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by mikk14 7y ago
> This is a weird concern to raise -- the idea that EF's data isn't representative because it's pulled from a sample of citizens extraordinarily interested in English would strongly imply that the true proficiency level in
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by mikk14 7y ago
It is pretty common under situation of physical effort not to feel pain, which makes some sort of evolutionary sense. Another anecdote: during last year's Tour de France, halfway climbing the Alpe d'Huez (~13.8km at avg 8% slope,
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by mikk14 7y ago
Actually inheritance has a lot of merits, even though they're mostly for societies with poor general education. Who do you want to be ruled by? A person without any education and experience, or somebody who has been nurtured surrounded
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Who Will Cluster the Cluster Makers?(michelecoscia.com)
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Deriving Networks Isn’t as Easy as It Looks(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 7y ago
Maybe that's exactly the point she was trying to make :-)
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iBorderCtrl? No(iborderctrl.no)
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iBorderCtrl Technical Framework(iborderctrl.eu)
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How to Sample Networks Using Social Media APIs(michelecoscia.com)
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State governments' internet footprints reveal what they do and how they differ(washington.edu)
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Using Web Crawling to Map US State Governments(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 8y ago
Well, frankly I don't think it's a disadvantage. It's difficult to move out from the equilibrium of countries mistrusting each other, but I think what you describe is actually an utopia. If we manage to destroy all tariffs an
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by mikk14 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand this rebuttal, do you want to expand a bit? Everyone getting 1% richer would not affect the Gini nor the absolute gap, or at least not as much as you imply. So I must be missing something. In any case, you are
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by mikk14 8y ago
In fact, there is a _negative_ correlation between Leave vote in Brexit and the proportion of immigrants living in the area: http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-areas-with-low-...
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by mikk14 8y ago
I think that the elephant chart can be misleading. A 100% growth of very little is still very little. I found this version [1] showing that, in absolute terms, the gaps are actually increasing. [1] https://patternsofmeaning.files
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by mikk14 8y ago
Well... China imports from Vietnam, 2003: $1.63 billion [0] China imports from Vietnam, 2016: $35.6 billion [1] Seems in the same ballpark area to me as the US numbers. Your theory that "Vietnam's present economic boom, is almost
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Birds of a Feather Scam Together(michelecoscia.com)
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Network Hierarchies and the Michelangelo Principle(michelecoscia.com)
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by mikk14 9y ago
Note: I am not vegan, nor I necessarily endorse the thinking behind this answer, but I'm trying to do a service to the discussion by reporting what I heard from a conversation with a vegan friend. I think the argument here is that most
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Hitting the Front Page Triggers an Evolutionary Arms Race(michelecoscia.com)
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Popularity Spikes Hurt Future Chances for Viral Propagation of Protomemes(cacm.acm.org)
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by mikk14 9y ago
The first rule to me reads this way: "If your design follows the other nine rules and is not innovative it means that there is an old design that already followed the other nine rules, therefore you should stick with the old one."
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by mikk14 9y ago
Granted. However, in the US I saw multiple times people getting at each other throats in arguing what a founding father really meant with this or this other sentence. So in an argument with a less charitable person, you might find yourself
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by mikk14 9y ago
While I share the sentiment, misquoting people who were saying almost the opposite of what you meant is not going to go very far. Franklin wasn't talking at all about what you were thinking he was talking. It was about an argument on t
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by mikk14 9y ago
Sure, but you're making my point against your original one. Copenhagen has a bit more than 400km of bike lanes [0], which is less than a fourth of what you reported NYC has. Which was my point: NYC should have much much more than 1,000
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by mikk14 9y ago
Looking just at the installed capacity isn't a great way, if you do not control for overall area. Better to compare the relative space dedicated to cars, trains and bikes. Couldn't find data for Stockholm, but here is a NY-Copenha
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by mikk14 9y ago
I think the mechanism might work like this (disclaimer, I'm not a doctor, I'm just making a theoretical guess): What can an antibiotic do? Kill bacteria that are not resistant to it. If a bacterium is resistant to it, it will be u
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by mikk14 9y ago
But I am not the consumer of Equifax. I have not paid them, nor asked them to do anything, nor indirectly getting a service from them [0]. The consumer is the bank or whoever paid for the information. So, on your logic being "the burde
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by mikk14 9y ago
> So you don't like the bureaux; well, nobody does really. But what is an alternative which allows lenders to compare applicants on a like-for-like basis with some degree of confidence? Ironically, even if I liked the bureaux (I don
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by mikk14 9y ago
Well, was China's state religion in 1000AD as corrupt and perverse as the Church in 1500? Was China's culture similar to European one when it comes to reacting to said pervasive societal injustice? If you cannot convincingly reply

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