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by knowtheory 11y ago
That's a hard thing to disentangle, because investigative reporting isn't just done by people with "investigative reporter" in their titles. If you want a random waypoint Propublica's staff costs for 2011 were aroun
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by knowtheory 11y ago
better e-ink devices won't fix the problem that the internet has completely changed the advertising market and how brands reach consumers. It's hard to see what newspapers could do to get the same returns per unit sold or page vie
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by knowtheory 11y ago
Shirky's post in 2009 was one of those great clarion calls. Failure is always an option (and not the kind you learn from and pivot off of). Noting that newspapers aren't necessary (but journalism is) is great, but the problem is
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U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades(usatoday.com)
20 points by knowtheory 12y ago|1 comments
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Except this is a post about his book and his teaching? But here we are dedicating all this time to rehashing all this stuff that happened years ago with people who obviously weren't there at the time.
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by knowtheory 12y ago
It does make a difference because Jenn's rise to general attention has been through her satirical and artistic work (as well as the fact that she's an awesome developer who worked at the NBA and now works for Bocoup). The context
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by knowtheory 12y ago
re [1]: This is not an accurate reflection of the events and circumstances at the time. The "Zed's so fucking awesome" follows the Rails is a Ghetto post, and the start of acrimony between Zed and other members of the Rails c
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Keep on hatin'. Zed's just going to keep writing books that help people, and your impression of him will merely drown beneath the tides of people who benefit from all the work he's put into FOSS & teaching others. I don&
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by knowtheory 12y ago
If discussing gender is a threatening proposition to you, your problem is likely not that gender exists. Also, you've admitted that gender matters since by general population statistics 50+% of your users aren't men? So like... s
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Yes there are many web developer who rely on rubygems, but it was written and continues to be maintained today by people who are (not perfect) but good developers who like Aaron, find shit like this and fix it. If you actually cared, you&#x
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Yep, and the location identification is pretty broken too. I live in Columbia Missouri (MO) and the rankings for "Columbia" include folks from Columbia Maryland (MD) and Columbia South Carolina (SC). So even if people want to use
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Instagram data shows Lawmaker with lavish decor billed private planes, concerts(bigstory.ap.org)
2 points by knowtheory 12y ago|0 comments
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Who Congress Follows on Twitter Data(gist.github.com)
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Surely we can agree that discrimination is not only about intent. And, again, if you make someone else feel bad is it the right thing to do to go "oh, well i didn't mean to make you feel bad, so you shouldn't feel that way.&q
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Okay, it's great that you've got concerns about how guys feel, but shouldn't we equally consider how women in the field feel too? I had female friends with whom i took CS classes who all had stories about guys who would do su
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Hopefully you can understand that intent isn't everything? Being considerate of others isn't just saying "pshht i didn't mean anything by it!" it's actually thinking about how other people might react in the ci
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At Chipotle, How Many Calories Do People Really Eat?(nytimes.com)
53 points by knowtheory 12y ago|85 comments
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Why would this necessarily be true? Several authors have written about algorithmically generated & operated companies or entities (Charlie Stross, the Ghost in the Shell) either as litigation shields or entities which outlived their own
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by knowtheory 12y ago
On the flip side, anyone who's in the social sciences can tell you that self-reporting is a terrible gauge.
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The JRuby Blog: A Truffle/Graal High Performance Back End for JRuby(blog.jruby.org)
2 points by knowtheory 12y ago|0 comments
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Re [1], you will want the current revision of the proposed decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests... (which is the same confusion i tripped across, because wikipedia's arbitrat
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by knowtheory 12y ago
I read Bernstein's original post a couple days ago, and followed up by reading the wikipedia arbitration. The real crux of the problem is that there's a mismatch between the broad scope of what Wikipedia's rules try to preven
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We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism(medium.com)
15 points by knowtheory 12y ago|1 comments
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A Pirate’s Booty – The Marshall Project(themarshallproject.org)
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Feds kept separate phone record database on U.S. calls(usatoday.com)
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Steve Rich posted all the documents on DocumentCloud and all the data on Github too. The post about the documents (which you can search) and the data: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015&#x
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Amazon and online retail are actually a huge sociological problem in this context. If you can just order manga you like, and form bonds w/ online communities of folks w/ similar tastes on tumblr or twitter or wherever, what'
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by knowtheory 12y ago
Github should warn you how many other repositories are named "PANDA" when you try to name a repository that. (edit: looks like this PANDA has been around since 2012, so i guess it's one of the earlier ones)
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by knowtheory 12y ago
You can order people to do all manner of things, but i think you'd be much harder pressed to enforce such a stricture. You're not going to shut down someone's corneal reflex obviously: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by knowtheory 12y ago
if you read up on foldit they take a hybrid strategy, for proteins that are simpler, they are using automated techniques. For proteins that are more complicated and harder to solve where folding requires satisfying a variety of conflicting

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