davekinkead

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by davekinkead 3y ago
Experienced Rails & JS full stack dev looking for freelance/contract/consulting opportunities. Location: French Alps Remote: Only - can travel anywhere in Europe for quarterly team meetups Willing to relocate: no Tec
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by davekinkead 9y ago
While I think programming can be a good way to teach general thinking skills like perspective, clarity, precision, and abstraction, I'm dubious about the claim that it is the best way to do so (§2.1). Perspective - does learning multip
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by davekinkead 10y ago
The AEC manages the federal election roll. Enrolling is technically compulsory for all citizens but only seems to be enforceable once you are on the roll. Failure to get your named crossed of a a voting booth (voting isn't compulsory
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by davekinkead 10y ago
Here are a few justifications of democracy and how increasing voter turnout would affect them: 1) Epistemic (democracy is good because it makes the correct choices). Increasing voter turnout doesn't do much because 10,000 randomly sele
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by davekinkead 10y ago
Hi Debra - (longish) question about the white labelling aspect of vote.org: It seems like the implied value of vote.org is that increasing voter turnout can make democracy 'better' by making it more representative. This can only h
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by davekinkead 10y ago
To address your first question, the actual quote is: > Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democrac
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by davekinkead 10y ago
What ever happened to the 7 habits? http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/7-habits-of-highly-succes...
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by davekinkead 11y ago
> Just two of the [24] research groups produced a significant, positive effect If only they had used green jelly beans instead [^1]... This is not limited to social psychology. Scientific publishing has a strong bias towards positive re
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by davekinkead 12y ago
Beautiful UI. Schelling's models of segregation is a great example of how simulation and data-vis can create insights in the humanities & social sciences. I made a similar (though much less beautiful) simulation for a workshop in
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by davekinkead 13y ago
> Civil law by contrast exists to right wrongs between private parties ie suing for compensation Civil law exists for exactly this reason, and has for hundreds of years. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(co
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by davekinkead 13y ago
Perhaps this is not the best example given that Spain isn't from a common law tradition but I find the encroachment of criminal penalties for what are essentially civil matters very disturbing. Criminal law exists to sanction actions t
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by davekinkead 13y ago
"In 2012, Brown similarly pored over millions of emails hacked by Anonymous from the private intelligence company Stratfor. It was during his work on the Stratfor hack that Brown committed his most serious offence, according to US pros
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by davekinkead 13y ago
Citizen policy juries, selected by random sampling of the electorate, with access to experts making public recommendations on policy. Even if they don't have formal authority to legislate or execute policy, politicians enacting laws in
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by davekinkead 13y ago
The real value of an MBA is the signalling it provides future employers - that you are sufficiently smart, diligent & focused to get into a B school, and prepared to do long & arduous hours for the company in order to get ahead. The
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by davekinkead 13y ago
But how can they all be paid 'above market'? Is that like 90% of drivers being above average?
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by davekinkead 13y ago
Reminds me of a good talk by Alain de Botton highlighting the nasty side of believing we live in a meritocracy whilst ignoring the role of chance. http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_ph...
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Rights are the correlative of duties and obligations. If people have a duty not to X, then who ever that duty is owed to now has a right to X. As a being capable of moral reflection, I think I have a duty not to inflict, or support the inf
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Nice to see an explanation video that isn't just stick figures and animation. It was really slick - informative, humorous, and on brand (love that your socks match your brand's colour). Agree that dropbox for wi-fi is confusing. Why not som
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Should also say - OSX10.7 + FF19
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Bug: ctrl-a (or ctrl-anything) results in the non-ctlr key stuck in the text field with no way to delete it
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by davekinkead 14y ago
this ^ 100 I started my PhD last year and was shocked at how intentionally broken academic e-books are. A few examples of daily experiences that send me into fits of frustrated rage and incredulity. - ebook substitute for a text that only
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by davekinkead 14y ago
A nice update to a very old meme. I didn't realise that the original 'you have two cows' was from 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows And after the NZ reference, I'm wondering if the author of this one was an Aussie.
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Nice. After dragging a file to the drop board, I couldn't remove it (FF18 OSX10.7). It would be nice if I could drag off as loading the wrong file seems to require a page refresh to undo.
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by davekinkead 14y ago
I'd argue that the author got the description right while getting the reason wrong. First up a confession. I'm a cycling tragic who'd like nothing more to see the vast majority of urban transportation space allocated to walking, cycling and
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Looks to me like you've now got a fantastic portfolio page. "Our creative & design is so good, its copied by a number of digital agencies and businesses including Dapatical Global, ..." Perhaps even parody testimonials are in order. "Ou
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by davekinkead 14y ago
> How is disproportionate representation fair? Disproportionate representation is fair (only) if the criteria of discrimination is justifiable. An obtuse example: Gifted & hardworking athletes are disproportionally over-represented
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Compare these two searches from a mathematics & CS related area of philosophy: http://scholr.ly/results/?q=bayesian+epistemology&x=0&#3... http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=bayesian+epistemology... Scholrly omits big names
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Here's some feedback from 5 mins of use. (My field is philosophy) Searching for paper title 'Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives' doesn't return the paper or author. Searching for keywords 'Democratic Authority' returns unrela
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by davekinkead 14y ago
As a philosophical term of art, 'Begging the question' is a logical fallacy whereby the conclusion of an argument is just the restatement of the premise(s). Commonly however, it is used to mean 'raises or leads the question'. Whether the co
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by davekinkead 14y ago
Except in the real world. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland... But the US government seems to be doing a pretty good job of just that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CBO_-_Revenues_and_Outlays...

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