I think we take this kind of BS as fairly pedestrian unfortunately. "Oh yeah, they said we needed to file a FOIA request." But think about that. Here is a high profile court case that depended on a rare lab technique that was created de novo for this one request, based on a single 1997 study (the info that this test was done uniquely for this one request was in the Netflix documentary).

Folks have questions about the procedure, and instead of being transparent about what they did, our government essentially says "Fuck you, force us to give it you if you really want it."

At least we have the docs here, so I guess we should be grateful for that?

Citation please? I've heard no serious arguments towards this end. He'll keep trying and eventually he'll succeed. It may take another year of failures. They're being paid full price for these launches, so from a traditional space services perspective, any experiments he wants to do to recover rocket stages at the end of these launches is really up to him. Who are these theoretical detractors? Strawmen for the purposes of writing clickbait?

Ha.. was this a deliberate teacher joke? If so, I applaud! http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/chalkfull.html

I can see a perspective on this-- particularly in large organizations where individuals may primarily toil for the upward accumulation of wealth towards executives and shareholders.

But there is another perspective-- that of the individual scientist, the small entrepreneur, the social worker. Dedicated, passionate individuals performing magic by accomplishing things that others cannot, often unreasonably constrained by time, money and resources.

What about negotiating our rights away in secret, and subordinating sovereign rights to corporate interests? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/heres_why_the_trans-pacific_partnership_agreement_just_plain_wrong_20150107

I hope the irony in pairing these sentences was intended.

Disagree on the 2nd point. Terrorist networks have vastly less impact on our citizens than many many other things, including citizens shot by police.

Somewhere Trump is eating an Oreo

Not to rain on this parade, but how much of this is due to unprecedented amounts of quantitative easing? http://www.startribune.com/unease-with-quantitative-easing-is-going-global/363399171/

And let's not forget Prescott Bush, father of George H. W. Bush, our 41st president. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

As much as I dislike Trump, this "ritual" is essentially just common sense. If I were running for office, I'd do exactly the same thing. Why deprive yourself of this intel? And the video tapes of him succeeding? Could just be a homegrown form of positive reinforcement that he uses to review his interactions and refine his messaging.

Thanks for the coverage David, and I absolutely love the OA search engine you've created with JURN. If you read this, reach out to connect with us, I'd love to chat.

We've got our own list too.

Note that it reads "much of scholarship". Even without the majors (though they're already curious), I think we'll get there. What this really requires is momentum and buy-in from users and a majority of publishers, but not necessarily all of them. The browser extensions already give us a way to reach into content we don't control-- but support from major publishers helps us with content that's more challenging, and helps to signal to readers a default solution.

These are great questions, lets break them down:

Hand annotation-- I think this one is easy. People will annotate what they want to discuss, i.e. people's attention will be spent as they determine it should. Clearly not everything will get an annotation-- but then there are many papers that are never even read. However, the more pervasive, standards-based, powerful and user-centric an annotation capability is, the more it will be used. And by that I don't mean the Hypothes.is service, but rather a client through which you can connect with your annotation service of choice.

Linkrot checking and repair -- This could easily be assisted through automation. I can imagine us crawling annotations periodically (and/or checking them when they're served). Broken links could either be signaled as an issue to the original annotator, or potentially checked against a web archive (e.g. archive.org) and supplanted with a reference there-- or both.

Moderation-- Obviously this is the most important question. If annotation becomes spammy, then users and (particularly) publishers will stop using it. But there are wide variety of strategies we can explore to address this, including community flagging, leveraging groups, using algorithms to identify likely spam and focus resources on it, gating initial permissions by scoring registration email addresses and other such options.

We will shortly support annotation of PDFs against their Adobe ID fingerprint. This will remove the need for a stable URL for PDFs, and will enable use cases like annotating PDFs that you save to disk or receive via email from others.

Otherwise we can also relate two HTML pages to eachother (or to a PDF) if the same content is available elsewhere.

The video I think they're talking about is here, though at the key point the camera points away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX5CPx4RKWw

This: http://www.hoverboard360.com/

Not to be confused with this: https://hoverboard.com/

Is the money Taboola offers really worth the degree to which it debases the content it's embedded on? (Don't answer that!)

Or perhaps, "contribute annotations"?!

But a bunch of annotations ^

We also support embedding the javascript application on a page, so that it's there by default. https://hypothes.is/for-publishers/

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What? No one should ever try to redesign others' work because they might have less than complete information about the decisions that went into it? "cough" Bullshit!

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Here's LaTeX math support in the pull quote.

$$\(a^2+b^2 =(p^2-q^2)^2+(2pq)^2 =p^4-2p^2q^2+q^4+4p^2q^2 =p^4+2p^2q^2+q^4 =(p^2+q^2)^2 =c^2\)$$

$$1/(1-x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty x^n$$

$$\begin{matrix} -2 & 1 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & 0 \\ 1 & -2 & 1 & 0 & \cdots & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & -2 & 1 & \cdots & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & -2 & \ddots & \vdots \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \ddots & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & 1 & -2 \end{matrix}$$

Saying relevant.

How exactly does one reflect ... strategically?

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Write something here that I feel passionately about.

مل المسار الانتخابي مستقبلا، واستخلص بأن هيئة تختصر صلاحياتها في المراقبة الحصرية للانتخابات كما ورد في الرسالة الرئاسية الأخيرة، لا تعبر سوى عن إرادة الإطالة في عمر التزوير المتفشي في المنظومة السياسية الوطنية بأشكال ووسائل أخرى.

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Hello, I really don't think so.

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If the battlefront on climate change turns to whether extraction industries have misled investors, that will be an extraordinary turn of events indeed.

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It would have really been a service to readers here if you could have explored this a bit. What exactly are the limitations of flat discussions Jeff?

I'll take the liberty of offering my list:

Flat discussions:

1. Don't scale well to many participants. After a very short while the conversation maxes out, and people are talking over each other.
2. Don't work well on popular posts. This is a variation of the first point, with the emphasis on participants in a compressed period of time.
3. Force hacks like the use of @mentions at the beginning of lines to target remarks to a specific person.
4. Get noisy quickly.
5. Dumb down conversations to the few ideas and few voices that are sustainable before things get too congested.

Actually only in older usenet style systems. In forums like Reddit, you don't have to click through anywhere, and the 'collapsor' at the root of any branch lets you quickly "read-by-collapsing' as you quickly decide that each branch doesn't deal with a subject you're interested in.

In other words, having the conversation you want to have is "getting off topic". Says who? Who decides which conversation is "on topic"? The tyranny of the single loud room, in which only simple conversations can be had by a few folks?

Not to belabor the point, but the whole point of threading is to allow people to "start a new topic" if they want to "get off topic", but without disturbing those who prefer to continue discussing the thing they were.

Often so are normal discussions. Does that mean we shouldn't have them? Conversations are complex things.

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Something that I'd like to say.

I think stickiness should be for top-level source annotations, not replies.  The reply should default to the parent, particularly for groups.

How did you do that?

Agree with this. Wider is better.

VERY soon.

I actually don't see it that way. When I ask if "that makes sense", I can just as often if not more likely be asking whether I make sense-- appealing to them as the sensible judge, and implying that perhaps I am the one that is "non-sense".

Someone who is perhaps overly self-critical might see it the other way around of course, but I don't think the question as stated carries a negative connotation.

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Wait, not a whisper in this entire article about what utter crap the F-35 apparently is, completely unsuited for many of the fundamental tasks it was designed? The cynic in me is amused that the Chinese may have replicated a turd, the counterpoint of course is that they may have been following the news and fixed the flaws themselves.

The first Beyond the PDF workshop was a grass roots affair, held at UCSD in 2011. An except from the page states:

The goal of the workshop was not to produce a white paper! Rather it was to identify a set of requirements, and a group of willing participants to develop a mandate, open source code and a set of deliverables to be used by scholars to accelerate data and knowledge sharing and discovery . Our starting point, and the only prerequisite to participating, was the belief that we need to move Beyond the PDF (meant to capture a common philosophy, not necessarily to be taken literally). In a heady moment we might also describe our efforts as the desire to contribute to the development of a free and open digital printing press for the 21st century.

Haven't you just contradicted the false dilemma you posed in the first paragraph? I was just about to leave a note there venting a little frustration, but here you've knocked that straw man down. Perhaps recraft the opener instead?

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Richard Stallman is famous for the speaking rider he sends out when he is considering an engagement. The relevant portion:

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too.

DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

(Yes, I know that's a cockatiel)

I'll give a separate answer, which is that I think there are probably many different models, and hopefully what emerges over time is a spectrum that varies according to context, classroom, strategy, etc.

I do want to call attention as Jeremy did to the groups feature which is launching in just weeks. That will resolve the overall "public" question, allowing you to easily scope it to the classroom. Further breaking it down to 1:1 interaction, easily is something we've heard before. You of course could do that with 25 groups that you manage, one for each student-- but clearly that's cumbersome. Others have said they want a group mode where contributors can only annotate in a way that the administrator (teacher) can see-- possibly until a config has changed and the group is opened to classwide visibility.

Mostly we want to know exactly what students would like in order to make annotating more fun, more effective and more rewarding overall for them.

Thanks so much for taking the time to experiment with us. We look forward to more.

There's a copy of Rob's presentation here.

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Perhaps the reason they have a high turnover rate is because only a very few members make anything approaching a sustainable living. Bill Ackman compares Herbalife to another similar company, Vemma, recently sued for fraudulent marketing practices.

Bill's presentation is here.

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This concept was proposed by Robert Heinlein in the 1940 science fiction short story The Roads Must Roll.

Good advice.

This is just crazy wrong to me. What, we aren't supposed to touch other people's work, think about other organization's problems (even though clearly we have limited information about their challenges)? Aren't we frequently asked to give an "outsider's perspective", aren't external consultants unburdened by internal politics sought for their fresh perspectives?

Why stifle this by calling it folly?

I'd add that if applicants send in their own designs without providing the context that helps show their thinking and informs the employer of why they approached a design in the way they did then most certainly I agree. It's the thinking after all that's most valuable. The last mile of "dribbble"-perfect pixels can be a wonderful but finishing veneer that must lie over a solid foundation. But an applicants failure to do that is decidedly unlike what happens when someone attempts to redesign someone else's work or problem space.

In fact, one of my all time favorite redesigns is Tyler Thompson's redesign of Delta Airline's boarding pass. What makes it so great, aside from the range of designs produced (and the alternatives sent in by a wide range of others ) is the thought process he leads us through. Clearly the "redesign of others work" in and of itself is not folly.

Which mothers? Expectant ones? Ones with Downs babies (wouldn't have a need for the test probably, unless it's for the next pregnancy). Or statistically are there fewer Downs babies born in Spain for other reasons?

Oh, and what exactly is "common among abortion-enabling biotechnology companies"?

Citation please.

What you're saying then is that "most humans" have an opinion outside the mainstream of either party. Should this be surprising to us?

I'd love to see data on this though. Otherwise it's kind of just conjecture.

Collection number should read 1269 according to Plantae Hartwegianae.

This notion is exactly what was behind the Sloan grant we and arXiv received. Also, we held a workshop on the potential for annotation as a model for peer review.

It's also available as javascript that can be embedded by site owners, wordpress users, etc. In addition, we have a proxy called "via" that can inject it onto any page on the fly. We have a page that describes the options for publishers.

We agree. This is near the top of our queue right now.

The phenomenon you allude to here is something that I've wondered about. People may want to evolve their thinking in a more restricted circle and, once it's refined-- or they're more confident it won't get ridiculed-- circulate it more widely. It will be interesting to see if this is how it's used.

This is literally the thing we are working on right now and will ship next!

As an english major myself, I often wondered just how many 10s of thousands of years into the future college freshman would be digging through Macbeth and To Kill a Mockingbird for the smallest new angle. But yeah, I'm sure by the time you're in graduate school the stakes are though the roof.

@timmmmyboy created the original Hypothes.is WordPress extension. Thanks Tim!

I think the most interesting part about the Daily Telegraph story is that they actually made a correction as a result.

UPDATE (07/08/15):

Here is the list of statements that have been removed (or modified) from the original version of The Telegraph article:

“River Thames could freeze over in 2030s when Northern Hemisphere faces bitterly cold winters, scientists say” [original subtitle of the article] “The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.“ “[…] in such a way that temperatures will fall dramatically in the 2030s.“ “In a presentation to the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, she said the result would be similar to freezing conditions of the late 17th century.“ “This had helped create a picture of what would happen in the 2030s.“

http://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-dan-hyde-earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-within-15-years/#update

God, this can't come soon enough. Thank you.

Obviously the prediction was a bit off, but the success of primarily video oriented education approaches, like Khan academy 100 years later, does suggest that he was on to something. (Biased though he obviously was!) There is something immediate, visceral and compelling about video as a medium for education.

We're just about to release private group annotation, specifically to address this commonly requested feature!

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Since we all know that smashing your phone is an effective countermeasure when someone publicizes your personal (and portable) mobile number.

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Here's what a sample annotation might look like.

I'll note that the photo is one of construction, not crumbling. :)

Skeptical lawmakers were further irked Monday after the United Nations Security Council unanimously endorsed the deal before Congress had vetted it, which some members viewed as a slight to the legislative branch.

No way no how. It's completely impossible for a video to appear (poorly) edited, complete with gaps and repeats, because it was "affected in the upload". To point out the obvious: 1) Modern error correction, and 2) even absent error correction, any upload error would result in a spectrum of possible outcomes none of which would in anyway remotely resemble the editing of a video in this way.

It quite likely could present a challenge to serendipity if we don't consciously create ways to encourage the sharing of the personal.

From Wikipedia:

Scholars of international relations have identified the modern, Western-originated, international system of states, multinational corporations, and organizations, as having begun at the Peace of Westphalia

Isn't the issue more how the ruthless business practices of Monsanto lead them to abuse the leverage that GMOs give them in controlling much of the world's food supply? If you want to have a conversion on the nutritional merits of GMOs, why go to Monsanto to do so?

This last tension of course is one that should be eliminated.

I assume there's a component of distance from the asteroid belt that factors into the age calculus. In other words, Pluto might look "young" as measured by impacts but one presumes that the opportunity for such impacts over time drops dramatically as one moves to the outer boundaries of the solar system.

How quickly we move from praising to criticizing innovation. How rapidly should we expect full accessibility for what's produced in all contexts?

This is an example.

So it's not just the tweeting of the photo-- it's the construction of the photo in the first place from sources. Another intern?

Surprise.

There's a doubt that this account isn't accurate? That Chapo and his environment wouldn't have been under intense scrutiny after these remarks-- potentially even resulting in his relocation-- seems extraordinary.

I'd say the evidence tilts in the direction these are probably authentic.

Now of course, all of these have foreign subsidiaries which could fully engage.

Again, all these make perfect sense viewed through the lens of business interests.

Easy to say for candidates now, much more difficult if the administration were actually to try to re-establish the sanctions / policy post-election.

The wild card here of course is Israel, and how they factor into all this.

Easy to say for candidates now, much more difficult if the administration were actually to try to re-establish the sanctions / policy post-election.

The wild card here of course is Israel, and how they factor into all this.

Well, because they can still maintain their principled stand while the major corps don't care anymore. Politically perfect compromise?

No, only for "US companies that are not multinationals". I'd be curious to see a list of the companies that might want to engage here that fit this filter.

Pardon me for my cynicism, but to (state the obvious) what this means is that the big players just sidestep around this stuff while the smaller players are blocked by it. Just another data point on how the system continually tips towards the largest multinationals.

Suddenly things all become so much clearer, don't they?

Subtle. Maybe just sneak in and steal the artichokes back later?

Let's be a little more clear here. I think the implication is that the PIN codes and their associated mappings to containers, once stolen via USB-drives can also be intercepted wirelessly (i.e. in real time when containers arrive)? And this of course implies that the codes are transmitted in the clear.

And the port wasn't unaware of this problem, even the potential of abuse, from the very get go?

That this is even possible is astonishing. The only security is whether you can type a pin into a keypad?

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What's great is that the actual numbers are so much better than this. I'm clocking this at 5 seconds, not 26.

Hmm.. first question: Why is he traveling to Brussels? He should invite them to Greece to negotiate there.

You're always weaker traveling to the venue of your counterparty. He's probably done that enough by now. Time to switch turf.

Why? I don't understand the US's position in all this.

Source please? Is this well understood at this point, or something newly revealed here?

I'm skeptical that Alexis wouldn't understand the sense of the people better than this.

We already know for instance that "Oxi" or "no" is a word so deeply embedded in the Greek psyche that "Oxi day" is a national holiday celebrated October 28 in commemoration of the rejection of another European ultimatum, this one from Mussolini of demands to enter and occupy greece in 1940.

Source please. Is the implication that non-profits continue to suck on the foundation teat, even if they're completely failing to accomplish any objectives? In my experience, that may be possible for a while, but not in perpetuity. And non-profits may not pivot, but if they fail they'll most certainly shut down, which leaves their founders and team available to contribute in positive ways to society elsewhere. "Pivoting" if you prefer.

At Hypothes.is we agree! We just think there's a role for non-profits to participate too. That doesn't mean we won't pursue investment in the future, it just means we care a ton about our alignment with those we're serving.

Wait, this looks awfully like a non-profit grant to individuals that are doing important work, not a seed-round to a startup company.

Indeed. It also cares little if nothing for the users of the technology--except insofar as they drive the monetization and exit valuation of the organization. So long as those are aligned, great.

This begs the question, "What is the end goal?" Clearly most folks don't scale their non-profit to make more money, because most don't start non-profits to make money in the first place. And, why wouldn't the impact of non-profits accrue with scale? Wikimedia has more than tripled in size in the last ten years, but they're also the seventh largest site on the Web and a critical resource for humanity. I'd say they're hitting the ball out of the park, and their 250 employees and $50M annual budget are responsible for a large part of that.

If your reward is impact, and impact increases with scale, then isn't the reward greater with scale?

Really? But you could say the same about a for-profit too. Triple in size, get triple the problems. Headaches come with people, and they are a natural result of larger orgs. My first company had 550 people when we sold it to Sabre in 2000, we had all kinds of headaches that we never had when we were only 3 people in the back of a travel agency.

This feels like hyperbole. I would assume that Gates probably funded a wide range of non-profits, from startups to established institutions. The implication here is that these 400 orgs were startups that had a choice between a non-profit model and a for-profit one, and chose the former to their detriment.

Obviously this statement is being made in the context of his leaving Gates and starting his own company and venture fund.

Is it really? Explain. If people don't understand the nuances of your identity in the way you do, then isn't that deception?

And bless you for that.

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Yes, I really want to know more about this.

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I would gladly pay $1 a month, or even $10 a month, for a service that actually served me, was based on open source technologies and open protocols, and that allowed me and others to innovate on top of it in ways that were constructive to the community.

But then, that wouldn't be facebook would it? Diaspora tried a model like that a while back. I still wish they could have succeeded.

A related, secondary problem is that venture-backed businesses create tensions where monetization either immediately from subscription or advertising, or eventually via "exits" (very few actually IPO and become self-sustaining long-term) must happen in order for investors to recoup their original capitalization. The premise that the business launches on, when the service is usually free and the need to identify recurring revenues is in the distant future, becomes slowly perverted, distorted, and compromised until it's sold or shut down. There are few examples of scaled social networks that have avoided either. Twitter and facebook are the two primary examples, but there the constant pressure to generate more and more revenue pushes the in directions which threaten the original value proposition. Google+ seems to be on a path to shut-down.

While this is certainly cool tech, it would be much better if google’s camera app let me tag (yes, annotate!) and organize my photos with my own meaning at the point of capture, or shortly thereafter. Trying to infer the content of photos and how they’re important to me later is a kludge. Probably still useful I suppose, but lets do some simple things first.

Clearly the chitosan gum industry was behind this thing to begin with. Science prevails.

ამჟამად ჯავახიშვილს ორი მოადგილე ჰყავს თენგიზ შერგელაშვილი და ეკა სეფაშვილი. სამინისტროში ვაკანტურია პირველი მოადგილის თანამდებობა და საავტომობილო გზების დეპარტამენტის თავმჯდომარის პოსტი.

防灾减灾救灾、社会治安防控等方面体制机制改革任务，党的十八届四中全会提出了加强公共安全立法、推进公共安全法治化的要求。党和国家把维护公共安全摆在更加突出的位置，作出了一系列部署。各地区各部门按照这些决策部署和工作要求，做了大量工作，取得了积极成效。

Напомним, Париж отказался передать России заказанные ранее "Рособоронэкспортом" два вертолетоносца типа "Мистраль" по причине политических разногласий, возникших между странами из-за ситуации на Украине и присоединения Крыма к России. Сумма контракта составляет 1,2 миллиарда евро. При этом, по условиям договора, в том случае, если Франция не передаст суда российскому заказчику, ей придется выплатить неустойку в размере 10 млрд евро. Хотя во время последних переговоров, французкие представители предложили России "забыть" о "Мистралях" за сумму в 785 млн евро.

এই প্রতিবেদনে বলা হয়েছে, ‘এনক্রিপশন এবং নিজের পরিচয় প্রকাশ না করার ব্যবস্থা, এককভাবে কিংবা একত্রে ব্যক্তির মতামত এবং বিশ্বাসের সুরক্ষায় একটি ব্যক্তিগত গোপনীয় ক্ষেত্র তৈরি করে থাকে।’ এই ধরনের টুলস ব্যক্তির মতামত প্রকাশের জন্য আশীর্বাদস্বরূপ জানিয়ে প্রতিবেদনে সতর্ক করা হয়েছে, এনক্রিপশন সফটওয়্যারকে কোনোভাবে দুর্বল করার অর্থ হলো এর সক্ষমতাকে কমিয়ে ফেলা। এমন সুযোগ তৈরি হলে ব্যক্তি তার প্রয়োজনে কোনো পরিচিতিমূলক তথ্য গোপন রাখতে ব্যর্থ হবে বলা হয়েছে এই প্রতিবেদনে।

This is the kind of either-or thinking that plagues the geoengineering debate.

We must lower emissions, as aggressively as possible. But we must also aggressively explore--at the very least research-- any other pathways which could mitigate some of the worst of what's coming our way. To wait until things are much worse than they already are is the pinnacle of foolishness.

Just how long do you expect it would take to properly research the technologies, models and conduct field trials for an aerosol intervention? If we need 10-20 years to do so, should we wait until we're really screwed (which we may already be), or get started now?

This is incredibly poor thinking.

You're assuming that the risk of doing nothing and suffering 4-6 degrees of warming is somehow equivalent to the risk of taking some action to mitigate the worst (but not all) effects of that warming. Clearly there are significant unknowns to the aerosol approach to solar geoengineering, which is why we should strive to learn more about it, not dismiss it out of hand.

You talk about 4-6 degrees of warming like its somehow a linear progression from the 1+ degree we're experiencing now. However, that's hardly the case. 4-6 degrees will fundamentally restructure agriculture, fresh water distribution, habitable population areas, and innumerable other things. Modern civilization depends on an extraordinarily complex interrelationship of economic flows, supply chains, and necessities that have finite elasticity and resilience. Already in California, where a huge fraction of America's fresh produce comes from, we're experiencing record droughts, and are looking at major impacts to agriculture. What will 4-6 degrees add to that? Would you like to sit around and wait to find out?

What you're suggesting here is that we roll our dice and take the worst of what's coming without considering any mitigating action-- simply because of the chance that we might not be able to continue to pursue that mitigation. That's the same as saying "I won't go on dialysis, because it's possible I might not be able to continue." But you go on dialysis because you don't have any other options-- and you take your chances from there.

I'd also say there's a real danger that our proxy might be limited by websites that see our proxy traffic and throttle us-- possibly because we've violated a threshold of free use.

I think you try to lay this balkanization at the feet of recent cross-site scripting restrictions that affect bookmarklets. I don't think that's fair. I think people have wanted more complex apps, they've needed true extensions for those, and because browser extension environments are different, there's been the inevitable fragmentation. But this balkanization is not specifically due to recent changes only potentially exacerbated by them.

This central thesis seems slightly overstated to me. For instance, we created an extension before we even felt the pain of the bookmarklet restrictions-- because we wanted something that didn't need to be specifically activated on each page, but that was always there, as a button on the browser-- and that would stay on when turned on, event after you browsed to a new page. Particularly important for future features that are aware all the time. Also the experience of clicking to install, and having it there permanently is perhaps favorable overall.

Maybe a softer message that highlights that bookmarklets were favorable option in many situations, but they're less effective now and that's a shame.

A casual glance says selection and annotation of arabic appears to work. I also tested with a potential partner, Johnny West at OpenOil, last year, and he (a fluent arabic speaker) confirmed that our selection seemed to work on Arabic.

(caveat: I could be completely wrong!)

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering: How on earth can this happen? I doubt Amtrak tracks in the NE corridor are rated for 100mph anywhere, so how is it possible that the throttle even goes that fast? And-- clearly a system which limits speed according to local conditions, like curves, isn't beyond our technological capability.

HathiTrust & OCRC / EBSCO, Proquest

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I'd add MIT Media Lab in here somewhere.

Hewlett, MacArthur, Ford, Mott, Wallace, Arnold, Walton are others. Here's a handy link. By the way, the way I found that link, was to google "Education Foundations Hewlett MacArthur Gates", i.e. naming three that I knew, and letting google route me to other adjacent ones. One of my favorite techniques.

Rice University Connexions / OpenStax

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Why on earth does Monckton's voice continued to get amplified, even via a caveated mention like this? There are plenty of folks with no credibility and similar things to say. Why quote them?

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Also available as an embed that can be included natively on pages, as well as via a proxy service. (like to this page)

This felt slightly awkward the first time I read it.

sync in real time

maybe "a local copy of a PDF collaboratively with someone annotating another local copy, or the same PDF hosted on the web"....

That's a little clumsy... but the key is to capture local:local as well as local:web

Add a bit more space above here to separate these things.

I think this is an interesting option for the annotator generally, but perhaps not for something that implies a group.

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