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by nickloewen 7y ago
The concern as I understand it is not that a journalist would just straight-up defend a conspiracy theory. Rather, the concern is that if you give any airtime to conspiracy theorists, even in the form of a debate, some viewers/readers
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by nickloewen 7y ago
It seems to me that #5 (two sides) needs more nuance. It is often the case, as you point out, that one side is just wrong. But even then it is worth considering why they are wrong, and whether that analysis should be included in the story.
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Indeed, sometimes reporting “just the facts” is more likely to lead people to the wrong conclusion than the right one. (For example, I think it would be difficult to come to an accurate understanding of social inequality if one was only eve
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by nickloewen 7y ago
You might be interested in Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes, who tries to answer a related question: how do we do science in a 'post-truth' period, where the tactics of postmodern critique are being taken up by climate change
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by nickloewen 7y ago
If you copy-paste from the notes app, it tends to do a reasonable job transforming it’s formatting into a plain-text representation.(Or rich-text, if you paste into an app that supports it, like Pages or Mail.) There are a few apps around t
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Episodes which I think will stick with me, because they helped me to better understand the motivations and histories behind political perspectives that I disagree with: - "Citations Needed" ep. 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecu
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by nickloewen 7y ago
I recently rode in a car which, when started, lit up the dashboard display with the message “Correct tire pressure.” That took a moment to decipher, too. (Is the pressure correct, or am I supposed to correct it? And if you have sensors in a
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Yes, this is a good clarification!
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by nickloewen 7y ago
When you put parentheses around an atom, lisp sees that as a function call. Say `x` is a function which adds one to a number. Say `y` is an atom which is not a function—perhaps a list: `(list 1 2 3)`. If you write just `x`, no parens, you
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by nickloewen 7y ago
> in terms of software UX, I would say plain text should be used as a starting point while adding interactive elements (e.g., buttons) and layouts only as necessary. By layouts I mean visual separation of categorized information via whit
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by nickloewen 7y ago
It’s not comprehensive but I really like betterexplained.com. Everything is available online for free (I think) but there are print books and ebooks available now too. I am also finding desmos.com (and their app) helpful for getting insight
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by nickloewen 7y ago
I didn't know other languages did this! In English "quicksand" seems to follow the same pattern.
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I think these two resources are excellent: 1. Simon Peyton Jones, How to Write a Great Research Paper https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/wr... 2. Larry McEnerney’s writing workshop htt
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by nickloewen 7y ago
To clarify, because I wanted to know the details: This is coming from the "NYC Commission on Human Rights Legal Enforcement Guidance on Discrimination on the Basis of Immigration Status and National Origin." The relevant text is:
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this—I had forgotten about it! That gist is copied from this page on Victor's site: http://worrydream.com/#!/Links It was discussed on HN in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Thanks for the reference. But as far as I can tell, this didn’t pass. And I disagree with your conclusion—showing that people may seek to abuse anti hate speech legislation isn’t sufficient to prove, I don’t think, that the legislation wil
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by nickloewen 7y ago
One option, I think, is to accept that cables and tubes will be stepped on, and then attempt to mitigate pull-outs and pinches. (Which, admittedly, is close to the approach you already have.) Longer cables and tubes would help diminish pull
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by nickloewen 7y ago
I agree with you, but perhaps you are reading “tight” slightly differently than the way the original poster intended it? To me, ANSI C is “tight” in the sense that it is made up of a small set of features, which can be used together to get
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by nickloewen 7y ago
I think: Instagram doesn’t allow links in image comments/captions, but does allow a link on your bio/profile page. So people end up sharing links by setting their profile link, and then commenting “link in bio.” So the pitch here
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by nickloewen 7y ago
That’s fair, I don’t know for sure (hence “I hope...”). I think shininess is fairly likely, because they are collaborating with Teenage Engineering, who have a reputation for making nice things like the OP-1. Homebrew is much more questiona
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by nickloewen 7y ago
Those all appear to either emulate other consoles, or come with games built-in, though. This seems to be closer to the MakeCode consoles discussed elsewhere in these comments, since it sounds like it will allow you to make your own games fo
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by nickloewen 7y ago
I know only some of Foucault’s work, and don’t know much of him as an essayist. Nevertheless, if you are looking for something brief but significant, I would recommend “What is an author?” I think it gives a sense of the sort of theoretical
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by nickloewen 8y ago
This has some very appealing aspects—I'm particularly intrigued by the stand design—but I'm mystified by the idea that a lamp designed to last six decades apparently requires an app to operate many of it's key features. Sixty
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by nickloewen 8y ago
I teach stop motion classes for kids. Several of my students say they use the iPad version of iMovie and they seem happy with it. For stop motion animation, there is an app called just “stop motion” which is pretty good. It is free, but the
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by nickloewen 8y ago
This is neat. I think it would be more helpful as a learning tool if it showed the difference between user input and the goal. The triangle indicator communicates what you should have done differently, but it doesn't help to visualize
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This is different though, because of the “except with knowledge of said engineer” line. This code is trying to prevent clients from, for example, getting a “second opinion” on a project if they are unhappy that the first engineer deemed it
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by nickloewen 8y ago
Perhaps Kakoune? It's discussed here: http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html#_improving_o...
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by nickloewen 8y ago
Wonderful. Nintendo also planned a knitting machine peripheral for the NES, but unfortunately it never released: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/08/31/nintendo-almost-made-a...
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by nickloewen 8y ago
I’m not sure about this. As an Adobe customer, the software I use has become more “affordable” because it is easier for me to turn up $45 a month for software than the $X000 that it would cost up front. On the other hand, I am paying for so
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by nickloewen 9y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I have been interested for a while in the idea that index cards, as analogue forms of cataloguing and computation, have been used in a number of ways that are still relevant to our new designs. It’s great to have

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