dmarusic16

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by dmarusic16 7y ago
My point is that it’s precisely the wrong frame. And indeed, you make my point for me: we can do better than “hope”.
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by dmarusic16 7y ago
I’m certainly neither arguing for not looking at the past, nor for doing nothing. I’m suggesting that the universalist language of the founding, and then subsequently the brilliant rhetoric of Lincoln trying to knit together a country wreck
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by dmarusic16 7y ago
America is a country, not a project of universal human redemption. Countries do horrible things at times, yes. And these things should be studied. But it’s high time we abandon the gauzy religious rhetoric (“original sin”) when we talk abou
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by dmarusic16 7y ago
Polar looks great! Just the kind of service I’m looking for. (Hope an iPad/tablet version is in the offing alongside mobile.)
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by dmarusic16 8y ago
Maybe I was reading too far into your statement. But in general terms, politics (and conflict in general) stems from a struggle over the power to allocate scarce resources towards conflicting conceptions of what is “good” or “deserving”. Of
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by dmarusic16 8y ago
Are politics becoming outdated, in your opinion, too?
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by dmarusic16 9y ago
I can’t judge if the claptrap he quotes the geniuses spouting is effective, but the author’s screed sounds like a classic American snake oil salesman pitch.
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by dmarusic16 10y ago
One reason Europeans tend to misunderstand America is that they come from comparatively more homogeneous and therefore higher trust societies. America is overall better at integrating immigrants, but a solidarity deficit remains. Result: we
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by dmarusic16 10y ago
So much credit goes to Villeneuve, who elevates scripts that could easily go wrong into works of art. See Sicario if you haven't, for example—a script that would have been a pedestrian drug war film in lesser hands.
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by dmarusic16 10y ago
Also: Consider the source. Sputnik is unreliable and Kremlin-controlled, and whatever analysis they cook up is usually FUD.
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by dmarusic16 12y ago
Yeah, that's very much not what the World Bank is about.
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by dmarusic16 12y ago
Holy Christ, I had no idea this existed. Awesome.
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by dmarusic16 12y ago
Not true: Mike Bostock's stuff is all over the NYT website very frequently. He and Jeremy Ashkenas seem to be key players over there. Very inspiring work from both of them.
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by dmarusic16 12y ago
Works great with d3.js too. Couldn't've made this map of the early days of the Ukraine crisis[0] without Natural Earth. Also helpful to that end: the Global Administrative Areas[1] database. Finally, it would've been impossib
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by dmarusic16 12y ago
At the same time, D3 makes all sorts of smart decisions for you when you're making charts with it. I'm always pleasantly surprised, for example, by how D3 picks just the right number of tick marks on axes. Mike Bostock has taste a
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
This. I'll get properly excited when I see battery life for these things. I suspect there's an ugly surprise lurking there. Already that Moto looks ever so slightly too thick for me to not care. Now watch when it gets 4 hours of b
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
You couldn't be more wrong.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
My favorite thing about the demo video is how its completely bereft of ads. That probably won't be the case in practice—at least not for long.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
Except I think the author has this wrong: it won't be "Air" but "Pro", and will be thicker than the Air and more expensive.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
Capitalism in the sense you're using it isn't exactly a 'political philosophy'. Manufacture and trade is how human beings organize themselves and interact. If you're not taking that into account as you tackle the pr
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
I know it's sort of orthogonal to the point Schneier is making, but to my mind, many of his suppositions relating to Syria are off. I don't think doing preventative strikes even if we knew Assad was about to gas hundreds of civili
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
I absolutely loved the first edition, and I will be chipping in. Great work Marijn.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
That's right. Internet utopians need to come to terms with the idea that the world is and always will be a cruel jungle. There is emphatically no fix for this. All of human history is testament to this cold, sad fact.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
Nope. Newspapers working with leaked documents like this usually give governments a heads-up that they will be running such and such a story and they ask for input on what should or shouldn't get published. They then take that into con
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
It's why I'm liking the Stanford Algorithms course[1] being taught by Tim Roughgarden: it's all pseudocode. I thought about taking the Princeton one being taught by Bob Sedgewick (author of the book you're linking to), b
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
Looks like nice execution and everything, but guys, I have to ask, is Wordpress really that hard to set up? Copying Medium's theme shouldn't be THAT much work...
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
As a web designer, I despair of users upping the font size and screwing up the words-per-line. Which is why I like Safari's iOS-like pinch-zoom feature. I do wish all browsers would move in that direction and in the end disallow users
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
D3 is so very cool. And this is beautifully executed.
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
The Economist had a great article on this the other week: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582282-pension...
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by dmarusic16 13y ago
Malcolm Gladwell is a fool. Curtis is better, though far from flawless.

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