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Experienced Rails & JS full stack dev looking for freelance/contract/consulting opportunities. Location: French Alps Remote: Only - can travel anywhere in Europe for quarterly team…

While I think programming can be a good way to teach general thinking skills like perspective, clarity, precision, and abstraction, I'm dubious about the claim that it is the best …

The AEC manages the federal election roll. Enrolling is technically compulsory for all citizens but only seems to be enforceable once you are on the roll. Failure to get your named…

Here are a few justifications of democracy and how increasing voter turnout would affect them: 1) Epistemic (democracy is good because it makes the correct choices). Increasing vot…

Hi Debra - (longish) question about the white labelling aspect of vote.org: It seems like the implied value of vote.org is that increasing voter turnout can make democracy 'better'…

To address your first question, the actual quote is: > Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is pe…

What ever happened to the 7 habits? http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/7-habits-of-highly-succes...

> Just two of the [24] research groups produced a significant, positive effect If only they had used green jelly beans instead [^1]... This is not limited to social psychology. Sci…

Beautiful UI. Schelling's models of segregation is a great example of how simulation and data-vis can create insights in the humanities & social sciences. I made a similar (though …

> Civil law by contrast exists to right wrongs between private parties ie suing for compensation Civil law exists for exactly this reason, and has for hundreds of years. " rel="nof…

Perhaps this is not the best example given that Spain isn't from a common law tradition but I find the encroachment of criminal penalties for what are essentially civil matters ver…

"In 2012, Brown similarly pored over millions of emails hacked by Anonymous from the private intelligence company Stratfor. It was during his work on the Stratfor hack that Brown c…

Citizen policy juries, selected by random sampling of the electorate, with access to experts making public recommendations on policy. Even if they don't have formal authority to le…

The real value of an MBA is the signalling it provides future employers - that you are sufficiently smart, diligent & focused to get into a B school, and prepared to do long & ardu…

But how can they all be paid 'above market'? Is that like 90% of drivers being above average?

Reminds me of a good talk by Alain de Botton highlighting the nasty side of believing we live in a meritocracy whilst ignoring the role of chance. http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de…

Rights are the correlative of duties and obligations. If people have a duty not to X, then who ever that duty is owed to now has a right to X. As a being capable of moral reflectio…

Nice to see an explanation video that isn't just stick figures and animation. It was really slick - informative, humorous, and on brand (love that your socks match your brand's col…

Should also say - OSX10.7 + FF19

Bug: ctrl-a (or ctrl-anything) results in the non-ctlr key stuck in the text field with no way to delete it

this ^ 100 I started my PhD last year and was shocked at how intentionally broken academic e-books are. A few examples of daily experiences that send me into fits of frustrated rag…

A nice update to a very old meme. I didn't realise that the original 'you have two cows' was from 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows And after the NZ reference, I…

Nice. After dragging a file to the drop board, I couldn't remove it (FF18 OSX10.7). It would be nice if I could drag off as loading the wrong file seems to require a page refresh t…

I'd argue that the author got the description right while getting the reason wrong. First up a confession. I'm a cycling tragic who'd like nothing more to see the vast majority of …

Looks to me like you've now got a fantastic portfolio page. "Our creative & design is so good, its copied by a number of digital agencies and businesses including Dapatical Global,…