We have put the least imaginative people alive in charge of the world.

if you wrong your employer, for example by failing to do your job well, you are not a criminal to be prosecuted by the state. you may well deserve to lose that job though.

here, wronging your employer is considered a criminal act.

It'd be nice if the regulations would make designing clean sheet airframes a viable business again.

Before picking up more software work ~6mo later, I got certified as an EMT and started volunteering on the ambulance at a local service. It has been a really great choice. I work with excellent people in a job very different from my remote software one. I wouldn't call it manual labor by any stretch, but it has a very different physicality and interpersonal nature than engineering that makes it very rewarding for me.

There's no reason on paper to spend whole days volunteering doing something you're not the best at. Doesn't matter.

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OpenArchive helps human rights defenders to document and archive abuses. Our app, Save, empowers those capturing important mobile media to archive it securely. We plan to incorporate decentralized storage technologies into our portfolio of supported backends in the next year.

We want your help in deciding exactly which decentralized storage solution (e.g. IPFS, Filecoin, bittorrent...) we adopt and how to do it best.

This is a hard problem requiring the technical expertise to assess existing and emerging technologies beyond the "marketing hype" and to square what these offer with the needs of real people in unforgiving situations. Much of what you'll learn and document is interesting to a broad audience and we expect you to engage with the community at large via conferences, blogs, or articles.

Ideal candidates are great communicators who can share examples of their past research (posts, articles, etc.). We prefer folks with a related graduate degree and are open to hiring postdocs or funding academic research.

OpenArchive helps human rights defenders to document and archive abuses. Our app, Save, empowers those capturing important mobile media to archive it securely. We plan to incorporate decentralized storage technologies into our portfolio of supported backends in the next year.

We want your help in deciding exactly which decentralized storage solution (e.g. IPFS, Filecoin, bittorrent...) we adopt and how to do it best.

This is a hard problem requiring the technical expertise to assess existing and emerging technologies beyond the "marketing hype" and to square what these offer with the needs of real people in unforgiving situations. Much of what you'll learn and document is interesting to a broad audience and we expect you to engage with the community at large via conferences, blogs, or articles.

Ideal candidates are great communicators who can share examples of their past research (posts, articles, etc.). We prefer folks with a related graduate degree and are open to hiring postdocs or funding academic research.

Full posting: https://open-archive.org/RJob

Hi, I'm John and I'm the tech lead for Save (https://open-archive.org/save/). Save is an iOS and Android app that helps citizen reporters and eyewitnesses around the world preserve, protect, authenticate, and amplify what they’ve documented.

Us: * Open Source * Flexible on location/time-zone. Our tech team is already globally distributed (US, Germany, India). * Working on privacy and human rights tech with like-minded folks around the world * Focusing on bug squashing in our existing apps today, and on integrating really fun & interesting distributed storage tech in the coming months/years.

You (we hope!): * Strong communication skills * Serious experience (mid/senior level) on at least one of Android/iOS with strong references * Ideal * Experience in setting up automated testing/CI/CD in at least one of the two platforms * Ability to contribute to both platforms * Able to start immediately and dedicate 20+hrs/wk through June. * Experience with distributed web tech e.g. IPFS

Please reach out at email-in-profile with a resume, rate, and any reasons this might be an especially good fit :-)

The most effective, efficient data exploration tool I've ever used. I'm a data scientist, but I use this before I write so much as a line of code.

One of Hipmunk's founders spoke to a course that I was in about their experience as a founder and how they were running their business. A few weeks later, a well known founder of another travel search company visited the class and said outright that if Hipmunk did have any success, that they would copy those features and that Hipmunk couldn't threaten their position. That is exactly what happened.

To boot, Hipmunk was acquired and shuttered by another travel conglomerate.

I wonder what "Things I wont work with" would be for tech. I can imagine particular technologies (e.g. predictive policing) or types of data (e.g. I refuse to put digitized therapist's notes on the internet).

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