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by metasean 9y ago
>Almost 200 years ago that discerning observer of social life, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote about the exceptional ability of Americans to form voluntary associations and, more generally, to cooperate in solving problems that required con
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The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)(peterturchin.com)
167 points by metasean 9y ago|180 comments
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by metasean 9y ago
There's a day every decade where the U.S. Census does their best to get an accurate count of every human in the U.S. [0] Combine that with the data from the correspondinc Apr 15th, and we should have something pretty close to a "p
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by metasean 9y ago
I had a professor who was adamant that we think of all design as "Constraint-based design". I've definitely found it a useful approach - but I still benefit from the reminder to use it in personal projects.
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How a Rising Minimum Wage Affects Jobs in Seattle(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by metasean 9y ago
This is similiar to goals of http://codekata.com/ except, this focuses on design, while Code Katas are more focused on algorithms.
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by metasean 9y ago
I find these tools to be really useful in evaluating designs and emphasizing to stakeholders where designs fall according to standards: - http://www.checkmycolours.com/ - https://snook.ca/technical/colo
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by metasean 9y ago
I grew up with a sociologist as a mother, which means I grew up being taught a lot these systemic bias indicators. Having tried to explain the systemic nature of racism was certainly much more of a challenge before social media! I'd a
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by metasean 9y ago
In the first 14 years of Norway's Highest Security Department (SHS), their version of solitary confinement, they only had to put 11 prisoners there! [0] The Wikipedia descriptions of Anders Breivik's confinement describe SHS [1] A
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by metasean 9y ago
Please provide some links to these projects.
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by metasean 9y ago
There's a start-up called Daplie building such a system of hardware and apps. It's open source and the founder has a focus on user-owned data and data security. (I know several teammembers and preordered via Indigogo, but am othe
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by metasean 9y ago
> Normal sterilization procedures such as boiling or irradiating materials fail to render prions non-infective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encep... (The quoted sentence is from the paragr
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by metasean 9y ago
According the always correct source of ultimate wisdom</s> - wikipedia, there isn't currently a way to test for it while alive, but there are some promising areas of research. >At present, there is virtually no way to det
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by metasean 9y ago
re: Discussions of death I completely agree that it should be talked about more and plans made. Unfortunately several family members don't see things the same way and this provided the impetus for discussion. > You should stop thin
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by metasean 9y ago
Thank you! I definitely went through a range of emotions from confusion to anger that more wasn't done to minimize the likelihood of incidents like this. As I learned more, I realized how improbable this situation was in the first plac
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by metasean 9y ago
The last I heard the test can only be done during autopsy. (Because they're analyzing slices of brain tissue.)
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by metasean 9y ago
I first heard about prions and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after getting a letter saying I may have been exposed. I had surgery after someone with CJD, but before that person died, was autopsied, and diagnosed. That was over a decade ago. So
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by metasean 9y ago
The article mentions the first two people asked to leave were a couple flying together.
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by metasean 9y ago
>Pretending disability And what happens to those that are 'genuinely handicap' and have medical costs that unavoidably exceed the 'lower amount'?
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by metasean 9y ago
What happens to the weapon when the maker/owner passes away?
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by metasean 9y ago
I can't speak specifically to ADA, but I know federally funded programs were required to meet 508 standards as of 2003, which included captions or transcripts for videos. So expecting such affordances for ADA purposes in 2007 seems rea
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by metasean 9y ago
The mobile experience of reading this article is horrific. I did enjoy the little bit I was able to read before the lilliputian font drove me away, but drive me away it did!
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Throw a “No Small Talk” Party(extranewsfeed.com)
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by metasean 10y ago
But I doubt he actually read it. It's more likely that he listened to the audio version.
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by metasean 10y ago
from August 2016
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by metasean 10y ago
If I stop the video, then use the "resume video" in the lower-right corner, then I get the audio but it's out of sync by however long it took me to stop the video in the first place.
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by metasean 10y ago
The first step of which should include asking questions about the law. Why does it exist? What prompted its creation in the first place? Does it meet its original goals? What does it inadvertantly do? How does it fail? etc.
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by metasean 10y ago
I'm really not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Neither curiousgirl or I said the prof should have been detained. Neither curiousgirl or I said his detention was legal. Neither curiousgirl or I said we shouldn't fight the curr
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by metasean 10y ago
No need to be a Derp about it, curiousgal was asking a logical question. Yes, the answer was in the article, but it was toward the end. Since many of these days skim articles or read HN comments first or some combination _and_ getting paid
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by metasean 10y ago
Comes up on a regular basis [0], but definitely worth the read if you haven't already done so. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=They%20Write%20the%20Right%20S...

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