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by jlcx 1y ago
Thanks for the compliment! The larger graph is basically built by extracting all relationships of certain types (e.g. parent/child, teacher/student, cause/effect) from Wikidata, along with the earliest known date for the ite
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by jlcx 1y ago
For something related that takes a very different approach: https://causegraph.github.io/causalaxies In contrast to the author's decisions here, I decided to -go for an "everything tree" even if that will con
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by jlcx 1y ago
Speaking of Burke, I believe his book The Pinball Effect has notations in the margins directing the reader to other pages that mention the same node in the graph (whether that's exactly how he thought of it or not). It seems like an i
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by jlcx 1y ago
The novella "To Be Taught, If Fortunate," the only Becky Chambers book not part of either of those series, is also good.
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by jlcx 2y ago
3c here as well. The doctors were surprised that it had spread to my bones, and it didn’t show up on the CT scans that they were using for surveillance.
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by jlcx 7y ago
There actually is a small "2019" at the bottom of it.
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by jlcx 8y ago
People have spent some time entering programming languages, their publication/release dates, and their relationships (e.g. "influenced by", "based on") in Wikipedia and Wikidata. I like the latter, because it makes
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by jlcx 9y ago
There's a strong implication that Sesame Credit and the Social Credit System idea follow the example of FICO scores. Has anybody in the Chinese government explicitly stated this?
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Graph of ~180k relationships in Wikidata(causegraph.github.io)
1 points by jlcx 9y ago|0 comments
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by jlcx 9y ago
I'm working on CauseGraph, a set of tools for analyzing cause/influence relationships between people and events over time. http://causegraph.org
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by jlcx 10y ago
Everytown is funded by wealthy people like Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett. If there aren't enough other donors to give them the resources that the NRA has, it might be that there aren't enough people who support their agend
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by jlcx 10y ago
This article seems to be missing something important: the postal service is still subsidized by the federal government, even if there isn't a direct transfer of taxpayer money. The mail I receive through USPS is ~90% unwanted (maybe mo
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Show HN: CauseGraph – visualization of influences over time(causegraph.github.io)
5 points by jlcx 10y ago|0 comments
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by jlcx 10y ago
Impairment should be the focus, rather than the amount of any substance in anybody's bloodstream. Why not a general test of perception and reaction time?
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by jlcx 10y ago
It's an informative answer in terms of what current policy is, but "it may be" is not a good justification for legal restriction on what people can do with government inventions.
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by jlcx 11y ago
"The NFA proved very effective at reducing (eliminating, actually) murders committed with automatic weapons on the registry" That might be a bit too optimistic about the NFA. The NFA likely did reduce the possession and use of ma
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by jlcx 11y ago
Your experience with fiberglass reminds me of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnionInTheVarnish
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by jlcx 11y ago
The NSA has apparently been pulping its paper waste for a while: https://www.nsa.gov/about/commitment/nsa_goes_green/nsa_recy...
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by jlcx 11y ago
A little bit later, there's this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World
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by jlcx 11y ago
I think they're two different projects, but this is exactly what I thought of. A separate Chinese DDoS was even mentioned by cjb in his announcement of GitTorrent a few months ago: http://blog.printf.net/articles/
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by jlcx 12y ago
> “Before, they were into turf...now they’re more interested in making money.” So they switched from a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game?
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by jlcx 12y ago
I found the color palette used in the visualization to be unnecessarily confusing. Dark to light blue, then light to dark earth tones, with the key roughly even with the bottom of the column.
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by jlcx 12y ago
If Apple were just trying to get people to buy upgraded stuff from them, I'd understand. But they're not even doing that very well; the $699 configuration minis still come standard with a 5400 rpm spinning disk, for example, and
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by jlcx 12y ago
The "most users" thing might be technically true, but I bet a lot of the minis belonging to those users were still being upgraded after being sold by the original owners. I think "capture" is the key word. They're
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by jlcx 12y ago
I think that's what lots of people are wondering. There doesn't seem to be a good reason here, from the customer's point of view. It looks like they're just trying to push people to buy new machines instead of upgradin
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by jlcx 12y ago
Of course, before it was taken by the government, that "public wealth" was private wealth, and the taking of that private wealth was also justified with fear.
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by jlcx 12y ago
Perhaps constantly seeing and feeling the read and unread pages of the book reinforces the sense of when things happened in the story.
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by jlcx 12y ago
Not sure if it means anything, but your comment reminded me of this blog post written after Steve Jobs died: http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/universe_dented_grass_unde...
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by jlcx 12y ago
Is this a problem in the US specifically? Has there been some kind of international comparison on legal "messiness"? Just curious, by the way, and I can't think up a good search query for that.
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by jlcx 12y ago
This was mentioned in the article, along with Gene Healy's "Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything".

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