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Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by John

John — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:03:29 +0000

I think it would need to be something separated from money, which would put it in direct conflict with what appears to be Flattr’s main base right now.

An entirely meaningless ‘kudos’/points system could maybe work, but I don’t think it would really take off. The beer exchange has novelty value, plus obviously has beer.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by Siim Teller

Siim Teller — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:09:31 +0000

Good points, sure it’s not everything for all things.

Wondering if there’s a way to make it relevant in such knowledge/karma exchange?

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by John

John — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000

Well, part of the ‘beer debt’ thing is the implied social aspect – even if you walk the graph of beer debt and find someone local, it still has that social aspect since you’ll need to meet them for the beers.

Flattr’s still a bit too new and unusual to step in there, I think, plus there’s an aspect of almost assigning a cash value to the help which is always going to be far less than the actual commercial value of any help you get. A beer is a repayment among friends, but a micropayment is a bit… off?

Don’t get me wrong about Flattr in general – I think there’s definite uses for it, it would just be a bit weird here.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by Siim Teller

Siim Teller — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:53:42 +0000

How about Flattr for that sort of karma debt? Possible to flattr any Twitter account, even if they’re not signed up just yet.

Comment on Hugs are not transitive. by epocalypse

epocalypse — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:17:08 +0000

Yeah, I’m not really a touchy feel kind of person, except with my wife & kids. Sometimes though there are moments in my work where a quick hug may make a difference and I feel very uncomfortable with that, difficult to determine the appropriateness of physical intimacy in such charged situations.

Comment on Promoting Personal Productivity Plan by Semantici.st - Projects

Semantici.st - Projects — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:17:18 +0000

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Comment on One Line Ruby Webserver by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:07:29 +0000

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Comment on Fat Fucking Fail by John

John — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:41:00 +0000

Yeah, it doesn’t have any actual wheels – the pedals just go into a black box where magic (doesn’t) happen.

I’m probably going to crack it open this weekend and see if I can get it working again, failing that replacing it will have to wait – we’re going on holiday this month (my first actual proper holiday in well over a decade), so money’s a bit tight.

Plus it’s difficult to justify spending nearly an entire iPad’s worth of money on an exercise bike.

Comment on Fat Fucking Fail by Anna Lear

Anna Lear — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:33:49 +0000

What about picking up a normal bike trip meter? Calibrating it might be tricky, though, if your stationary bike doesn’t have actual wheels.

Other than that, your best choice may be to just suck it up and save for/spend the £££ on proper equipment. You get what you pay for and all that.

Comment on Fat Fucking Bastard by epocalypse

epocalypse — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:34:04 +0000

Good luck with that. As someone who has ballooned to over 18 stone in the last few years (I’m a bit of a short arse so it’s even worse than it sounds) I know that excercising safely can be tricky.

Walking is good too though.