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by idw 3y ago
Agree. I thought the leverage one was the odd one out - more ego than impact. I think high impact organizations are usually made out of individually low leverage people working together
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by idw 3y ago
FYI it's called flash paper, plenty of sources online
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by idw 3y ago
I'm curious what about Fedora specifically makes the difference for you? I started using Cinnamon with Mint (derived from Ubuntu, Debian) last year and also found it a big improvement from Windows.
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by idw 3y ago
I was part of the team that set up a non-profit, was CEO of that, am CEO of another. I suggest testing very carefully the idea that a non-profit is the best way to work on whatever idea or problem you're interested in. For-profits only
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by idw 3y ago
The ISSN registry (and usually the relevant national copyright library, I think) Both examples mentioned turn up on an ISSN search Antarctica Journal of Mathematics https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0972-8643
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by idw 3y ago
I respect you for asking. Learning to manage better has never stopped for me but the difference between no training and some is massive. It will be good for you and your colleagues. The book that has made the most difference to me as a mana
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by idw 3y ago
The Cochrane Collaboration does systematic reviews of the research into health interventions. There are quite a few reviews of different tinnitus interventions here, from zinc supplements to cognitive behavioral therapy https://w
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by idw 5y ago
Can someone explain to me what is the benefit of taking control of freenode? Is there an income stream or something?
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by idw 5y ago
Actually Deaf people have campaigned against a proposal to ban the selection of embryos based on a preference to have a Deaf child, because they wanted to be able to choose to have a Deaf child. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1&#x2F
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UK legal system assumes that computers don't have bugs(postofficetrial.com)
41 points by idw 6y ago|24 comments
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by idw 6y ago
> I really wish polls like these would include a control question, something utterly implausible... Whatever percent of people answer yes to the hippo question get subtracted out from the other questions. This is standard in appropriate
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by idw 6y ago
Congratulations! Nice problem to have. Others are better placed but you've been waiting an hour... - You say "Starting up is the most challenging job ": what if you assume it doesn't get any easier? - What are the downsi
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by idw 7y ago
Charities should use direct debit not card details for regular donations but direct debits are much more expensive. If they used direct debits you wouldn't need to update anything when you got a new card. If these organisations had eit
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by idw 10y ago
It's launched in the US, Germany, and France so far. It started in the US, and Germany and France both have elections coming up. Launching depends at least on having factcheckers or mainstream media outlets doing factchecking active in
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by idw 10y ago
I second the Two Scoops book. Django documentation is excellent (try the tutorial if you want a quick sense of django). Two Scoops help you understand why to do things in particular ways and make good design choices within all the things dj
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by idw 10y ago
If you're interested in this problem, there's a roadmap for automated factchecking from UK factcheckers Full Fact here (I work there): https://fullfact.org/automated , which has just got some funding from Google. T
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by idw 11y ago
We (I work there) don't have one yet but we wanted to get this line of work in the open asap. The next steps are (glossing over enormous amounts of work casually): 1- Test that untrained coders have a high level of agreement in how the
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by idw 13y ago
It's likely that this will be an extension of s63 of existing 'extreme pornography' ban in s63 etc. of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/
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by idw 13y ago
I get to take part in a lot of these discussions and find the following response handy (via http://newsmary.tumblr.com/post/32264906546/your-approach-to... ): Your post advocates a ( ) technical (X) legislative () market-based (
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by idw 13y ago
It's a bit more limited than that: during election campaigns (which last a few weeks in the UK) it's illegal for anyone to lie about other candidates' personal character with the intention of affecting the vote. e.g. s106 Representation of
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Trust and transparency(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by idw 14y ago|0 comments
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by idw 14y ago
Not just good, outstanding, and despite their technical sophistication, bytemark is still run by its founders, who you're quite likely to deal with personally. (I have been a happy personal customer for years, and have recommended them to o