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by jboynyc 13y ago
That sounds about right. I definitely used it in 2005, maybe even 2004.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
This is neat, and I found a few queries that added interesting results. However, I tried Slavoj Žižek - Jacques Lacan - Hegel which yielded an internal server error, probably due to the diacritics not being encoded properly.
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Map: More than half of humanity lives within this circle(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by jboynyc 13y ago|2 comments
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McKenzie Wark's games to beat writer's block(publicseminar.org)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
The true size of Africa: http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/ The historian Marshall Hodgson referred to the Mercator projection as the "Jim Crow projection." This is why.
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You Can Sleep Here All Night(jacobinmag.com)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
I came here to say the same thing. > Sorry, your browser ins't [sic] supported yet. On a bleeding-edge Firefox.
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Mailiverse - Secure mail for everyone(mailiverse.com)
1 points by jboynyc 13y ago|2 comments
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Libertarianism From Above and Below(peterfrase.com)
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What Kind of Problem is the ACA Rollout for Liberalism?(nextnewdeal.net)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
I know this may seem outdated, but Aristotle's Ethics may be a good place to start: http://www.iep.utm.edu/aris-eth/#H1
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On Lists and Networks: An Archaeology of Form(amodern.net)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Ian Hacking had a great review of the DSM-5 in the LRB earlier this year: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n15/ian-hacking/lost-in-the-forest
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by jboynyc 13y ago
And an 'i': http://web.archive.org/web/20060802094251/http://www.twttr.c...
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Lua support in the NetBSD kernel(mail-index.netbsd.org)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
> There is an economic benefit to specialization. I worry that gets forgotten when this debate comes up. It's possible to be mindful of the economic benefit and still lament what specialization does to the human spirit. Max Weber&
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by jboynyc 13y ago
What's next? EXAMPLE.COM becomes an actual site?
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by jboynyc 13y ago
This column mentions Ha-Joon Chang, a great commentator on the discipline of economics from the inside. I really enjoyed this recording of a talk he gave at the LSE: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Yes, that's what I expected to find when I clicked on "Getting Started." However, that just shows you the location of their code repository.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Interesting in light of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504331 But to trust that something like this to make a permanent copy of stuff I'm linking to, I'd need to know a bit more about the
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Aha. I thought it would make a single article "skimmable" -- I didn't realize this was about feeds. At the very least it should capture the error and give some kind of feedback.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Pasted a URI, hit return, got "Processing...", then nothing further happened. The console (Firebug on FF25) shows the following error: 422 Unprocessable Entity {"error":"Could not get any feed"}
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Disconnect Search: Search privately using your favorite search engine(disconnect.me)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Another nice option is the Hackberry. https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer...
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by jboynyc 13y ago
"one tiny drop changes everything." They might want to come up with a different tag line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_drop_rule
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Conceiving Ada (1997) - watch the movie free online(snagfilms.com)
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by jboynyc 13y ago
I'm not even sure what entertains "us" today. Leisure-time activities vary by class, race, occupation, age and many other (ever increasingly specific) social categories. Some of us are "laptop loners" [1] while othe
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by jboynyc 13y ago
tl;dr: The IA site could use a redesign. (Anybody who's ever visited the site knows that. It doesn't mean the IA sucks.) Edit: It's also not clear to me why the author suggests starting the redesign with the home page. I woul
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Employers Often More Interested in Hiring Playmates Than Best Candidates (2012)(asanet.org)
2 points by jboynyc 13y ago|1 comments
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by jboynyc 13y ago
It may be a rant, but your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove its point wrong. In fact, a recent influential paper by sociologist Lauren Rivera [1] suggests that cultural "fit" is indeed an important aspect in many hiring decis

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