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by jboynyc 8y ago
I think that would be history, Huizinga's "home" discipline.
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This I have also found to be the case, though ultimately I also focused more on learning Racket because, coming from Python, I was used to a more "batteries included" experience.
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Russell Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals (1987) is a book about how the humanities and social sciences professionalized and lost their grander vision. Essentially Jacoby claims that gentrification and the expansion of academia killed
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IBM is preparing for a UK exit from the EU(ibm.com)
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Goodbye to All That(karengregoryphd.wordpress.com)
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by jboynyc 8y ago
The repository is here: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser If you want to try it out while the API is still accessible, visit https://mercurizer.herokuapp.com/
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Here's a little write-up from somebody who uses Racket in production in a commercial web product: https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/05/extramaze-llc-using-...
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Here's another example, the Journal of Machine Learning Research , where the cost of publishing an article works out to about $10: https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j... (p
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by jboynyc 8y ago
ha, love it!
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I've been wanting to watch it since seeing it described as "a Marxist fantasy" in this essay: https://www.eater.com/2018/10/19/17995884/salt-fat-acid-heat...
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by jboynyc 8y ago
Syndication is already there; this example from the demo instance might not survive for long, but it works right now: https://pencil.writefree.ly/foo/feed/
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Astronomers see material orbiting a black hole *right* at the edge of forever(syfy.com)
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Your "challenge" isn't difficult at all. Just look at every EU country where Christian democrats and other conservative parties neither trump up stories of voter fraud nor pursue policies to keep young people, women, urban dw
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The Gospel of Wealth(dissentmagazine.org)
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Creative Commons Submits Amicus Brief on Proper Interpretation of BY-NC-SA 4.0(creativecommons.org)
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Wikimatrix.org provides a comparison of solutions. Here are hosted solutions that support wysiwyg, your own domain and custom branding (minus Wikia): https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/BrainKeeper%2BCentralDesk... Use
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According to the BBC: > Workers in the US will be paid $15 an hour, compared to the minimum wage of $7.25. > Those in the UK will be paid £9.50, or £10.50 in London, compared to the minimum UK wage rate of £7.83 for over 25s and £7.38
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Amazon raising minimum wage for all U.S. employees to $15(twitter.com)
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More contemporarily, George Herbert Mead's influence is based mainly on his transcribed lectures contained in Man, Self and Society . Mead wrote a good deal during his lifetime, but always relatively short pieces that he never bothere
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> Piwik is a popular open-source alternative. Now called Matomo ( https://matomo.org/ ).
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I was a Soverin customer for a year but recently made the switch to Fastmail. I really wanted to like them, but sadly it seems like Soverin is content with their product being in a (barely) beta state. During the year that I used them, ther
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by jboynyc 8y ago
I believe Popula.com is trying to fill that void. They have fantastic writers but I'm unsure of their business model (it seems to depend on blockchain as a magic fix).
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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion(doi.org)
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If it's academic, Academia.edu has a feature to request feedback. I've seen people use this feature for rough drafts and even paper outlines and slides. The feature is described here: http://support.academia.edu/cu
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Global Online Piracy Study(ivir.nl)
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Voices of Idlib(crisisgroup.org)
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If you grew up in a conservative evangelical setting, as I did, you might have been taught that the peace sign is meant to evoke the claw of Satan and/or an upside cross and that it is therefore an anti-Christian sign. I never really b
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I wasn't commenting on any one book, but observing a pattern about the entire series.
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True, but I think any decent publishing house in 2018 would look at its lineup of authors and, upon finding it all-male, would go back to the drawing board. Stripe did not do that. They ran with it.
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That's a very good question. They call the series "Ideas for Progress," and yet all the authors are men based in the U.S., and everyone blurbing these books also appears to be a man based in the U.S. Fine, okay, maybe sometim

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