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by liscovich 9y ago
Original WSJ article: "Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life" https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chi... If you don't have WSJ subscription, p
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Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life(wsj.com)
222 points by liscovich 9y ago|129 comments
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How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life(wsj.com)
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Leaked ISIS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis(news.sky.com)
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by liscovich 11y ago
Looker ( http://www.looker.com ), Periscope ( http://www.periscope.io ), Mode Analytics ( http://www.modeanalytics.com ), and Chart.io ( http://www.chart.io ) should probably be even more worried than
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Chrome extension to browse Quora anonymously(chrome.google.com)
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Tinder combats overzealous swipers with Interana analytics(fortune.com)
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John Cleese on Creativity (1991) [video](vimeo.com)
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by liscovich 12y ago
Here is the cached version of the article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CHoIZZi...
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by liscovich 12y ago
This is quite surprising to me. I know that Pete Hunt -- one of the authors of ReactJS -- and one of the main proponents of using it in conjunction with Flux, gave a talk at Meteor Devshop 11 earlier this year ( http://youtu.be&#x
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by liscovich 12y ago
I wonder if the criticism that the Flux team at Facebook has directed at two-way data binding is also applicable to Meteor. Jing Chen is her intro of Flux ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkdrAPrdcw&list=PLb0IAmt7-G...
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by liscovich 13y ago
Do you know of any examples of actual legal documents written in Lisp, or some other formal language?
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by liscovich 13y ago
True, but what would it look like in the future? Would you just fork a repo?
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by liscovich 13y ago
There is very little outright corruption in Congress. Special interests exert most of the influence through campaign contributions that are publicly disclosed. Larry Lessig has a great book on this: http://www.amazon.com/Re
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by liscovich 13y ago
An alternative XML version of the US Code from Cornell Law School: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft/united_states_code_...
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by liscovich 13y ago
This is only the codified portion of the federal law. So called "Statues at Large" that are passed by Congress but not codified into USC are not included. Plus this does not include the federal common law based on the rulings of f
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by liscovich 13y ago
We might have to wait even longer for all the common law based on the court rulings to be published in the same format. Not to mention the "secret common law" based on the FISA court rulings.
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by liscovich 13y ago
If you were to start a new country, what would the legislative process look like there? For example, how should new "startup nations" like BlueSeed ( http://blueseed.co ) inspired by Seasteading Institute go about passin
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by liscovich 13y ago
Does anyone know what software is used by the hill staffers when drafting new bills? How do they make sure that the laws do not contradict each other?
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by liscovich 13y ago
Hopefully, as a result, the disturbing statements like the ones below will become obsolete: James Duane, Regent Law School professor, defense attorney: "Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has bee
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by liscovich 13y ago
According to Wikipedia: "When sections are repealed, their text is deleted and replaced by a note summarizing what used to be there." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code#Treatment_o...
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by liscovich 13y ago
It would also be fascinating to see the visualizations of this evolution. And perhaps by matching it with the voting data from congress, one could track the footprint of each congressman.
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by liscovich 13y ago
As the schema guide explains, in 1999 they picked XML based on the study from 1996: "Following a 1999 feasibility study on XML/SGML, the Committee on House Administration adopted XML as a data standard for the exchange of legislat
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The entire US Code is now online in XML(uscodebeta.house.gov)
320 points by liscovich 13y ago|237 comments