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by essayist 4mo ago
Way before bots/LLM, I disciplined myself (most of the time) to write email with "in brief" at the top, followed by "Details". "In brief: Can you bring a dozen brownies to the noon lunch tomorrow? Details: Dess
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by essayist 3y ago
It's 1996 or so. The web is new. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) at the US Department of Transportation collects ontime arrival data for all the major airlines, by flight. It publishes some summary reports, but what peopl
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by essayist 4y ago
Kelly writes: The truth is that cultivating a thousand true fans is time consuming, sometimes nerve racking, and not for everyone. Done well (and why not do it well?) it can become another full-time job. At best it will be a consuming a
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by essayist 5y ago
The Washington Post says the police killed 413 unarmed people from 1/1/2015 through 7/16/2021, about 63/year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
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by essayist 6y ago
Kids, a story from the Old Days, c.1981. DRI (since absorbed into McGraw Hill) had EPS, an advanced economic/financial analysis scripting language, provided via timesharing (mainframes on the East Coast of the USA). I was a customer su
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by essayist 6y ago
I can choose to see (or not) that the prisoner being walked down the street is shackled. And maybe there are some good reasons for choosing not to see. But it seems the beginning of sanity for that prisoner, herself, to see her chains.
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by essayist 6y ago
I'm old enough to have been a timesharing programmer (when a 32k->64k working memory increase seemed like limitless abundance). The company I worked for offered very expensive timesharing by the hour. Clients used an "Englishy&
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by essayist 6y ago
I'll recommend Imago training [1] to any and all couples. It's reflective listening on steroids and was transformational for us. The basic process starts w/reflective listening, then goes deeper to get at the underlying wound
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by essayist 6y ago
My mother's favorite actor, singing a song whose German lyrics include "a ship isn't designed just to lie in the harbor; it needs to sail out to the open sea", and other more scandalous metaphors. https://www.
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by essayist 6y ago
If I created a Zoom meeting with the trainees, and shared my screen and computer audio running my training video, would I have the same experience? Phrased in terms of Zoom since I've become oh so familiar with it these past few months
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by essayist 7y ago
How did the Chinese approach increase "long term risks of reinfection"?
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by essayist 7y ago
This is part of the reason that it can take so long to comprehend a genuinely innovative new technology: it doesn't win the game that's being played -- it plays a different game entirely. Yes! Another way to say this: would-be i
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by essayist 7y ago
Peter Senge brought your first point to life for me: The Wright brothers proved that powered flight was possible, but the McDonnel Douglas DC3, introduced in 1935, ushered in the era of commercial air travel. The DC3 was the first plane th
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by essayist 7y ago
The scissor effect can't apply to an individual. And I suppose if most everyone falls on one side of the question, even with lots of passion, there's no scissor. But I'm arguing (SSC may not be) that effective scissor stateme
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by essayist 7y ago
I'm with you. We see in this discussion that it's difficult even to raise some potential scissors as examples without a lot of commenters falling into them. SSC's point is not "X is a near-universal scissor", it&#x2
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by essayist 7y ago
"Scissors just are." I think this is profound. I wrote a few minutes ago that scissors generate passion and tunnel vision, and you've stated that more elegantly. If you fallen into a scissor, shades of grey don't matter.
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by essayist 7y ago
Yes, and a lot of commenters are falling into the scissor, metaphorically, arguing that your analogy to the Dreyfuss case is wrong because, damn it, Dreyfuss was {innocent, guilty}. I think that's in part because, if you're societ
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by essayist 7y ago
I worked on a site supporting voter calls in 2004. There was no sanity checking of the usernames people proposed, so we had gems like leading spaces and multiple embedded spaces in the usernames. I figured some people signed up and then wer
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by essayist 7y ago
FAA and NTSB have had to deal with this for decades. Aviation safety has steadily improved, because they were, generally, forward-looking. Not so much "who do we blame?" but "what do we do to avoid this in the future?"
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by essayist 7y ago
Kevin Drum has tracked this in detail. He wrote this in 2018: "It’s important to emphasize that the lead-crime hypothesis doesn’t claim that lead is solely responsible for crime. It primarily explains only one thing: the huge rise in c
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by essayist 8y ago
If you're in/near Washington, DC, come to my wife's class. Free to students, paid for by DC government: http://watercolordc.com/
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by essayist 8y ago
In the 1980's, the CTO I worked for (indirectly) met with me a couple of times on the high priority project I was leading. The second time, as I left his office, I saw the cover of an IT magazine, featuring the approach (maybe OO progr
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by essayist 8y ago
My mother came to live with us in the early stages of dementia. She had a laptop and was competent browsing the web, so she stumbled onto a pay-for-your-horoscope site, but fumbled with the credit card payment process. I ended up blackholin
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Journalism as a Technology Service(niemanlab.org)
4 points by essayist 8y ago|0 comments
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by essayist 8y ago
Cool. Minibug- as you get to the lower items on the menu, the explanatory help popup moves down as well, and so the help for the items nearer the bottom gets truncated. https://pasteboard.co/HNi9lq0.png
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by essayist 8y ago
Erica Chenoweth would agree with you. She's done the research that shows that "start killing people", in many situations, is ineffective. https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
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by essayist 8y ago
Were you on the East Coast in August 2011? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/earthquake-dc-e...
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by essayist 8y ago
The Moth, maybe? https://themoth.org/about-moth-events
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by essayist 8y ago
Study from 45 years ago: Heinz von Foerster’s 1970-1971 experiment at the Biological Computing Laboratory for apprehending the fourth dimension is unique ... combining four dimensional geometry, stereoscopic vision, and joystick manipulati
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by essayist 8y ago
Possibly relevant: https://systemswe.love/videos/life-of-an-airline-flight

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