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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 12-06-2013

Jun 12, 2013 12:00

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cairmen June 12 2013, 11:15:03 UTC

Just a note - EVERYONE should read the Atos decision link. If it's true (and I would very much like to find some independent refutation or corroberation on the details) it's utterly horrifying.

gwendally June 12 2013, 12:44:35 UTC

That article about the Salvation Army was sophist nonsense. He specifically required them to deny the Bible. They said they treat all clients with respect (and that's what I have observed) and the official statement said they were pondering justice and mercy.

Yet this asshole wasn't going to be happy until they repudiated the Bible, and made a trollish assertion that the reason they were not repudiating the central text of their religion is because they secretly want to murder people. Which they demonstrate by volunteering to stand out in the cold and collect funds to help poor people of whatever type.

So much for religious tolerance. Hint: it is supposed to go in both directions.

andrewducker June 12 2013, 12:48:47 UTC

There are plenty of Christians that don't believe that gay people should die. And believing that God wants gay people to die does not excuse individual belief in it.

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andrewducker June 12 2013, 18:33:28 UTC

Yup. No trickery - he just straight-out asked him.

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bohemiancoast June 12 2013, 19:48:55 UTC

Well, I completely ignored the Salvation Army story in favour of discovering that Paul Revere was a superconnector. Which in fact I think I had heard before, and which makes a Whole Lot of Sense.

andrewducker June 12 2013, 19:51:42 UTC

That sounds like an excellent plan!

(And yes)

del_c June 13 2013, 08:44:19 UTC

I wasn't sure if that was a real data set.

If I was fighting the war on terror in the eighteenth century, I'd have had Revere droned or renditioned for his propaganda engraving showing grinning Redcoats mowing down civilians. No metadata analysis required :-)

bohemiancoast June 13 2013, 09:15:26 UTC

The data set is (sort of) real, the analysis is spurious -- but there's a link to a real academic paper that did the same thing in a more studied way and also showed that social network techniques allow you to clearly identify Revere as most prominent link point.

anef June 13 2013, 07:27:05 UTC

I love the charming vision of Princes Street as host to numbers of pavement cafes. Will this be enabled by global warming, do you think?

danieldwilliam June 13 2013, 09:03:57 UTC

Predictions for Edinburgh are that it ends up with a climate much like London currently has.

Coupled with clever use of windbreaks, space heaters and pergolas such as you see in Prague, Café Princes Street seems feasible to me