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by noir-york 8y ago
I'd love to get a copy of this game. Google turned up nothing.
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by noir-york 8y ago
I get the impression that Bistro has a lot of thought put into it, but after quick skim through the docs and examples I still am not sure what Bistro is except "Like Kafka streams but different". The example code is spread under c
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Daimler Trucks lowers expectations on self-driving tech(ft.com)
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Investor: Facebook dismissed my concerns because I am ‘not nice’(ft.com)
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by noir-york 8y ago
Berlin's Four Essays on liberty remains one of my most treasured moments (and books) in my intellectual journey. Lucid and intelligent writing, with none of the obscurantism. Of course, I have all Berlin's books. A recent book and
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by noir-york 8y ago
For more check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s where there is an explanation of how original pronunciation was rediscovered.
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by noir-york 8y ago
So where is all the money going? The UK has a (diminshed) NHS and spends less as a % of GDP. I suspect that a big part of it is that money is being wasted (the Fed.Gov cannot negotiate drug prices!), and not reaching the intended beneficiar
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by noir-york 8y ago
It used to, and then Schröder passed the Hartz reforms and the German welfare state has never been the same since.
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by noir-york 8y ago
> The hundred billion dollar question is how do you scale it? Its been done. Its called a funded welfare state. > Show me a school model that's succeeding with the most at risk subdemographic within disadvantaged communities and
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by noir-york 8y ago
Fantastic video! Seeing centuries of European history flash by reminds me of the rich history - whether you count it in blood, culture or intellectual progress - of the part of the world that I happen to live in, and rather proud of it. Its
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by noir-york 8y ago
Great article! Thanks for posting.
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'77% of Americans believe major news outlets report falsehoods'(ft.com)
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Swiss Police Investigate Fatal Crash, Fire Involving Tesla(nytimes.com)
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by noir-york 8y ago
Yep, Augustus didn't like sharing power :D He must have felt guilty about it though because the Empire post-republic tried to keep up the appearance of Rome as Republic, if not in substance.
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by noir-york 8y ago
The UK is what is called an aristocratic republic* as it retains the Roman Republic's setup: - Sovereign / House of Lords (Senate) / Lower house. The US Founding Fathers copied England, and Rome's model but replaced the
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by noir-york 8y ago
Indeed, which is why modern democracies, or at least Western ones, don't describe themselves as democracies (except only as shorthand), but republican liberal* democracies. * liberal here meaning political liberal (JS Mill liberalism)
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by noir-york 8y ago
Polanyi as a thinker isn't frankly particularly imaginative or interesting: for someone who read British economic history, it appears he missed Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments, political liberalism, and the rise of a parliamentary l
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by noir-york 8y ago
Is capitalism a threat to authoritarianism? The Chinese Communist Party certainly was worried that capitalism would pose a threat. Turns out the Party is doing just fine. "capitalism", i.e., a market-based economy is flexible and
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by noir-york 8y ago
> Excel is an (eghem) excellent example of this concept in software Excel is indeed an excellent example, and excellent software. On a related note, pivot tables must be the next best invention after the spreadsheet itself.
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by noir-york 8y ago
> creates its own aggregated newsfeed/filter I am trying to build this very thing but Facebook's recent privacy issues have caused it to over react and I keep getting the below error: "Access to this data is temporarily di
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by noir-york 8y ago
Well written article with excellent points. "community" is another instance of using language to frame or spin an issue, with the consequent diluting of what a real community is. "Community is the spoonful of sugar that makes
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by noir-york 8y ago
Why? The countries I am familiar with (in Europe) manage to provide most social services through the government agencies just fine. When there is a scew up, its usually when the provision has been out-sourced (at great cost).
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by noir-york 8y ago
> What incentive would there then be to offer these services? Justice. The state should be providing these services to low-income people itself. Low-income people are not 'customers' - they are citizens and any money that is di
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by noir-york 8y ago
Propel is a feature, a digital skin over Conduent's data. If Propel really wanted to help poor people, it would help them go out to vote for candidates who want to fund social welfare and a higher minimum wage. You would be forgiven fo
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by noir-york 9y ago
> How about freedom of association and freedom to contract How free are you when one of the parties is naive (in the context of the contract) and has little power, and the other party has the interest, the means and the power to force an
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by noir-york 9y ago
If its at all possible, and if so, has someone built such an SBC? Alternatively, is there a practical way to attach external DDRAM to an existing 64-bit SBC, perhaps using the GPIO pins? I have zero electronics knowledge so forgive my quest
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by noir-york 9y ago
Maybe someone can help: is it possible to build an SBC can boot Linux and has just a CPU, gig ethernet and gobs of RAM (at least 8gb)? Don't need display port, GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPIO pins, etc - just a CPU + lots of RAM + an ethern
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Start-up Republic: can Iran’s booming tech sector thrive?(ft.com)
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by noir-york 9y ago
I think you're on to something. A thought which came to mind would be for a country to levy an access charge (think of the BBC license fee) to access social networks based on usage. The money would then be used to clean up the negative
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by noir-york 9y ago
The web reduces the cost of information transfer to pretty much zero so anyone can publish, with no gatekeepers (of old). Scale matters. Information inequality was inevitable. Free trade led to growing concentrations of economic power and r

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