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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
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 tree" even if that will contain many more errors
-use DBpedia/Wikidata, and address issues discovered by editing Wikipedia/Wikidata
-use a 3D visualization tool, due to the size of the graph
I think it reveals an interesting overall structure, and some interesting details for those who zoom in despite the issues with the data.
Comment · 1 year ago
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 exactly how he thought of it or not). It seems like an interesting attempt to express this non-linear structure in the form of a book.
Comment · 1 year ago
The novella "To Be Taught, If Fortunate," the only Becky Chambers book not part of either of those series, is also good.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
There actually is a small "2019" at the bottom of it.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 like the latter, because it makes it easier to keep track of specific claims and their references. If people did more work on that, those relationships could be used to generate larger diagrams/histories like this and keep them up to date.
Comment · 9 years ago
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?
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm working on CauseGraph, a set of tools for analyzing cause/influence relationships between people and events over time. http://causegraph.org
Comment · 9 years ago
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 there aren't enough people who support their agenda enough to donate. They are not "the little guy".
Comment · 9 years ago
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 mail I receive through USPS is ~90% unwanted (maybe more, if you go by weight), despite my ongoing efforts to "go paperless" and opt out of marketing mail. If I could stop this constant flow of junk, I would gladly pay UPS/FedEx twice as much money to deliver the small amount of mail that I actually care about.
Comment · 10 years ago
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?
Comment · 10 years ago
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.
Trying to answer your final question: there are a lot of things that I should probably improve here, but I've also wondered if this kind of giant graph visualization just doesn't really work for most people.