Paul Lindner

I may or may not have overused the Pareto distribution.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/scant-evidence-of-power-laws-found-in-real-world-networks-20180215/

Also: Quanta is good.

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googlegroups.com == dogfood history

I counted 44 dogfood google groups (!) including these classics:

butterandcream-prod (wha?)
friendsofallen
openbonfire
snickersmocha

Enjoy it while you can, GDPR will probably force the cleanup of all these...

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I wouldn't be here today without the excellent Carnegie funded library in Alexandria, MN. And yes, I realize that today you have access to all this knowledge. What you do not have is an outpost in each community, supported by people within the community.

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

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This is a must-read deck. Very happy to see these concepts being taken seriously.

I also find Pomodoro very useful to help focus.

One thing they missed was ADHD and meds used to treat it.

go/jomo-research

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Googlers, don't be smug, doesn't look like Google Express supports Food Stamps either..

[And at least Amazon offers discounted Prime membership to people with EBT cards.]

That said if you don't have the learned experience of being poor you might want to check out today's talk "Growing Up Poor In America" - Lisa 'Tiny' Garcia at 11am PT

Livestream at http://go/tiny-kim

[original image sourced from https://imgur.com/MUuZ9sr]

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So one more Nexus 6p / Android post.

A teammate offered me a 6p test device as a loaner. Has the asset tag and everything. *Yay!*

Turns out it was factory reset with a test account on it. *Uhoh!*

But no worries there's an internal unlock tool. (http://go/androidunlock) *Yay*

Ugh it's broken for some odd reason:

https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/68021469

Techstop basically gives up at this point and say try out http://go/skylab -- basically saying that the device is a paperweight.

If we can't manage a shared pool of devices I fear what hell our enterprise customers go through. Also imagine if a fired employee Factory Resets their phone before they leave. Instant brick...

Anyway, enough ranting for today. I need to save my energy to deal with my wife's repeated question: "let's just go buy iPhones -- Are you some kind of masochist or what?"...

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Google Store, please take my money :(

- FWIW this is the chrome bug where time goes backwards
- And to add insult to injury I now have 4 pending charges for the failed orders.... At least having my card declined let me know that this was the case
- Filed http://b/72589737

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Wow, so this is what the Google Store offers for a clean/working Nexus 6p trade-in...

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*And you may ask yourself, well*
*How did I get here?*

_The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project (SIDLP) - is to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, proving uniform access to the large number of emerging networked information sources and collections. These include both on-line versions of pre-existing works and new works and media of all kinds that will be available on the globally interlinked computer networks of the future. The Integrated Digital Library is broadly defined to include everything from personal information collections, to the collections that one finds today in conventional libraries, to the large data collections shared by scientists. The technology developed in this project will provide the "glue" that will make this worldwide collection usable as a unified entity, in a scalable and economically viable fashion._

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9411306

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Do you want a better internet?  One that balances the needs of creators and consumers?  A more democratic internet?  I do.  That's why I'm investing in a music coop: Resonate.

Stream to Own

I've been a member-owner of Resonate for a while, and listen every day.  It provides an eclectic mix similar to a high quality college radio station.  At first glance Resonate is a streaming service like Soundcloud or Spotify.  But dig deeper and the you'll find major differences:

• You only pay for what you listen to.
• Each listen debits your balance a small amount.
• On the 9th listen you own the track. 

This tiered pricing model incentivizes discovery.  Owning actual tracks helps fans develop deeper ties to the music they love.

And I own more than just tracks.  My member share means that I own a portion of Resonate, I can vote on how the business is operated and at the end of the year I can share in the profits.

Over the past year Resonate has added more content, more features, and most importably a sustainable organization where fans, musicians, employees and labels can work together towards common goals.   This is the kind of “cooperative internet” that I always imagined would emerge back in the pre-web era.

“Purpose above Profits”

"Purpose above Profits" was the slogan at REI as I shopped for the holidays.  It’s a reminder that the REI is a Member Cooperative.  With my $20 lifetime membership I get dividends based on my purchases while supporting outdoor and environmental causes.  In 2016 REI gave back 70% of profits.

This is but one example of how Coops can offer sustainable services for the communities they serve.  Growing up I had electric power from an Coop.  When I lived in Switzerland there’s a huge retail chain literally named “Coop”.  I currently use and support my Credit Union.

Overall Coop businesses are more sustainable, and are oriented to the long term interests of their member-owners.

But the growth of the Internet and the Web bypassed the cooperative model.  This despite the fact that open source and much of the shared internet infrastructure are structured like coops.  It wasn't until 2014 that the concept of Platform Cooperative was coined.   The rise of pseudo-"sharing" platforms like Uber and AirBnB and the rise of decentralized technologies like blockchains were two key reasons that many now embrace the concept.

Early Stage Capital

But a problem emerges, how do you bootstrap a Cooperative where there are significant barriers to entry?  That’s where Supporter Shares come in.  Anyone can invest in these shares.  Each year the co-op sets aside 10% of profits and issues dividends to Supporter Share owners.

But remember that Supporter Shares don't get you extra voting power.  A cooperative is still one-person, one-vote.  The upside is that there are no leveraged buyouts, no dual share structures or non-voting shares.

The Future Internet

The Internet I want is a democratic one where creators, consumers, supporters and employees can work together towards common, sustainable goals.  By using and investing in Resonate I hope to advance those goals.  Liz Pelly captured the sentiment in "Protest Platforms" that "Resonate is particularly interesting for the way it advocates for broad decentralization of data, power, and money in music".

The Resonate Project Map details where the project is going and the plan to achieve it.  I’ll admit that the content catalog is small, (but growing!) and the technology is very beta (but improving!).  I still use and enjoy it every day.

I hope that you'll consider joining the coop as a member owner and see for yourself.  If you want to accelerate this type of work consider purchasing Supporter Shares.

And finally, I hope that you'll consider supporting a new generation of online platforms that include the same kind of values that Resonate promotes.  All while listening to and supporting the artists we love.

So what phone should I buy now that Nexus Support has basically told me to pound sand and I'm off the Nexus/Pixel train? Had every phone since the G1.

I think of the amount of money spent on wall-to-wall Pixel TV ads and wonder how a small amount of that would have helped placate our most loyal customers...

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Nexus 6p Bootloop :(

And we're not making it right for users and sending people to Huawei, who are now closed. And all my spare phones are micro-sim.

The playbook for the people on the phone is a depressing read:

https://support.google.com/playops/hardware/answer/7519413

We have a huge hoard of cash, surely we could do right by our users?

Oh and this is my 4th 6p...

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Received a travel pillow as a gift. "for when you're tired on the shuttle"

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If you want some more depth to the Californian Ideology critique consider watching the Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

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

Hypernormalisation also covers some of the same ideas and is more recent.

https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation

Well worth watching. The blog->book is an interesting thing I didn't know about and I found the email -> blog solution for communicating with her future grown-up children clever.

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14fAzIdLrfKt6K313UraEJATFsjFsqTEumNun4ufhtiU/edit?usp=sharing

https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/10/brianna-privett-the-story-of-your-life-using-wordpress-as-your-memor...

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Nicky did a great talk at Long Now called Seeing Whole Systems. Would anyone be interested in screening it here?

http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/

But for now revel in visualizing the prisoner's dilemma. Also check out loopy http://ncase.me/loopy/

http://ncase.me/trust/

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Reminder that SoCal wildfire donations are being matched.

https://g-give.googleplex.com/campaign/2017-Southern-California-Fires

There's a tile memorial at Rockridge Bart for the Oakland Firestorm. Gets me every time.

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No one has mentioned https://liberapay.com/ ?

They seem to deal with this problem by letting you fund a donation account and then disburse funds on a periodic basis. This is also similar to donor advised funds so I'm not sure why Patreon is doing this when other alternatives are available.

Added to reading list..

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1089.pdf

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Looks like G+ sharing was added to gThanks in

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/9972517

But the shares it creates now are pretty bare-bones and you have to really hunt down that G+ share button...

Oh and big congrats to all the people getting Kudos and PBs lately. Y'all are awesome!

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Inside an AT&T pedestal cabinet in Oakland...

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my new buganizering tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF4u7TG7LfQ

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