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It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one …

Congrats on the launch! Looks like you can only play one game as a guest before getting stuck in a loop when hitting "play now" between "forgot to buy items?" and "you must be logg…

I recommend: - Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer - Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

The cool thing is that you can, with the BEAM, connect your shell[0] to a running server and use something like recon_trace[1] to watch functions as they’re getting called. The sam…

I've been finding Livebook ( https://livebook.dev/ ) really useful for iterating on a script or manipulating some data in a reproducible way. I'll often try out one solution and if…

There's also defining a module and then `import`ing it.

I tried averaging embeddings at first but a GPT-3 prompt gave more interesting results!

Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.

Go for it! Really enjoying it :)

Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.

This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash ( https://ash-hq.org/ ) and is deployed on Fly.io. Some fun ones: - imagina…

The point of the control room in CyberSyn wasn't to make second-by-second or minute-by-minute decisions but rather on longer timescales like days or weeks. In Brain of the Firm, Be…

Alternatively: “For what reason did you not choose...”

Didn’t Alan Kay coin the term “object oriented”?

Make sure you have vesting (and check the footnotes): https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...

For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only impl…

I think the implication is that it's captured via salaries paying high rent.

> - However the worst thing so far to me has been i have watched as UI developers go from writing simple rest queries, and doing a bit of work on the front-end to writing extremely…

> There was an uproar about the legality of Trump's travel bans, but followed by a 7-0 supreme court victory on the subject. Weren't there multiple versions that went through the c…

It's the same Bigelow creating inflatable space habitats: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16488646/bigelow-aerospa...

The data set could be really useful.

Hi Alex! I don't have the answer, but I just sent this over to Seth. Looking forward to seeing you all again in December!

Alternatively, the question is a proxy for: Are there people that look like me? Will my opinions be heard by others?