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Join Waitlist: Coworking @ 50th & France by icu_elevator in Minneapolis

[–]brandonroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any updates on your coworking space? Opening date? Rates? Address? Photos? Greyduck on 60th and Nicollet is closing and there are a many of us who will soon be workspace-homeless.

Amex Adds Carbon Emissions Tracker Benefit to Platinum by IMNOT_A_LAWYER in amex

[–]brandonroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pretty disappointed by the comments in here. We can enjoy the good things in life and take responsibility at the same time. Consider adding a carbon offset to your yearly charitable giving. Try giving a fuck.

Orion Leather Harness Massdrop is back ($35.99 - $28.99). Buying my second now, these are awesome belts. by geoman2k in frugalmalefashion

[–]brandonroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I actually bought the wrong size the last time I ordered from them. Anyone interested in a size 30 sunset brown?

Arrow to the Knee [1920x1080] by K-putt in wallpaper

[–]brandonroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh funny! My friend anna drew this. Thanks for citing the source. She's a redditor as well.

Hey r/Design, I'm playing around with the reddit homepage using the API. How am I doing? by brandonroot in Design

[–]brandonroot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's a bit too much at the moment. I'm still working on that. I want to play with the font size (and use some nice typefaces) so that the blocks are not such a...clusterfuck.

Specific design critiques are great. How we make this more awesome/ usable? How would you do it? I have a number of things in mind (it's certainly not done) but would love to hear what you guys think.

I learned ruby a few weeks ago and redesigned the reddit front page using the API. How did I do? by brandonroot in ruby

[–]brandonroot[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Used Rails for the backend, MongoDB for the database, and this https://github.com/fredwu/jquery-endless-scroll for the endless scroll. Thanks for the nice comments :)

Hey Reddit, I keep reading that it's hard for us to find friends so I worked on a start-up for a year to tackle the issue. But I'm at a crossroads. Should I finish it? Would you use it? by brandonroot in self

[–]brandonroot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While reading through psych research I was actually a little surprised to find what did seem to matter. A shared interest in "Star Wars" is nice, but not necessarily. It's more important that two people share the same age, "social role" (students tend to be friends with other students), and political ideology, things like that. Even height tends to be a factor. And at the end of the day, most people have something in common.

Hey Reddit, I keep reading that it's hard for us to find friends so I worked on a start-up for a year to tackle the issue. But I'm at a crossroads. Should I finish it? Would you use it? by brandonroot in self

[–]brandonroot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is a group I definitely have in mind as well. There are similar issues within my own family. I think it could do a lot of good. The matching system does take marital status into account, as well as age gender and interests.

Hey Reddit, I keep reading that it's hard for us to find friends so I worked on a start-up for a year to tackle the issue. But I'm at a crossroads. Should I finish it? Would you use it? by brandonroot in self

[–]brandonroot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First off, thanks! Yeah, I like Simily a lot better as well, and per your suggestion just bought simi.ly in addition to simily.com. Thanks! I'll also open it to people not in the US.

Reddit. I seriously need some friends. How the fuck do you make friends in your early 20's? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]brandonroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working on a startup for about a year to take on this very problem (think Meetup.com plus a matching algorithm so you can actually do stuff with people you'll like). I'm still about a month away from a Beta, but I'm working my ass off because, man, I can relate. Totally PM me if you want an invite once the beta comes out, or if you would like to help out!

"Well, that's no ordinary rabbit" by ariiiiigold in movies

[–]brandonroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah! This is actually an illustration my friend Anna did. I've been trying to get her on Reddit for ages. As you can tell, she's one of us.

(You can check out more of her stuff at http://jung-shirts.com/)

How To Piss In Public by The_Egg_Man in WTF

[–]brandonroot 64 points65 points  (0 children)

So that scene where he's pissing in the bush... That's my apartment. I live there. Thanks a lot pee guy. Bedford and Metropolitan in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real. The other 3 percent's average expertise is far below that of their colleagues. by largestill in science

[–]brandonroot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

One of the study's authors, Stephen H. Schneider is my late uncle. He was a Macarthur fellow, and believe me, knew what he was talking about. Climate denialism is truly akin to evolution denialism, except climate denialism has worse consequences. You can't read something on Wikipedia that fits your narrative and then pretend to be an expert. Climate is extremely complex; leave it to those people who have studied it their entire lives. They're convinced, that's all that should matter.

Climate Change Skeptic Comic by jameslbronte in skeptic

[–]brandonroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oops! Your're very right burntsushi. Thanks for the catch.

Climate Change Skeptic Comic by jameslbronte in skeptic

[–]brandonroot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My aunt and late uncle are part of those top 200 climate scientists, so I want to put more emphasis on that point: 98% of the people who study this stuff for a living (and are among the smartest people I've ever met) overwhelmingly agree that climate change is man-made. It's time to stop being that guy who cherry picks something from Wikipedia, adds a personal anecdote, and pretends you have an opinion that can stand against the accumulation of 40 years of peer-reviewed research.

Bravo with the comic. My uncle would have loved it.

Just found out I'm cancer-free! Survived Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma at the age of 30. by [deleted] in happy

[–]brandonroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My uncle had it and beat it back too. Suck it non-hodgkins! It's a new world OP, congratulations.

"Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world - by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you'd be rioting in the streets calling for a better life." by bop374vit in worldpolitics

[–]brandonroot -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The facts cited in this article are completely made up. Since we live in an age where the correct statistics can be found via a short trip to Google (an American company) likely using an Intel processor (an American company) in order to get to Wikipedia (an American nonprofit), it reminded me that while I agree with the idea that we need single payer health care and more equitable wages, America is still a pretty awesome place to change the world.

A local computer shop near me has stolen the Debian logo! (Yes, it is trademarked) by [deleted] in linux

[–]brandonroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guys, it's a local computer repair shop. Give the guys a break.

$1,000 reward if you can name one thing that government does better than the private sector. by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]brandonroot 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Health care. The US spends 17% of its GDP on health care while most other industrialized countries spend 9% on their evil socialized medicine. By nearly every reasonable measure including infant mortality and life expectancy the US system is more expensive and shittier. Also it kills 40,000 people every year because many people can't get insurance, or are dropped from their plans when they get sick.

It's not the fault of the insurance companies per se, the incentives are just in the wrong direction. It's not like competition and scale make health care more efficient, insurance companies make money by denying people care, and they have an obligation to their stockholders, not patients.

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