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Re:Doge 4 Water on Sunday March 16, 2014 @05:57PM (#7411558)
here is information about the donation address: http://dogechain.info/address/DNfFHTUZ4kkXPnoYUvgt6BGVwonEFB...
Re:The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @01:16AM (#5593414)
i guess you haven't heard of https://bitpay.com/.
Re:Things That Are Never Admitted About Open Source on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:52AM (#5108445)
linux desktop is dead? linux desktop is awesome! http://awesome.naquadah.org
Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012 on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:49AM (#4968817)
i highly recommend all of these: - "Cathedral and the Bazaar" - "Buddhism Without Beliefs" - "Mindfulness in Plain English" - "Godel Escher Bach" - "People's History of the United States" - "Debian Administrator's Handbook"
me thinks that is taking both the internet and open source for granted.
Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:38PM (#3742403)
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion. Do you suppose the accounting could also be automated, with help from an accountant, as part of the system that facilitates exchanges? My current thinking is to create a system that can be used by anyone, not just those within a single collective.
Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:56PM (#3742228)
Let's rephrase the question: how do we solve taxes?
Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:48PM (#3742199)
For those interested in sustaining themselves by making open / libre software, I plan on dedicating my next summer to starting a cooperative for hackers. The basic idea is that if we can create a decentralized ecosystem for exchanging currency, ideas, and goods in an open and cooperative manner, we can solve our needs as hackers without resorting to non-free alternatives. You can find my early planning here: https://github.com/SirDinosaur/hackercoop, and I'd greatly appreciate any questions, comments, critiques on how to make my / our dream possible.