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by jimmytidey 8y ago
I've often noticed that I'm weirdly productive with a low level illness. It's as though my focus is improved .
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by jimmytidey 8y ago
If someone violates causality, who should be held responsible?
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by jimmytidey 8y ago
There is a similar debate around paying the £7.00 for NHS prescriptions. The vast majority of prescriptions go to elderly, young, pregnant or chronically ill people who don't pay.
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote. GE Moore's wife met Wittgenstein, at the time GE Moore and Wittgenstein were some of the most famous philosophers in the world. Wittgenstein asked what she did, and she said "I work at a jam factory&quot
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Can we have more publishing like Quanta magazine? It's just perfect in terms of reporting from the frontier, being easy to unsetstand, and not talking down to you.
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Alien Hand Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jimmytidey 9y ago|1 comments
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
If you put a human in charge of a judgement call, mostly there are mechanisms to monitor them, a requirement that they give reasons for their decisions, and mechanisms to appeal those judgements. We aren't used to having to do that wit
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
By having data about you facebook can infer stuff about other people who are on Facebook and serve better ads to them.
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
It's important to study the risks associated with alcohol, but it's also important to be pragmatic about how we reduce risk in our lives. Everything is risky, riding a horse is risky, going sailing is risky, doing a stressful job
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Man, people hate this comment!
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
"China obviously utilizes currency" - I didn't mean to imply that China doesn't have money, obviously it does, and it functions as a social scoring system there too. "do not keep security risk scores" - As oth
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What China can teach the west about digital democracy(opendemocracy.net)
1 points by jimmytidey 9y ago|1 comments
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Commentary on China's social credit system so often fails to note the many parallels in western societies. * The West has social credit scoring: money. A key principle of market economies is that accruing money is the just reward for c
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
A beautiful explanation.
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
If you want a non-partisan debate, which I do, I think you have to look past this kind of 'who was worse' debate. Even if there is an answer to 'who was worse', trying to reach a conclusion will just descend into meaning
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
1) Yes, there is a certain degree of hypocrisy in commentators lauding the sophistication of the Obama campaign machine and then complaining about the Republican strategy. At the same time, some of the most celebrated aspects of the Obama c
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Top work. Wonder what the legal implications for OP might be though.
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
How useful is the spatial analogy if the space in question defies all our spatial intuitions? I can see it has mathematical meaning, but isn't the whole post about having intuitive understanding of sentence space?
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Updating the concept of free speech for the digital era(medium.com)
1 points by jimmytidey 9y ago|1 comments
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2017: Don't Take It Personally(medium.com)
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
*careers
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Yep, this is a classic thought experiment that is designed to show you how fantastic markets are at delivering human happiness. The problem is that the same could be said about Russians in 1988 after 70 years of communism. It also ignores t
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
I think the cookie warnings might do something to get the idea of a cookie in consumer's minds. I also don't think you can think of developer time like that. Imagine how many caterers have gone into making websites work on IE6. St
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Three ways to design social networks that make our lives better(medium.com)
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Social network data: Twitter vs. FB vs. Google vs. everyone else(towardsdatascience.com)
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Social network data: Twitter vs. FB vs. Google vs. everyone else(medium.com)
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Technology shapes our social connections. Designers need to take responsibility(medium.com)
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
Have you got a reference for this
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
This is an untested assumption if ever I saw one.
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by jimmytidey 9y ago
I'm going to get an Irish passport with a view to it possibly being relevant for future academic funding or work. (My grandmother was born in Ireland)

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