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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure(hitchhikersclojure.com)
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Previous HN discussion on Monkeysphere, a Debian project which implements something like what the author envisions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617132 And the description from the Monkeysphere site on why they are
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A trope that refuses to die: "It’s been an incredible journey".
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I concur. Another result of informing the public in this manner is that reporting on the leak is murky and alarmist. Yesterday I watched the Tagesschau , a highly-regarded public TV news program, and their report on this story was so short
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Deconstructing The Philosophies Of 'RoboCop'(npr.org)
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How the FBI Goes After Activists(vice.com)
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You Are Too Much(thenewinquiry.com)
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A great book on the general context of what counts as an explanation in biology -- and, by extension, why the mathematical biological approach advanced by Turing never really caught on -- is presented in Evelyn Fox Keller's Making Sen
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Perhaps surprisingly in an interview that's mostly about technical issues, Tristan Sloughter makes some very smart points about labor: global labor issues: With high unemployment, and high under-employment, it is said you should feel
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Flatten a list of lists with a list comprehension(jugad2.blogspot.com)
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I like y_serial, a library to store compressed Python objects in a sqlite database. http://yserial.sf.net/
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Reminds me of Slavoj Žižek, who is fond of inverting the slogan ‘Don’t just talk, do something!’ to remind activists that sometimes it is more important to analyze a situation than chase after the instant gratification that comes from doing
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Two big announcements(37signals.com)
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I don't really think that's what it's modeled on. More likely it's a descendant of the New York Times format for multimodal stories à la "Snow Fall": http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012&
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Xkcd and the will to be the underdog(fredrikdeboer.com)
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It's true, the word seems to be in use a lot lately. However, "privilege" just happens to be the word in the English language for when a social group gets preferential treatment -- or literally, their own "private law&
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Individual cases can of course always be dismissed, but I think the author does a very good job at showing there's a broader social dynamic at play. This piece is worth reading to the end.
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Pussy Riot band members to be freed from Russian jail (csmonitor.com)
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The blog is dead, long live the blog(niemanlab.org)
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Also, encourage institutions to set up repositories. They're not yet as common as your comment implies.
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Tone-Deaf at the Listening Post(foreignpolicy.com)
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Not sure I follow. Significant parts of the left see the institutions of the state as a means to the realization of democracy. Take, for instance, most socialist, social-democratic, or Left parties in contemporary Europe. They advocate for
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Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left(jacobinmag.com)
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OpenStreetMap's Redesign Goes Live(mapbox.com)
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Recasting high school, German firms transplant apprentice model to U.S.(washingtonpost.com)
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Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did(theguardian.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
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In the meantime you can read her ASR article, which someone was kind enough to make available here: http://www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/Goffman_ASR_09.pdf
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The submitter has posted about registering .IO domains on her/his blog: http://hack.ly/articles/app-io-acquired/
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I clicked on FAQ hoping to learn a bit about how featured favors are selected, what principles inform the selection process (Christian charity as the Mother Theresa quote suggests, or something else?), and what level of vetting goes into it

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