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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, al…

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…

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 ex…

The novella "To Be Taught, If Fortunate," the only Becky Chambers book not part of either of those series, is also good.

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.

There actually is a small "2019" at the bottom of it.

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…

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?

I'm working on CauseGraph, a set of tools for analyzing cause/influence relationships between people and events over time. http://causegraph.org

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 t…

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…

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?

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.

"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 N…

Your experience with fiberglass reminds me of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnionInTheVarnish

The NSA has apparently been pulping its paper waste for a while: https://www.nsa.gov/about/commitment/nsa_goes_green/nsa_recy...

A little bit later, there's this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World

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:…

> “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?

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 …

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…

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 "…