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by mlinksva 9y ago
> Participants indicated who they desired to win, and who they believed would win, the election. Would be more interesting if conducted around desires and beliefs about deeper outcomes than who wins an election.
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by mlinksva 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for posting this. I take some care to plant 'bee friendly' stuff but have no interest in beekeeping and have never bothered to look up fostering non-honeybees. Now I will do this after reading your comment htt
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by mlinksva 9y ago
For other reasons, a large % of trucking should be de-subsidized and replaced with rail http://cityobservatory.org/the-real-welfare-cadillacs-have-1... What are working conditions of truckers relative to railroad workers?
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by mlinksva 10y ago
There's a link in the next paragraph to http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2010/dirty-... which tells more of the story. Claim is that rule change allowed hospitals to join group purchasing orga
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by mlinksva 10y ago
> So the best answer seems to be: don't write content that works specifically for screen readers, write content that works well for everyone. Use correct punctuation, spelling and grammar, use standard conventions for acronyms and a
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Sadly no mention of preinstalled hardware, one of the top requests in Canonical thread mentioned.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
"The Retreat to Commitment" by W.W. Bartley III. Not what the book is about, but in addition to being a thrilling read, it eventually helped me deal with the shortcomings of the world and culture I find myself in, and my own.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
It's not super clear what if any license is offered for code and data, eg from http://distill.pub/2016/misread-tsne/ > Diagrams and text are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 2.0, unless no
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by mlinksva 10y ago
One of the four studies asked a panel to evaluate pro-, anti-, and mixed essays about religion. Maybe this was what interested Templeton. A bit could be spun as an attempt to make religion acceptable, assuming the default that it is instead
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by mlinksva 10y ago
It is a captive venue news article / press release _about_ a paper at DOI: 10.1177/0146167217697695. I've only skimmed so far, but seems interesting and meaningful. What fraction of papers can be directly applied to your life
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by mlinksva 10y ago
First I'd heard of Entroware. They seem to sell several more https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops and only ship to UK, IE, DE, FR, IT, ES (according to their site footer). How long have they been shipping Linux
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Many tech companies are members of CCIA and should demand it stop advocating for Intuit's civilization-destroying agenda. It's been one of their issues for a long time eg http://www.ccianet.org/2011/09/ir
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Less so than existing mechanisms for paying for roads http://www.its.ucla.edu/infographic-road-pricing/ Added: that's exactly what the article links to, oops. I read the article in reader mode (because it blocks a
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by mlinksva 10y ago
The post doesn't say anything about ongoing community development, I guess because there is basically none? Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but I see very little activity in https://github.com/mozilla-b2
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by mlinksva 10y ago
> To him, Albi’s fate was a cultural misfortune. City leaders had poured money into a high-concept modernistic new culture center at the town’s edge. And the shopping mall had been built. Large grocery chains, called hypermarkets, had al
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by mlinksva 10y ago
You're probably thinking of PLOS Biology. This is in PLOS ONE, which is multidisciplinary.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Is a more general application of this idea a 'vacation mode' -- a way to enforce an intentional limited vacation from social media?
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Rather than sugarcoating and redeeming, renaming is admitting that the past is irredeemable.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Renaming doesn't erase history, it makes history. The previous name and the renaming are part of the history of the named subject.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
"Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years" at incredible expense. That sounds crazy, but the article claims it has benefits including keeping up with product requirements, eliminating complexity, and transferring own
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Here's the paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622279/
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I'm 100% certain Software Freedom Conservancy would not require a license change.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Send the last three paragraphs of the article to your politicians. Excerpt: > Congress should instead reward manufacturers that bring a targeted, highly innovative antibiotic to market with a substantial financial prize; in exchange, man
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by mlinksva 10y ago
It is about world domination, or rather liberation. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-preliminary-analysis-o... : > projects of strategic importance to the goal of freedom for _all computer users_.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Battling for licenses is a symptom of too little and small-thinking politics, not too much. Fortunately they included https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/free-softwar... which is a step toward engaging
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I worked through many of these when discussed here 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022953 ... really enjoyable, great refresher, and learned some things I never knew before.
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by mlinksva 10y ago
I've only skimmed, but it seems the redistributive implications are that people who think they are close to but above last place are less likely to support redistribution which could raise the level of those in last place. They don&#x2
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Non-paywalled copy http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/The%20Quarter...
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Another reason is addiction. We have an industry set up to collect rents from creating the most addictive entertainment they can. Some other largely overlapping lists of games whose creators collect no rents: http://freegamedev.n
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by mlinksva 10y ago
Another GIMP developer has been looking for funding at Patreon/Tipee for their dev work mixed with work on an animated film, sidebar of https://girinstud.io/news/2016/09/dont-be-a-stranger-to-gimp... for

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