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by mikk14 11y ago
I understand and I hope you'll forgive my nitpicking. It's just that when I read the paragraph with the Sacco & Vanzetti reference, I got the vibe of something in the lines "look what else the Italians were doing" an
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by mikk14 11y ago
Isn't a bit bizarre from the author to point the finger to Italian anarchists for this unsolved case? I mean the "pair of Italian-American anarchists had been indicted five days earlier for bank robbery and murder" he mention
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Entropy Applied to Shopping(michelecoscia.com)
1 points by mikk14 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikk14 11y ago
True, but I was more focused on the fact that I earned that sum as a PhD, so one step below the seniority ladder. To earn exactly the same sum as a postdoc is just a crazy thing, and I'm glad I left to do my postdoc in the US.
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by mikk14 11y ago
Wow, where in Italy are you working? In Pisa I made more than that as a PhD student 6 years ago (1k per month).
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by mikk14 12y ago
I do not understand what is the mechanism that equates "more people voting" with "less money influence". You have done little to explain it, only using an argument from authority ("An important man said it, therefor
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by mikk14 12y ago
I got the idea from the top comment [1] (in a hindsight, I should actually have replied to it instead of starting the new comment thread). Particularly this part: > This backlash agains the 'old block' and what is called '
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by mikk14 12y ago
I don't have a good knowledge about Iceland situation, but I'm a bit negatively biased against these "protest parties". I'm from Italy and I can see what kind of horrible effect Grillo's party is having on the
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by mikk14 12y ago
I think you have a very idealistic and naive opinion about your generation (I'm 30 years old, I don't know if that makes it my generation too). Liquid democracy might increase vote turnout, which is good anyway, but in my opinion
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Yet Another Proof That the Italian Government Doesn’t Understand Research(michelecoscia.com)
1 points by mikk14 12y ago|0 comments
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Surprising Facts About Shortest Paths(michelecoscia.com)
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The retail market as a complex system(epjdatascience.com)
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by mikk14 12y ago
Using a biological metaphor to study memes is actually an ongoing debate. This strategy has been questioned by some researchers [1], while others (me included) found that it fits the observation quite nicely [2]. I haven't much more to
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by mikk14 12y ago
Exactly (I am the paper's author). While it is dangerous to identify the scientific term "meme" with those image macros, to study them has a lot of advantages. For example, it is very easy to quantify how popular they are, w
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Average Is Boring: How Similarity Kills a Meme's Success(nature.com)
25 points by mikk14 12y ago|6 comments