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You can try this twitter thread from Kate Raworth https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1239596817463103489

You're welcome to join our team chat and we can discuss further (send me an email, address in profile, then I can invite you). (most relevant, but dated, PR is https://github.com/T…

The open source bit allows the ultimate step of forking the whole project, and that is important to me to be able to do that, but it's not a trivial step at all, and a lot of the u…

I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, we have an old work-in-progress pull request to import couchsurfing data ( https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1086 ), but it need…

I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, you're right about the governance topic, we have a do-ocracy approach right now (described a bit at the bottom of https://www.trustroots.org…

I'm one of the developers working on Trustroots. We're working on references :) I merged this PR yesterday https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1413 , there is a bit more …

> This is the real issue. Governments restrict housing supply for whatever misguided reasons and prices go up, those prices make it a good place to park cash. Government should sto…

> the final chord tells you the key That makes it sound like a definitive rule, but it's just a common convention.

You can extend this argument to banking though: If the U.S. pumps an endless supply of money into Haiti, how could Haitian banks hope to compete with their loan offers?

it declares jquery as a requirement but doesn't actually use it - https://github.com/gitboard/gitboard/blob/master/src/js/comp...

> Deaths per 100,000 people is probably the wrong figure to look at to determine the safety (or lack thereof) of driving. Kind of. It's useful to see the per distance and per popul…

The political country I have citizenship in has a name, it's written on my passport - it is not "England". Maybe you can see the problem if I explain it in this way: you can become…

The full name of the country is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" - calling it "Great Britain" is just wrong (it excludes Northern Ireland and all other smalle…

Use of ES6 classes would have been nice and I'd prefer to work with simple javascript objects to hold data vs rich model objects ( http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/tutorial/2-m…

Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :) I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have any insight into what …

I tried googling for H2 KVEngine but didn't come up with anything, did you mean http://www.h2database.com/html/mvstore.html perhaps?

How would you compare and contrast this with http://openhft.net/products/chronicle-queue/ ? (which I knows does a bunch more but seems like it could be used for this purpose too).

The conclusion is a lot more moderate than the title, the author actually uses dependency injection: While DI has benefits in some circumstances, such as shown in the Copy program,…

Changing the presentation often involves more than changing the CSS alone. For example, you might have a table of data that you want to change into a bootstrap .row/.col structure.…

The idea was approximately that html was the data and css was the presentation. In reality they are quite connected and you have to write the html to support how it will be present…