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Having a random quantum seed to an otherwise opaque internal process is still a far cry from free will and agency. Consider thermodynamics: even without quantum weirdness, we can't…

Terry Bouricius (Vermont politician) has a draft book on this topic (link below). He used to be a strong advocate for electoral reform, but after seeing Citizen Assemblies in actio…

Mario Kart 8 is now frozen, no more patches to come.

We, as in humanity, haven't even figured out how to support the people we already have. We never have. Even without the threat of climate change, billions are under-nourished. High…

Also: friends don't let friends use line graphs when the data is not continous between the sampled points. (bar graphs are typically more appropriate)

It's typically easier to make money from concentrations of money (rich individuals and companies), and those tend have more gain opportunities than problems (because they've alread…

Starting with "problems" is already cutting out half of the kinds of businesses that exist. I much prefer the "jobs-to-be-done" framing: people and organizations desire certain thi…

I made a tool like this for our team a while back, and made it available for free: https://decidedly.so Would love to hear your thoughts or anyone else's. (Fun aside: I ended up im…

FYI now there’s also :user-invalid which waits for the user to blur out of the field before it indicates the validity.

This only follows under the assumption that a company only derives value from the labour of its employees, ie. “there is only labour”. But there are many other kinds of assets - ca…

...and, there's nothing particularly preventing a similar approach in JS (keywords would need to be strings, and... data manipulation in JS is relatively a huge pain compared to Cl…

For anyone interested in a slightly lighter Diplomacy, I recommend checking out Game of Thrones the board game. Like Diplomacy, it can be played with no randomness, but the way ord…

If we could afford to live in a world where everyone was given $5000/mth, would we want such a world? (where work was optional) I think yes. ...can we afford that? At this point, p…

Some scarce things that everyday people want are likely to go up in price (ex. rent in cities that are already struggling with housing prices). Some things may drop in price (highe…

Existing social insurance schemes typically are of the form: you get $1000/mth, but, if you do any work, it subtracts from your payment. So, if you work less than $1000/mth, you're…

Ctrl-H , or, in project.clj, remove the line ":preloads [day8.re-frame-10x.preload]" and restart the REPL.

I hear your concern. Would the ability to "disable auto-creation of tags" solve your problem?

If you're using Slack/etc. primarily for "optional conversations", where not-reading or not-participating is no big deal, then Braid's design adds nothing for you. But, if you are …

Not at the moment, but it is a pull-request away. :P I'll put adjustable-width-threads on our roadmap. ...but if anyone reading this wants to work on it, it would make a decent 'fi…

Re: letting them go... I guess it depends on how you use chat. For us, most conversations in Braid are bonafide work conversations that are important and can't be skipped (ex. we r…

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The UI is based on side-scrolling, which works best with trackpad, but, I use a mouse and it works okay. In practise, I tend to go through conversations 1-by-1 and either reply and…

"multiple conversations all jumbled up" is exactly what initially motivated me to start hacking on Braid. Braid's search is certainly something that can be improved. In practice, i…

Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here. We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that "chatrooms" didn't promote good asyn…