abathur

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by abathur 7y ago
I was already coming here to comment (even before you said this) on how this seems to rhyme with picturing something in your mind's eye , which I always grokked as being figurative speech. I realized through my relationship with my pa
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by abathur 7y ago
It's not perfect, but IMO yadm ( https://yadm.io/docs/overview ) significantly improves some of the git tedium here. It's like discovering that there's a special type of hammer just for the task you'r
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by abathur 7y ago
This. And the possibility space is daunting. And many of the changes can unfold drastically faster than sea level rise. Consider things like: The difference in the number destabilizing European politics, compared to the numbers at risk of d
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by abathur 7y ago
Not unrelated to CR, but I'd like to take it further than they do. A more comprehensive effort to cobble together a purchasing block as leverage to encourage better behavior from producers, develop lists of design/production/
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by abathur 7y ago
I've been daydreaming about a new sort of consumer's union to address this, among other problems (designed obsolescence, meaningless redesign cycles that make an existing product more cheaply--but not cheaper, astroturfed reviews,
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by abathur 7y ago
I don't recall where, but I recently saw something about the net effect on long-run global temperature being muddled if the tree's dark foliage absorbs more heat than baseline for the environment. I'm not sure if that's
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by abathur 7y ago
Definitely shouldn't preclude independent audits. Lazy thinking, on my part. The thought was that mandatory audits would help maintain long-term confidence by avoiding erosion of confidence in long gaps where no specific evidence trigg
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by abathur 7y ago
Good point; I wasn't factoring in the existing public voting records. I'm not sure what the contact rates would look like if you tried, but retroactive sampling should have a good chance of spotting systemic abuse if response rate
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by abathur 7y ago
Maybe? I won't assert it doesn't, since I don't know. It certainly seems to be a tolerable solution to the questions of whether votes were changed, or whether ballots were disappeared without counting. But I don't see ho
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by abathur 7y ago
I've been accumulating a mental list of properties that would support less-exploitable, more-auditable paper balloting. This has a surprising number of the properties. The main items I don't see represented are all roughly related
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by abathur 7y ago
This is a good point. I don't mean this as a what-about, but it's worth noting: any ballots that list the party of the candidates or offer single-action straight-party votes are effectively a subtle form of a ballot pre-populated
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by abathur 7y ago
Thanks for responding, and for correcting my takeaway. I agree it's not an accurate statement. We might be chasing our tails at this point. Power imbalances (current and historic legacy) is a big component of what I mean when I say thi
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by abathur 7y ago
Sigh. I think you are trying to point out that we were wily enough to survive past swings with a fraction of the technological arsenal we have today. Is that fair? We know some humans survived history. How many? Where did they live? Did t
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by abathur 8y ago
Prions remind me of ice-nine.
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by abathur 8y ago
This might be too flippant, but I'm not sure how much stock I would put in any academic/intellectual that hasn't directly challenged at least one professor/advisor/mentor/peer's thinking with rigorously re
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by abathur 8y ago
My point is that the parent might enjoy reading a fairly short, broad, systematic, accessible introductory textbook informed by ~50 years of studying power in America more than they might enjoy me telling them what to think.
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by abathur 8y ago
I've been mulling this a lot for a while now. I see so much vacant space and wonder how much of a boon it would be to small entrepreneurs and communities if the market were optimizing for filling a larger share of rental space. I suppo
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by abathur 8y ago
You should read the 7th (2013) edition of Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff. It's a little pricy (it's a textbook) for a used copy on Amazon at the moment, but I watched the listings for a while and managed to pick up two c
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by abathur 8y ago
What portion of the delta in republican/democrat identification do you think might be attributable to the much more significant skew between the age of Twitter users and the general population? This data suggests that, on Twitter: 18-2
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by abathur 8y ago
Not affiliated, and have not used this yet. Stumbled on a mention of a sub-command in an SO answer. Found the what-is page interesting. A little surprised, given the scope and focus on UNIX philosophy of this project, at the lack of discuss
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MCMD: Commands for high-speed processing of large-scale CSV tables(nysol.jp)
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by abathur 8y ago
Since you are aware of a dozen others: are you aware of a curated list, or set of keywords for finding the majority? edit: aside from the new list of "classless CSS frameworks/themes" mentioned in @networked's post.
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by abathur 8y ago
Sure. I'm just saying something like: it's good to be conscientious of the habits and convenience paths (i.e., feedback loops) we develop, and of those our actions incentivize others to develop. Some people who get fired at the be
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by abathur 8y ago
I'm not sure you'll find them upsetting, but I have a few thoughts: 1. Imagine a scenario where we need <legislation> that recognizes the needs/desires/opinions/opportunities/suffering of multiple constit
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by abathur 8y ago
Interesting work, YazIAm. Conceptually this reminds me a little bit of the idea behind Kialo. Down the road, there might be some interesting synergy potential between fact attestation and debate. I've had a few related thoughts, on the
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by abathur 8y ago
I don't think this sort of effort has to be ironclad to be meaningful. The margins could be a big deal, here. Some sort of attestation toolchain might enable people who care about evidence to produce more strongly-attested cases, and t
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by abathur 8y ago
OP didn't say it was sexism, they said it was offputting.
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by abathur 8y ago
But did we have any of them before we invented the shower?
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by abathur 8y ago
I think they are just counting the "reaction" of the users with the content, and suggesting there are a greater portion of people picking the "angry" reaction on the Fox News articles.
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by abathur 8y ago
Link in parent is dead; looks like correct is: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm...

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