jboynyc

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Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by jboynyc 9y ago|0 comments
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Gene Sharp, US scholar whose writing helped inspire Arab Spring, dies at 90(theguardian.com)
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As others have pointed out in responding to you, you don't only have to be following the super-rich and super-successful for your feeds to project an image skewed toward their experiences. Thanks to the heavy-tailed distribution of m
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> we tend to believe that ideas spread via diffusion, maybe that is not so at all. That was also what Karl Jaspers claimed in The Origin and Goal of History with regard to earlier intellectual breakthroughs in the first millennium BCE
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What's nice about Fish is that you don't really have to configure anything to get a lot of interactive goodies.
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I switched to Fish about half a year ago after reading Julia Evans' essay singing its praises: https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/23/the-fish-shell-is-awesome/ I think what convinced me was the last
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New European privacy NGO to enforce fundamental rights vs. tech giants(noyb.eu)
2 points by jboynyc 9y ago|0 comments
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A sociologist has helpfully been visualizing the data on assault deaths for a few years now; here's the latest: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2017/10/02/assault-dea... The comparison al
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Maybe, but "you can hack anything that you want with just TECO and DDT." http://redmartian.com/napster/Red_Martian_-_Deny_Authority_2...
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I often recommend this one: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures -- it has since been elaborated into a book. Bonus points for lots of sci-fi references.
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Good questions, but you ask as if there were no intellectuals out there discussing postcapitalist futures or social movements trying to build (or "prefigure") a postcapitalist world. Granted, they often aren't very visible, b
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A few others from the past decade which were covered by the country's few remaining serious labor journalists. Some were also written about in books [1] or documented in film [2]. 2008: Puerto Rico teachers strike. 2008: Stella D'
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It sounds like their model of operation is not that different from existing players in the U.S. market, such as Bolt Bus.
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In my experience sync works really well.
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Is your response prompted by something in this piece?
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We’re Sick of Racism, Literally(nytimes.com)
3 points by jboynyc 9y ago|2 comments
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Yes, of course, on the technical level it works. The legal and editorial side of it has not really been addressed. When somebody can publish arbitrary content on a Google domain, then Google pretty much has to start taking on an editorial r
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Apparently it's not an isolated case: https://mobile.twitter.com/ismh/status/925367292346683392 The Google Docs team claims they're on it: https://mobile.twitter.com/googledocs/statu
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What Delta Chat offers(delta.chat)
1 points by jboynyc 9y ago|1 comments
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Police Are the Problem, Not the Solution(indypendent.org)
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True, but "nones" (those with no religious affiliation) are on the rise, now accounting for a fifth of the U.S. population, and the overwhelming reason for that is a backlash against the religious right. Sources: Gallup, https:&#
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Kenneth Reitz's records library is similar (and also reliant on Sqlalchemy): https://github.com/kennethreitz/records
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Attracting contributors to a new project(blog.liw.fi)
2 points by jboynyc 9y ago|0 comments
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While not a full replacement, QuantumVim is better than nothing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quantumvim/
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Fidus Writer is a collaborative writing tool for academics built on ProseMirror. I've used it in the past but found citation management clunky. I might give it another try.
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Fidus Writer 3.3: Citation management integration(fiduswriter.org)
2 points by jboynyc 9y ago|1 comments
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I have used SNAP because it implements a role extraction algorithm for graphs. But in my experience networkx, python-igraph and graph-tool are nicer libraries to use for manipulating graphs and performing network analysis. Networkx is perha
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Have you installed and are you running the keybase client software? I start it on my system (Arch Linux) using the run_keybase command.
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Classification of the principal programming paradigms(info.ucl.ac.be)
96 points by jboynyc 9y ago|36 comments
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I made a test repository and proceeded to clone it using the keybase:// uri, expecting it not to work, but by some dark magic, it just did. Impressive!

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