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by gigama 7y ago
"Instead of linear cause-effect, systems thinking emphasises interrelationships. Rather than static snapshots, systems thinking steers our attention towards patterns of change. To start perceiving interrelationships and patterns of cha
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"According to systems thinking, changing the food system — or any other network — requires three things to happen. First, researchers need to identify all the players in that system; second, they must work out how they relate to each o
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Imagine a world without hunger, then make it happen with systems thinking(nature.com)
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"I sometimes think, 'What if some creepo is looking in the window?' It could be a corporate creepo... It's wrong. We need to put a stop to it." Respect others as you would want to be respected. Don't be a #corp
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Why Elizabeth Warren Feels 'Uneasy' Online(nytimes.com)
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"A future that plans on everything going right so no one has to think about what happens when things go wrong. Because computers don’t make mistakes. An automated future where no one actually knows how things work." Sounds like a
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Cool js demo, certainly worth reposting. Since he credits Steven Strogatz here's the link to Steven's 2008 TED on synchronicity and emergent behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNrKS-sCE0
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by gigama 7y ago
Arundhati Roy has always been a powerful voice for humanity, diversity, and freedom and this Nation article is no exception. Worth reading and contemplating what is happening, right now, in the second most populated country in the world. &
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Everybody’s Watching You: The Intercept’s 2019 Technology Coverage(theintercept.com)
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"GitHub intends to store every public GitHub repository on film reels coated with iron oxide powder, which can be readable for 1,000 years using either a computer or a magnifying glass. Those who wish to add their code to the vault hav
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Long Now Partners with GitHub on Long-Term Archive Program for Open Source Code(blog.longnow.org)
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"Uncle Police" must be the Chinese term for "Big Brother"
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"My students had such a fierce passion and thirst for learning the material. The continuous stream of questions during classes was a testament to their refusal to be satisfied by mere knowledge and to their incomparable commitment to a
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EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance(schneier.com)
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Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow(newyorker.com)
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Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance "The most prevalent threat to our privacy is the slow, steady, relentless accumulation of relatively mundane data points about how we live our lives.
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Big Tech’s Personal Data Trackers Lurking on Social Media, Websites, and Apps(eff.org)
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by gigama 7y ago
Same thought, same choir. Stopped feeding their fidget spinner profit engine years ago. Have more interesting things to spend time on these days (like reading HN). Easiest way to quit was to add "facebook.com" to my LAN's pi
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by gigama 7y ago
Bugs are what you get when you move fast.
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Economics for Hard Times(news.mit.edu)
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Elegant solution, learned something new today, thanks for posting. $ ent -bc <filename>
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The Beauty of Mathematics(blog.mathspace.co)
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"Curious things start to happen to people when they listen generously. At the most superficial level, one hears things that he or she might not like. But one also hears the sincerity of people’s convictions, the authenticity of their e
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by gigama 7y ago
"For mathematicians, pi obscures some of the underlying symmetries of mathematics and muddies up what should be elegant with extraneous factors of two. There’s an admittedly grandiose idea that mathematics is the language with which we
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America’s newest military giant: Amazon(technologyreview.com)
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At-Liberty Podcast: Edward Snowden Permanent Record(aclu.org)
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Very cool, exploring math visually like this fills me with harmonic happiness.
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The DOJ pushing their case against Snowden's potential book profits nicely reminds everyone about the US government's illegal surveillance programs and simultaneously helps promote the book. If I were Macmillan I'd consider n
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Meanwhile a sitting US President can profit from royalties, remunerations, and emoluments that have resulted, will result or may result from foreigners and diplomats renting hotel rooms and golf courses owned (not divested) by same Presiden
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Interesting project and clear, logical write-up. Shows their practical approach to a real-world problem and (once again) demonstrates how "secure" devices often actually aren't. Even employing low-cost ML to augment the hum

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