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Choosing to stay out of the community(rachelbythebay.com)
242 points by pulisse 8y ago|198 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
The former. I wasn't suggesting that mu4e should be converted right away to use this feature, but more concerned that an unqualified statement that long-running IO must block in Emacs would create the wrong impression.
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by pulisse 8y ago
> You need to do the indexing with a timer in Emacs, and because Emacs is single-threaded this blocks things / slows down the UI. It's worth noting that multithreading recently landed in Emacs master, so it's now possible
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by pulisse 8y ago
> If I had no other chance but to live near such criminals, I would try to suicide-bomb them Your confidence that you'd sacrifice yourself heroically in circumstances it's utterly certain you'll never find yourself in is a
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by pulisse 8y ago
Out of curiosity I checked out the "New Tartans" page. The most recent item is: https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=12260 which, sadly, seems to have been registered on behalf of a white supremaci
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Gig Economy Drivers Are Making Half What They Did in 2013(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by pulisse 8y ago|0 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
Abstract: > We investigate the relationship between the opening of a city’s subway network and its air quality. We find that particulate concentrations drop by 4% in a 10km radius disk surrounding a city center following a subway system
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Subways and Urban Air Pollution [pdf](nicolasgendroncarrier.com)
1 points by pulisse 8y ago|1 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
> makes it easy to identify the perps as state actors Which is what makes it useful as an intimidation tactic.
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To Serve and Collect(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by pulisse 8y ago|0 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
Amie Wilkinson has also released a statement: https://math.uchicago.edu/~wilkinso/Statement.html .
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Statement Regarding the Accusations of Ted Hill(math.uchicago.edu)
1 points by pulisse 8y ago|1 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
Exactly. No one here, least of all Tufekci, is claiming that YouTube has deliberately engineered their recommendation system to favor extreme content. The argument is that it's an unintended consequence of how the YouTube recommender
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Sperm Count Zero(gq.com)
3 points by pulisse 8y ago|0 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
There's nothing ethically dubious at all about what the reporter did. The NYU discussion you link to begins: > On the record, on background, not for attribution and off the record : These are prearranged agreements between a repor
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How Do Campaign Spending Limits Affect Electoral Competition?(dropbox.com)
2 points by pulisse 8y ago|1 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
> Can you explain the thought process with regards to why it's okay for you to receive compensation for your efforts, but not the OSS developer who invested significantly more time (nine years, in the case of Redis) in creating the
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by pulisse 8y ago
It's true (pretty much by definition) that rhetorical power is a form of power. But it's a further, cynical step to conclude that if someone acts in a way that confers rhetorical authority, they must be doing so just for the sak
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by pulisse 8y ago
It was invented and popularized at a hotel in Tijuana.
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Border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (2017)(brilliantmaps.com)
105 points by pulisse 8y ago|70 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
> In the 90s app-centric view of the world this is a non-issue, because following other people is the client’s job, for better or worse. Your computer crashes, you lose who you were following. If you want to publish who you’re following
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by pulisse 8y ago
It's illegal in Colorado for a business to refuse service to someone because of their sexual orientation. That's the law under which the state tried to penalize the baker. Alex Jones violated Twitter's ToS by, among other th
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Documents Reveal Successful Cyberattack in California Congressional Race(rollingstone.com)
2 points by pulisse 8y ago|0 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
The command should process stdin in streaming fashion rather than slurping it all at once: code = ARGV[0] STDIN.each_line do |l| puts l.instance_eval(code) STDOUT.flush end
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by pulisse 8y ago
> Middle managers kept cutting costs at the expense of quality The article describes that cost-cutting as mandated by the company's president, Robert Uihlein.
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by pulisse 8y ago
The issue isn't the mere existence of namespacing or scoping. It's about having explicit and consistent models for how these things work. Container frameworks try very hard to introduce a single boundary that applies to all thos
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by pulisse 8y ago
> There are certainly some ways in which the translation attempts to emphasize certain theological/christological viewpoints, but the usage of "thou" is not one of them. It wasn't theologically neutral, though. To ad
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by pulisse 8y ago
> To have any effect in modern elections you'd need to carry out an extensive system of vote buying, which is illegal But this isn't a new feature of politics. It was equally true during, e.g., the period when Tammany Hall con
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by pulisse 8y ago
Why are you skeptical of the voting reform activist's reasoning? Secret balloting was introduced in the UK and the US in the latter half of the 19th century precisely because political machines abused non-secret balloting (systems in
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Manners in Early Modern England(amp.theguardian.com)
80 points by pulisse 8y ago|33 comments

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