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grpon DIY makers who build their own watches

It's still a work in progress but there is an initiative at openmovement:

https://www.openmovement.org/?konzept

I'm a watchmaking engineer and I know two people on the project, I'll be pleased to tell them any feedback.

By the way the watch you linked is a clone of Unitas 6497, the work is awesome nonetheless.

grpon The Screenless Office

It is possible to do this with cwm (calm window manager) from OpenBSD; there is a linux port.

It's awesome, the first times in a long time that I have the feeling of "job done" when I shut down the computer.

I was previously using a tilling window manager (xmonad), but you can always collect garbage on another workplace.

With cwm, the possibility to really hide a window or to group them is unbelievable.

grpon A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

Oh yeah, Multi Level Marketing companies everywhere!

grpon A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

In case of interest, Duniter is a similar initiative: https://duniter.org/en/theoretical/

grpon A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

Try "purchasing power of $your_currency" and you will find stuff like that:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/buying-power-us-dollar-centu...

grpon Facebook Is Looking for Employees with National Security Clearances

From the article: These types of employees are needed when private companies interact and share information back and forth with government agencies.

grpon Simulacra and Simulation

In [0], Baudrillard himself: "The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce."

[0] http://www2.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol1_2/genosko.ht...

grpon Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent

If Google and Facebook aren't good, I'm not sure that the European version would be good..

grpon A Bigger Mathematical Picture for Computer Graphics [video]

Nice to see Curtis Roads in the thesis!

grpon Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?

Anarchy for all.

grpon Quitting Caffeine

Same reasons why I quit coffee 7 years ago.

It's not even hard. Coffee is only useful for zombies.

grpon Quitting Caffeine

>> It is unclear whether the benefits are significant enough to "treat" patients with chronic liver disease.

From the abstract, they never say it prevent liver cancer.. but maybe that could help if you already have a big liver disease.

grpon Macron emails leaked by wikileaks

Rather 40% newsletters, 40% expense reports (note de frais).

grpon Unix Time 1500M – Friday July 14 02:40UTC

Tesla was not the first one and is not the only electric car manufacturer. Nobody needs Tesla.

grpon Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France

Please, don't misunderstand me.

special visa doesn't mean no visa.

myths and fantasies are not about their degrees but more on the public image we have of us who do more harm than good in my opinion.

"Rather than placing tech leaders on a pedestal, we should put their successes in context..." [1]

I would never advise someone to drop school without a strong family background, a solid bubble opportunity or just luck. And I don't like schools, for me they are clearly not the best places to learn, just to network.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...

grpon Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France

Yeah, and they would never have needed a special visa.

It's sad, there is so much myths and fantasies around those specific guys.

grpon Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France

You'll need to go to Paris for a medical check that you can do your job. All French employees must do this. And you have to do it every two years. Pee in a cup. Undress over there.

Is it a joke? Never heard of that in 30 years..

grpon Let employees work from home

Can we take into account some really big open source projects?

grpon The Patek Philippe Caliber 89 and Horology’s Easter Problem

Maybe you will be interested by the perpetual calendar patents of Ludwig Oeschlin for Ulysse Nardin.

(Note that perpetual calendars are relatively more simpler complications to design and make).

So it is possible, but hard to fit into a watchmaking piece!

grpon Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

Like clash [0]?

[0] http://www.clash-lang.org/ ?

grpon We’ve lost control of our personal data, including 33M NetProspex records

.. and is good when you are the trash..

grpon True Colour support in various terminals

It only improves images, no?

grpon Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Check: https://www.pcengines.ch/

Maybe you can get some alternatives based on those cards.

grpon Facebook to Open Startup Garage at Station F in Paris

Still so actual..!

Did you read Discipline and punish, I learned what is a panopticon in that book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish

grpon Visiting a site that uses Disqus when not logged in sends URL to Facebook

I believe ghostery is one of those kind of adblockers that checks if the ads and trackers target the right people, no?

Sort of a meta-tracker. But maybe I'm too paranoid.

grpon The threat of technological unemployment

The 1% have to much power to slow down and to capture (as soon as possible, so when states comes in) that kind of initiatives.

Look at the stories of alternatives energies.

The trick is here, I think too, but really hard with no free time.

edit: Maybe the automatization of the expropriation of the 1% won't be captured..

grpon The threat of technological unemployment

Socialists never tried (or wanted) to be good entrepreneurs. I think it's ok when you want to end slavery and alienation.

grpon The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation

In the late 19th, there was nearly the same conflicts areas as today, some european wars and massive colonization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_1800%E2%80%9399

grpon The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation

We have to feel bad because they lost their main (and I think only) source of income, not because they lost their jobs.

Nobody has to be forced to reconsider his career (so his entire life..) when we just have to cut the link between work and salary that we learn at school.

grpon A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees

I think it depends on the source of pressure.

The Capital for economic migrants and the State for war refugees.