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by frabbit 8y ago
Labour is a party that since the Kinnock purges of the 1980s only retained a rump of what could be described as `left-wing` and a majority that whole-heartedly embraced neo-liberal economics. Since the democratic upheaval within Labour (res
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by frabbit 8y ago
The downvoting of the above comment is ridiculous. There are two distinct issues: 1) ads may persuade voters to do X 2) the belief that everyone is seeing the same ads As the above comment correctly points out this story offers no evidence
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by frabbit 8y ago
And also the telephone `robocall' e.g. the Canadian conservative party`s voter suppression attempts : https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/key-facts-in-canada-s-roboc...
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by frabbit 8y ago
So is there any evidence for that hypothesis? Namely that Cambridge Analytica's campaigns resulted in a higher turn out of Trump voters?
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by frabbit 8y ago
Is that the same as Casella & Berger? Nice Sherlock Holmes quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Happy clappy sales team. Yuck. Complete with emojis.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Agreed. Obviously you are being voted down by people who are spankers, but just can't reach you through the intertubes, no matter how hard they try. We have never had to spank. Maybe we'll regret it when they turn into heroin a
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by frabbit 8y ago
My blood boils. Truly. I would hope my kids would tell her to fuck off.
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by frabbit 8y ago
It's all down to cars. In two ways, one of them less facetious than the other: 1) Automobiles have a vast amount of land space dedicated to them. And the land that is not physically occupied by parking lots and roads is subdivided, s
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Structural Demographic Theory Analysis of the USA(salon.com)
1 points by frabbit 8y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 8y ago
Perceived Physical Activity and Morality would also be an interesting study.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Agreed. That was immediately the example of which I thought. The article makes no effort to distinguish whether it is the genre of music or simply its insistent and pervasive high volume that is unpleasant. I do hope it that it all backfire
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Intel stops reverse engineering of their dodgy firmware(twitter.com)
19 points by frabbit 8y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 8y ago
The Lincoln Brigade/Battalion were not dupes. They were the only Americans who actually volunteered to fight fascism, while large numbers of their countrymen and corporations actively collaborated with it. They were exploited and betr
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by frabbit 8y ago
The POUM were Trotskyists and most definitely did not have "anarchist leanings". The only commonality they had with the anarchists (who were far more numerous and militarily effective) was that the Communists attacked both of the
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by frabbit 8y ago
I think you're seeing liberals and conservatives being even-handedly "triggered". Or maybe people are telling themselve that they are sick of politics being discussed, yet they keep coming back to it and lapping it up.
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by frabbit 8y ago
And committed genocide against the original inhabitants and wiped out vast numbers of species. So, yeah, laws against Fake News as defined by a bunch of religious maniacs are great.
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by frabbit 8y ago
That was the first thing that popped into my mind. Now you could subsitute "The Russians" or "Paedophiles" or "Terrorists" for that part in the narrative.
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by frabbit 9y ago
As it turns out I was wrong about one of those points: in fact the course prefers that you avoid MSVisualStudioCode and instead use the Jupyter notebooks. But, this bring us back to a much more central topic in data science : the tools a
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by frabbit 9y ago
There are at least two big turn-offs to this course at first blush: 1) they insist on using anaconda (effectively another package manager complicating the already layered interaction of system pip, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper etc ). 2) th
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by frabbit 9y ago
The Pyra's PowerVR GPU is disappointing. I wonder how good power control will be without a free driver.
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by frabbit 9y ago
That would be one positive thing that could come out of this criticism.
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by frabbit 9y ago
Also that only GNOME appears to have color management. XFCE and KDE seem to be lacking in that regard.
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by frabbit 9y ago
I found the Guardian version¹ of this story a bit more rounded and informative. The quotes from Adam Brumm about the possibility that the calcium deposits are not actually beneath the paintings was interesting. 1. https://www.the
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by frabbit 9y ago
Zotero fills this need for me very well. A two-stage reading cycle of harvesting/tagging/saving followed by a later slow reading. https://www.zotero.org/
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by frabbit 9y ago
Meh, sorry. I meant this as a reply to a comment downthread which referenced https://www.codelitt.com/blog/my-first-10-minutes-on-a-serve...
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by frabbit 9y ago
I think it's a useful shorthand to indicate that someone/some entity is making too big a fuss about actions for which they intend to garner approbation. I especially like using it as it has become irritatingly common as a critici
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by frabbit 9y ago
> Do these types of PR lines from companies that make productivity tools actually resonate with folks? In the case of Dropbox, for me, it comes across as cynical virtue signalling. If Dropbox were funding the EFF or the FSF or even dropp
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by frabbit 9y ago
In case anyone else was wondering: "Shipyard" is a mothballed Docker compose project https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard
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by frabbit 9y ago
"Pinker knows this because he’s already been through the process with his previous book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, which persuasively argued – again with graphs and a mountain of research " Admittedly I did not read TBEoON,

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