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by jboynyc 4y ago
This publication was started by Nathan Jurgenson, an American sociologist who was hired by Snapchat out of grad school as a sort of resident theorist. (He was a student of George Ritzer, of "McDonaldization" fame, and applied a si
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by jboynyc 4y ago
Fines for GDPR violations work that way too. A severe violation can be penalized with "a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher." http
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by jboynyc 4y ago
Perhaps a Walter White quote is fitting here: "I'm in the empire business."
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by jboynyc 4y ago
You can also use a pandoc filter to turn code blocks with Pikchr code into inline images. https://code.jboy.space/pikchr-filter/
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by jboynyc 4y ago
I agree that Taskwarrior is a really powerful tool for getting organized. In combination with vim, vimwiki and taskwiki, it is even more powerful.
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StretchText(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jboynyc 4y ago|0 comments
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Or turn tweets into webmentions using https://brid.gy/
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by jboynyc 5y ago
I believe Lobste.rs is a good citizen and sends a webmention. Other services could follow suit. There'd be no need for an additional product then.
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by jboynyc 5y ago
I'm not sure that's true anymore. The one thing that I find interesting about the R community (being at home in Pythonland myself) is the availability of great teaching and learning resources. At least that's the case in the
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First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: KDE's Popular PDF Reader Okular(eco.kde.org)
74 points by jboynyc 5y ago|25 comments
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by jboynyc 5y ago
I must admit I simply didn't realize the pulseaudio commands would still work. I figured they wouldn't because they were no longer installed after disabling pulseaudio and switching to pipewire. That's why I was trying to mak
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by jboynyc 5y ago
I recently made the switch in NixOS and found it pretty painless. Can't get my mic to work in Firefox though, and the other day I was looking through the manual trying to figure out how to use my HDMI screen's speakers rather than
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by jboynyc 5y ago
From TFA: “chatting with friends can bring closure when they help you reconstrue an event, rather than just recount it. What does that look like? Asking why you think the other person acted that way, prodding to see whether there’s anything
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by jboynyc 5y ago
That part about how some people have strong opinions about what absolutely needs to be in a proposal, but if you look at a handful of successful ones, there's no clear winning recipe, really resonated, having recently gone through this
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Nice writeup, keep it up!
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by jboynyc 5y ago
One reason is the lag between a paper being "online first" vs. being included in an issue. I've seen as much as three years (paper published in its accepted form in 2017 but not included in an issue till 2020).
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Another important contribution summarizing the new evidence just appeared at Undark: https://undark.org/2022/02/16/new-evidence-revives-old-quest...
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Book 1 was amazing, can't wait for renovations on the sequel to be done!
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by jboynyc 5y ago
I appreciated this careful look at the legacy of E.O. Wilson and his sociobiology by historians who actually bothered to study his archive to adjudicate some of the claims that have been made about Wilson since his death, both by detractors
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Ideology as Biology(nybooks.com)
2 points by jboynyc 5y ago|2 comments
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Can tell from what you linked, does this JSON format have anything like bib(la)tex's \mkbibquote and \mkbibemph?
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective!
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Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries(nature.com)
2 points by jboynyc 5y ago|2 comments
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by jboynyc 5y ago
came here to say the same. great book!
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Also Grafoscopio: https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/readme....
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by jboynyc 5y ago
You might have more fun reading Marcel Mauss' classic, also called The Gift , on the structure and function of gift exchange across various societies.
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Worker Data Science Can Teach Us How to Fix the Gig Economy(wired.com)
5 points by jboynyc 5y ago|0 comments
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Kieran Healy's Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction https://kieranhealy.org/publications/dataviz/
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by jboynyc 5y ago
Shameless plug of a thing I wrote about the same essay. Might be useful for added context. https://axyl.us/post/3048516084/waking-up-to-fatigue-society I wrote it before an English translation was published, so I
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Penpot Is Now Beta(penpot.app)
4 points by jboynyc 5y ago|1 comments

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