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Taking jobs? Who, is giving them illegal jobs?

Why aren't people talking about this and doing something about it?

"Nobody knows I'm New Wave" - Kurt Cobain

I can't resist - I've been trying to get an invite for awhile now. Thanks!

zhym4g7v AT duck.com

Ken Isaacs - How to Build Your Living Structures

https://archive.org/details/How.To.Build.Your.Own.Living.Str...

This link is super interesting! Watched this not long ago and wanted to take a tour through parts of Japan to see how they make things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBplPrX69M

There was a 10 year or so build up prior to Nevermind where punk (and it's variants) were not being played on the radio (obviously, which was still relevant then). You didn't hear Black Flag, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü et al. on the radio except perhaps a specialty show or on college radio. That pressure was building every year and so was the fan base. People were tired of hearing The Who all the time..."corporate rock".

MTV's 120 Minutes was essential stuff back in the day.

I grew up in Seattle - friends were telling me for years before Nevermind about Nirvana. They were building a reputation slowly across the US. Subpop was helping, they had a national network, but not fast enough. Once Nirvana had a major label marketing for them - things went crazy.

Nirvana was that magic mix of punk/hard rock and pop that broke the dam - and the audience was ready to go.

In 2008 I made onemilescroll.com with Daniel Eatock. It was a fun project where we allowed users to post things at whatever height. It wasn't nearly as rigorous as WHW. Eventually it required updates...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160303050135/http://www.onemil...

Why stop at four?

Very corrupt political and wealthy class for starters. If you want to do some research look into the Petrocaribe scandal and the recent assassination of the president. I lived there for five years (until 2019) and everything got a little more worse month after month. By the end, we were lucky if we had 10 hours of grid power in a typical week (when we arrived we had consistently 14 hours per day).

Add me to the list of NYT subscription failures. Sorry NYT, but I will never sign up again (and I think you are a good newspaper) unless you come clean about these lame practices.

No knead bread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU

Yes.

A friend visited recently, within three days with very little time outside, their throat was burning.

I recently moved to Kathmandu, Nepal (I'm a US citizen). The air quality is debilitating. All the gyms I've looked at (except the American Club which costs $100/month) have open windows, so you are more or less unable to exercise unless you have a gym at home and an air purifier. We have an AP but when the wind blows the right direction our sensor reports sometimes as high as 200 - it comes in under the door (we are searching for a solution). Let's hope it never gets this bad in the US.

Perhaps we should convince their group that berberechos are a new discovery?...haha. I'm in Kathmandu and today at my local market chain (Big Mart) I found frozen ostrich meat - an interesting surprise.

As long as Reddit is not down everything is OK.

This seems like a good moment to remind about Jürg Lehni & Uli Franke's Hektor (2002): http://juerglehni.com/works/hektor.

The bigger story is the missing $2B - the story does touch upon that. Many contracts were handed out for works to companies owned by people in government or their friends and the works were not done.

People are so exhausted from the aforementioned demonstrations I doubt anybody will demonstrate based on this new information. (I know people who went two weeks without any water in their home.) I just can't imagine Moise remains president for much longer. Note: I live in Haiti.

Yes. I also grew up with Simon in the background. And also alot of Earth Wind and Fire. My parents were immigrants and we had alot of different music around the house. But, Talking Heads for me were the seminal band. Byrne/Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was such an exotic album I started searching the world for other sounds. When I bought my first Fela Kuti album around 1985 my friends thought it was very strange.

It was a very special time for music. I became a collector (I got employee discounts at Tower even though I didn't work there). But, when Nirvana hit the big time, labels stopped promoting that kind of music (I don't like the term 'world music' either - Byrne wrote an essay about that). The focus went elsewhere, and to be honest, it hasn't been the same since (confirmed by some friends at some special record labels).

I lived in Mauritania for five and half years and on two occasions a friend saw snow flurries in northern areas of the country. It's probably more common than we know.

I think bikes are going to be bigger than electric cars.

There was significant investment and most of that has lead to very little. There are efforts recently trying to do more complicated textile manufacturing but I have heard that factory owners aren't interested in doing more than simple things. Probably for a variety of reasons including lack of skilled workers, training, etc. The only electronics I have heard about (I live in Haiti) is Surtab (http://surtab.com/).

In 1981, when I was 12 years old, I visited my brothers university to watch him graduate. I didn't have much to do so they showed me the computer they had installed in one of the study rooms at his fraternity. It had a phone modem - they connected me to the campus network so I could play around. At the time everything was run out of one of the campus libraries. So, finding it all rather boring, I turned on a nearby stereo and put the phone to the speaker for a minute or so. Afterwards, I could no longer use the computer so I turned it off and went to wander campus. While I was away the library (security?) visited the fraternity wanting to know who crashed their network. Nobody even suspected it was me. They were told that they might face a temporary suspension. I only found out about this part 20 years later. So, which university was it? Stanford. ;)

I don't really have much to add to this discussion, but I absolutely love what you are doing. Swoon! ;)

Hmmm, what about all the failed Kickstarters?

Here's another one worth a half a million bucks, with a rock-star co-founder (Yugo Nakamura), and two years later almost zero delivery. Just more empty promises and lack of delivery (except they have been selling at MOMA since last September):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353046055/framed-a-rev...

It's ridiculous the way they hand out the ability to make comments. These days, the comments are so watered down many of them are mostly useless. "Tell us about your process"..."tell us more about onboarding". Comments are filled with marketers and friend of friends egging things along without substance. It's hurting the site - if they don't see this they are really missing the boat.

That being said, it's sad to see people rip on others sites/ideas blatantly. OpenHunt should quickly come up with an original design and find something unique in their approach.

I have a few friends in Greece who will do anything to avoid paying taxes. Sadly, they think Greece will be the next Iceland and it's just not the right comparison.

Yep, nationalism is on the rise and it's a bit ugly. As a US citizen living in Europe for over 10 years now, I wish that people would just get along. There is a deep lack of faith and trust between people. And, furthermore, that the economies would get much closer together so ordering something from one EU country and having it delivered to another wasn't such a damn pain.

A similar thing happened to me years ago. I had a project that surprisingly became a bit popular and there were two competitor projects that ripped on the work.

The first one ripped our entire site and simply changed all the texts slightly, and also the look of our system. But, it was oddly different code - why copy the look completely (including our graphics) if you are going to write a new system?

The second one, done by a somewhat semi-famous person at the time, copied our minimal, custom forum. I have no idea how much work that must have been to port Vanilla to look like ours. Friends asked me if I had joined their team which is how I found out.

I never publicly said anything which chewed me up for a really long time. Both of those projects failed long ago. A copycat likely also won't know how to do other things for themselves and you can bet that they won't know how to execute their project when things get serious.

Cushionapp, you're doing it right. Make your app as innovative and unique as you can and just keep doing your thing. Never bother looking at their site/app again...