Category: Policy issues
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Creating good through open source
I really like videos like this: Open source as a way of doing things has such amazing potential to make our world so much better. Watching videos like this tend to prompt me to revisit my calendar and try find regular blocks of time I can dedicate to my dusty coding projects.
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A perspective on what it’s like to be a Jew in the United Kingdom at the moment
Thank you for the thread. You offer a valuable perspective on what it feels like to be a Jew in the UK. You shouldn’t be victimised for being a Jew, certainly not because of a distorted view of what our government is doing to keep us safe, here in Israel. Also on: Twitter
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Be a better man
Today’s random sampling of the crap men still do to women in 2017 is both a source of despair, and inspiration to be a better man.
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The James Damore memo can’t negate talented women or their work
What I find disturbing about the James Damore memo about men’s and women’s comparative capabilities (aside from the memo itself) is that its publication seems to negate women’s daily achievements in the eyes of so many men who read it.
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When Google gave up, the Internet Archive kept going
The Internet Archive has been quietly preserving our digital heritage for 20 years and it is difficult to understate it’s contribution to Humanity.