealth taxes that are not marginal after a certain (usually very high) level of wealth.
For example, the Warren wealth tax only kicked in after $50 million.
Comment · 9 years ago
US manufacturing output has had a boom because we include natural gas and oil as manufacturing output, not just because of automation.
Comment · 9 years ago
Awesome song! Though I think it's more likely that Coolio got the base melody for Gangsta's Paradise from Stevie Wonder, and Amish Paradise grabbed it from Coolio since Amish Paradise is a parody of Gangsta's Paradise.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Having worked with a lot of Javascript frameworks aimed at creating web applications/SPAs (used Cappuccino to build a wireframing tool, Backbone.js to build a dashboard for a payments provider, React/Relay to build a phone calling tool and events platform, and now React/Apollo to build a peer-to-peer texting tool), I can say that React/Apollo/GraphQL is my new go-to stack for new JS projects. It's a pleasure to work with, and a lot of the pain points of creating large apps with JS in the past are handled very well. Congrats to the Apollo team!
Comment · 10 years ago
I used Slava's blog to learn about Lisp and went on to build a product with Weblocks, which was a continuations-based web framework that Slava created back in the day (I only recently finally deleted a forgotten 8-year old todo about merging in my refactored Weblocks formview). Random trivia (kind of) - the syntax and concepts in Weblocks actually bear some resemblance to Goat, which is a framework that Patrick had created and used to build the original version of the Stripe dashboard (likely just because both of them come from a Lisp-heavy background).
I had just started a new company using RethinkDB, and it was definitely poised to be my go to database for new projects. Anyway, all this is to say, for someone who I know only through his works, I have great respect for Slava and want to thank him for the work he's done. Here's to hoping that RethinkDB finds a way to continue.
Comment · 10 years ago
Project Name: Brand New Congress Technology
Project Description: Brand New Congress is an initiative to primary most of the existing incumbents in Congress with a representative group of progressive people who all agree to enact an aggressive progressive platform once they are elected. You can learn more about our goals and what we're trying to do on https://brandnewcongress.org. The tech team at Brand New Congress works on a variety of tools that will help bring about the revolution, and we are currently focusing a lot on expanding our website and making it way more awesome.
What do you hope to build this month? Our main focus this month is to create an awesome events portal like map.berniesanders.com v2.0 (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/website/issues/98), update our dashboard to make it the central hub of where all our volunteers are looking everyday to see how BNC is doing (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/dashboard), and updating our current sign up and donation flow (https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/website/issues/85). In general, we'd love to use these tasks as a way to find someone that would be willing to take on a leadership role and be able to commit a decent amount of time every week to keep our website updated and think up new ways to use our site/tech stack.
What kind of skills do you need? Our projects are currently largely Javascript/React based. We're starting to play around with Apollo and GraphQL as our data layer, but don't worry if you don't already know about those technologies as they are pretty new and we'll teach you.
Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room. https://github.com/BrandNewCongress/welcome
Comment · 11 years ago
Greg's not a founder of Stripe. And who asks that question?
Comment · 13 years ago
The interface builder equivalent these days for Cappuccino is interface builder. You can actually create your Cappuccino UIs in IB.
Comment · 13 years ago
You actually don't pay for failed auth attempts with Stripe, but you do with most other gateways.
Comment · 14 years ago
Btw, this has since been changed to: https://github.com/isaacsanders/omniauth-stripe-connect
Comment · 14 years ago
For anyone looking for a nice subprocess library for Ruby, my friend Greg released one earlier this week - https://github.com/gdb/rubysh