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Sunday, 7 January 2018
quote [ We’ve all passed by homeless people in the street and wondered if there was anything we could do to help them, but what if helping them was as simple as pulling out our smart phone and punching a few buttons? ]
I really like this idea, although I changed the title from "Hacking Amazon Prime..." to "Using Amazon Prime..." since the word, "hacking," is overuse and miss-used way too often. Also, we could use more positive SE posts.
I like the idea of making the barrier to giving as low as possible. This article almost made me give in and get a damned Prime subscription. Instead, I just keep an extra $20 bill folded up in the back of my wallet for whenever I see someone in need. By pre-designating that money, it makes it easy to give away. If I lived in a big urban area, I'd quickly be broke, but as is, it only happens now and then.
In college, I had a friend who kept fresh fruit and canned goods in his car to give away. Later when he was living without a vehicle in Baltimore, he'd usually carry a few apples or oranges to give. It's definitely not following the philosophy of Effective Altruism, but it helps assuage my middle class white male privilege guilt. https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ (Edit) I just found these on Amazon.
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steele said @ 8:11pm GMT on 7th January
Lol, I appreciate it, but things are very complicated right now. My grandmother passed away late November leaving me with my 93 yo grandfather to look after. So my wings are basically clipped for the next couple years until we get him into a full care home. And! I've actually been waiting on work now for a few months that would pay for a van, plus the upgrades needed, but the company I'm waiting on is dragging their heels on an accounting software upgrade since mid summer. Fun, fun. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get my VR, electronics, and machine learning skills in order and at least put lowkeysoft on the map enough to become eligible for developer kits that I can't otherwise afford. Figure I'll spend the next two years prepping. And by the time my grandfather is at the top of the waiting list for the home I'll have a decent stealth van, the knowledge from my previous years in the woods, and enough contacts to put some of my more interesting projects into play.
steele said @ 8:17pm GMT on 7th January
Lol, I appreciate it, but things are very complicated right now. My grandmother passed away late November leaving me with my 93 yo grandfather to look after. So my wings are basically clipped for the next couple years until we get him into a full care home. And! I've actually been waiting on work now for a few months that would pay for a van, plus the upgrades needed, but the company I'm waiting on is dragging their heels on an accounting software upgrade since mid summer. Fun, fun. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get my VR, electronics, and machine learning skills in order and at least put lowkeysoft on the map enough to become eligible for developer kits that I can't otherwise afford. Figure I'll spend the next two years prepping. And by the time my grandfather is at the top of the waiting list for the home I'll have a decent stealth van, the knowledge from my previous years in the woods, and enough contacts to put some of my more interesting projects into play.
However, if anyone has PC EEG equipment (like emotive) they can donate... :D
steele said @ 8:18pm GMT on 7th January
Lol, I appreciate it, but things are very complicated right now. My grandmother passed away late November leaving me with my 93 yo grandfather to look after. So my wings are basically clipped for the next couple years until we get him into a full care home. And! I've actually been waiting on work now for a few months that would pay for a van, plus the upgrades needed, but the company I'm waiting on is dragging their heels on an accounting software upgrade since mid summer. Fun, fun. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get my VR, electronics, and machine learning skills in order and at least put lowkeysoft on the map enough to become eligible for developer kits that I can't otherwise afford. Figure I'll spend the next two years prepping. And by the time my grandfather is at the top of the waiting list for the home I'll have a decent stealth van, the knowledge from my previous years in the woods, and enough contacts to put some of my more interesting projects into play.
However, if anyone has PC EEG equipment (like emotiv) they can donate... :D
steele said @ 8:19pm GMT on 7th January
Lol, I appreciate it, but things are very complicated right now. My grandmother passed away late November leaving me with my 93 yo grandfather to look after. So my wings are basically clipped for the next couple years until we get him into a full care home. And! I've actually been waiting on work now for a few months that would pay for a van, plus the upgrades needed, but the company I'm waiting on is dragging their heels on an accounting software upgrade since mid summer. Fun, fun. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get my VR, electronics, and machine learning skills in order and at least put lowkeysoft on the map enough to become eligible for developer kits that I can't otherwise afford. Figure I'll spend the next two years prepping. And by the time my grandfather is at the top of the waiting list for the home I'll have a decent stealth van, the knowledge from my previous years in the woods, and enough contacts to put some of my more interesting projects into play.
However, if anyone has VR or PC EEG equipment (like emotiv, openbci) they can donate... :D
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steele said @ 8:11pm GMT on 7th January
Lol, I appreciate it, but things are very complicated right now. My grandmother passed away late November leaving me with my 93 yo grandfather to look after. So my wings are basically clipped for the next couple years until we get him into a full care home. And! I've actually been waiting on work now for a few months that would pay for a van, plus the upgrades needed, but the company I'm waiting on is dragging their heels on an accounting software upgrade since mid summer. Fun, fun. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get my VR, electronics, and machine learning skills in order and at least put lowkeysoft on the map enough to become eligible for developer kits that I can't otherwise afford. Figure I'll spend the next two years prepping. And by the time my grandfather is at the top of the waiting list for the home I'll have a decent stealth van, the knowledge from my previous years in the woods, and enough contacts to put some of my more interesting projects into play.
However, if anyone has VR or PC EEG equipment (like emotiv, openbci) they can donate... :D
