there was a talk about the state of luakit recently and the original author has created its dedicated organization and migrated the codebase. So there's some new interests in developing it future, adding webkit2 supports etc. this fork at https://github.com/aidanholm/luakit has seen some new developments on the webkit2 front.
the airstrip was built by my friend martijn (https://github.com/MartijnR) when he worked as a construction expert with the Red Cross in Darfur. He had to "hire somebody to chase away goats before plane landing".
We are a university lab under The Earth Institute at Columbia University. We are building open source softwares to help developments in various countries in the world with a kick of technology.
Currently we are involved in a data collection / analysis project in Nigeria, an infrastructure planner project for remote islands in Indonesia and many more. We also have a team in Narobi, Kenya with whom the New York team work very closely. Our stacks includes but not limited to python, javascript, django, nodejs and we are always looking forward for new technology.
We are looking for hackers who are passionate about the stuff that helps the world sucks a little less. If you are interested in hacking with us, traveling to the developing world, please go to the afromentioned github job repo to contact us.
With no attempt to disapprove the medical~execution claim, there exists quite a number of over generalization of the political and cultural background of Uighurs and Xinjiang. The history told in the article was sort of misleading. I grew up with some of them and there are more content to the current situation. Please consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people for a fuller understanding. I am no wiser than wikipedia.
transportation is marked 127.5% of average US cost. I wonder if it's from the price of gas and knowing that people don't really drive to work as much in manhattan.
according to wirefly, verizon's basic plan is $60 per month for 450min and $30 additional for the basic basic data plan (4GB personal email only no idea what it means). That's a whopping $90 for a basic plan and I don't know if the data plan is viable to unleash Nexus Galaxy's power. Anything above that is going to be over $100 per phone. For comparison I just checkd out Sprint plan which is $70 per month with 450 min unlimited data. that's at least $20 per month and if you add the data plan you wanted it's easily going to be $40 difference per month. The unlocked version sells for $749 and with the verizon plan it sells for $189, which is $560 difference. With a $10GB data plan from verizon (seems to be the best discounted value) it costs $110/month from verizon yields a $40 difference per month. This will make up the difference ($560) in 14 mnoths. It mean this verizon offer is only cheaper if we are not forced to sign a two year contract and you are ought to migrate to some plans much cheaper as soon as you get the phone. Does it make sense?