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If we take freedom and openness for granted, we’ll lose both. That’s already happening, and we need to fight back. The question is how.
In this 15 minute tutorial we’re going to build a simple decentralized chat application which runs entirely in a web browser. All you will need is a text editor, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of how to save HTML files and open them in the browser. We’re going to use Bugout, a JavaScript library that takes care of …
A new weblog has been started by Anna Powell-Smith, called Missing Numbers:
Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn’t.
I expect that whatever she finds in missing data within the UK public sector, similar or matching examples can…
Image: Leonid Pasternak via Wikimedia Commons
Every nonfiction author feels it. That moment when you think “I can’t do this. I am not an author. I am helpless. I can’t move forward.”
That’s crippling self-doubt. It’s so common, it deserves an acronym. CSD.
Do you suffer from CSD?
Please …
This is an edited transcript of a recent talk I gave at a blockchain conference, where I said I’d talk about “What will the world be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous?”
The installation isn’t a one-button procedure. However, an administator comfortable with opening an SSH terminal onto your shared hosting account should be able to follow the steps below. (If you have problems, the federated wiki community hangs out in a room on matrix.org).
Taking responsibility is taking action.
I observed several examples of this over the past week. I attended a homeowner’s association meeting with 50-60 homeowners present. One of the agenda items was about taking care of dog poop in the neighborhood. It came out that the HOA board had decided to spend money to put a poop bag dispenser near the HOA office. However, the “year supply” of bags ran out in 5 months, and the board did not want to spend any more money on bags, so they removed the dispenser. In the meeting, there was not any further action suggested that anyone wanted to take. The real problem (unstated) was that people who have dogs that walk through the neighborhood are not picking up after their dogs (not taking responsibility).
I then thought of several things in my life that I would like to see happen (do more writing, lose weight, get in better shape). However, I have not taken any action. By my statement above, I am not taking responsibility for making those things happen.
I am taking this as an opportunity to take stock of my own responsibilities – a good action for all of us.
