Interesting Links for 06-02-2015

[andrewducker]

• How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
  (tags: Google censorship )
• New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers
  (tags: farming technology drm )
• MPs Are Worried About Losing Their Verified Ticks On Twitter Due To The Election
  (tags: politics Twitter uk funny )
• Destroying the KKK through love and friendship
  (tags: racism

Comments

[andrewducker]

The Pebble piece is friends-locked, which I hadn't realised. Have pinged the person who wrote it to ask if they fancy sharing.

Edit: Now unlocked!

[andrewducker]

Good piece with more details on the KKK post:
http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/kkk-member-walks-up-to-black-musician-in-bar-but-its-not-a-joke-and-what-happens-next-will-astound-you/comment-page-70/

(Via Lauren on FB)

[gwendally]

The reason people think women lie is because women are people and people lie.

[andrewducker]

The issue is though, that people seem to trust women less than they trust men.

[gwendally]

That sounds unlikely. I recall reading that women were considered less likely to be corrupt, for example.

And I can tell you that women usually win child custody cases

[andrewducker]

Or to quote bits of the links from the article:
"Managers tend to believe that women who ask for flexible working hours are more likely than men to use the time for personal, rather than professional, reasons"

"a 300-page report by a Florida Supreme Court commission, which after a two-year study found that ``although some may ignore its existence, gender bias permeates Florida`s legal system today.``"

"College students surveyed revealed that they think up to 50% of their female peers lie when they accuse someone of rape, despite wide-scale evidence and multi-country studies that show the incidence of false rape reports to be in the 2%-8% range"

[momentsmusicaux]

I've wondered about MPs with 'mp' in their email, or domain name, or twitter, before. It seems rather short-sighted!

[threegoldfish]

The one thing that got me about the Finnish piece was the school lunch thing. I don't remember getting a chance to pick and choose what and how we were given on our trays. You had to take everything so that they could say you were given the full amount of calories, protein, and vegetables. I even had gotten into it at one point with a lunch lady because there was a peanut butter sandwich option (can they even do that these days with allergies?) where you had to use the entire like half a cup of peanut butter on your sandwich because that was the way to get the full protein allotment and who the heck uses that much peanut butter? Especially when there was no jam! So of course it didn't all get eaten. Perhaps these problems are things lunch reforms are attempting to alleviate. I don't know.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes - they've taken five things they now prefer about Finland and said that the Finnish way is Better.