djscram | 8 years ago | on: “Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches
Who is Will and why should we throw eggs at him?
djscram's comments
djscram | 8 years ago | on: How political data teams game Google to fool people
The problem is that the tactics work best for fake stories, because they can be pre-loaded and coordinated. True news is worked out between competing outlets and breaks messily.
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds
Actually there are a lot of reasons for dead people apparently coming back. Burying bodies so they stay down is actually a big effort for most cultures, wild animals and weather conditions can easily pull a body from a shallower grave and redeposit it somewhere else. Add that to the tendency of bodies to continue to change after death, or at least appear to (gums receding looks like teeth growing, etc.) and it's not hard to see how people in earlier culture s might get the impression that the dead are up and walking around. Factor in also how diseases can take members of a family or others close to the dead person invisibly, and, well...
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)
So, Hootsuite?
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
Nobody will watch part three, even though it is split into two movies, so the ending won't matter.
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Five Cities Beloved by Digital Nomads
Medellin is a really great place for Digital Nomads.
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Entrpreneurship Means I Give Up
Damn. I gave up after three paragraphs of fluff. I would have stuck with it longer if I had known there was a Keynesian buried in there somewhere.
djscram | 9 years ago | on: Is ‘grit’ overrated in explaining student success?
As someone with ADHD, I have spent a lot of my life trying to have more grit. In fact, I did make it through some difficult programs, the navy nuclear power program and Georgetown Law, prior to being diagnosed. But I always came across like I wasn't trying. I wanted desperately to try, but didn't understand that my mind couldn't just add grit on demand. (though if I managed to get myself in enough of a bind, the adrenaline did help). Somewhere along the line (before being diagnosed), I came to see things like grit as a moral judgement--one that I consistently failed.
djscram | 9 years ago | on: 78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis
Seems likely that most 1,000+ comment threads are political.
djscram | 10 years ago | on: Learning from Tay’s introduction
"We're sorry we held a mirror up to Twitter, and then you saw what lurks in that morass,"
I don't think the mirror is the problem.
djscram | 10 years ago | on: Custom resume from someone who wanted to work at Airbnb (2015)
Perhaps, but that Bedouin hospitality is part of the self-identity of most Arab groups, I believe. (source, was married to a Palestinian from Kuwait for several years and was exposed to a variety of Arab cultures in U.S.)
djscram | 10 years ago | on: Scientists to nudge asteroid off course as practice for protecting Earth
That would be hilarious, to a sufficiently distant civilization after a respectable amount of time. Maybe there's some kind of award they give out to planets that self-destruct. But instead of the Darwin award, it's called the Fermi award.
djscram | 10 years ago | on: Electability of 2016 Presidential Candidates as Implied by Betting Markets
Pretty sure that a lot of people who hate Donald Trump are following him on social media because he's the most likely person to say something outrageous.
djscram | 10 years ago | on: Editing humanity
One issue is gene diversity. Even if most parents are making ethical decisions, at some point there will be standard, best choices. But a species with a gene pool that is not diverse is more vulnerable.
djscram | 11 years ago | on: The User Is Drunk
The user skipped his ADHD meds today.
djscram | 11 years ago | on: The US government's web traffic
Are DHHS and Ed not on there yet? Or do they just not rank very highly?
djscram | 11 years ago | on: Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution
Only read the abstract, but Godel's work is pretty well known. He was not interested in showing a "flaw" in the Constitution, but in showing the logical systems of sufficient complexity are ALL either incomplete or or inconsistent. The Constitution is only an example. There aren't any political implications to this at all.
djscram | 12 years ago | on: Ender's Game is an Understated Story of Uncertainty
When I first read the book, I did think it was very compelling. But, as the book seems to have become core curriculum for every course on science fiction, I've come to think of it as really overrated. There are some very good, very innovative novels out there, and yet people keep teaching this one over and over.
I've also been around a lot of science fiction writers (I went to Clarion) and learned that Orson Scott Card is kind of an ass. I know that shouldn't change my judgement of the novel itself, but I still feel much less enthusiasm for it. (the sequels also soured me on the original a bit.)
djscram | 12 years ago | on: How To Lose Your Best Employees
Pretty sure the last place I worked did all ten of those. And it did lose anyone who was any good. The joke was that the only way to get respect was to leave and get re-hired.
djscram | 12 years ago | on: Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs
That's good news for those of us waiting for the GTA V release at Midnight tomorrow.
page 1