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RangeVoting.org - Center for Range Voting - front page
Nice overview of range voting systems. This came up during a discussion about governance in open source projects as a simpler alternative to the kind of approach Debian use.
"This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy." Interesting stories.
Predicting the results of the general election using R. With pretty pictures.
to election modelling politics prediction statistics uk ... on 28 March 2015
A Brief Political History Of The United Kingdom | FiveThirtyEight
As it says. A surpringly compact overview.
"Non-neutral applications built on top of the neutral Net are becoming as inescapable as the pull of a black hole. If Facebook is your experience of the Net, then you’ve strapped on goggles from a company with a fiduciary responsibility to keep you from ever taking the goggles off."
to internet politics privacy society web ... on 22 March 2015
"The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperability. RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability, but the big players don’t want that — they want to lock you in, shut out competitors, and make a service so proprietary that even if you could get your data out, it would be either useless". Quite.
Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future
Eben Moglen is very angry.
to freedom politics security snowden ... on 15 December 2013
A selection of... randomly interesting stuff related to licensing, cypherpunkery, etc. I honestly can't remember how I got here. (*checks browser history* -- oh, it was the article on Silk Road.)
to amusements bitcoin cypherpunks licensing philosophy politics security tea ... on 24 March 2013
FreeCulture.org – Students for Free Culture
The York chapter had lots of posters up when I was up there last time.
Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy | Global Public Media
On the inability of people to understand the exponential function, and why this is a really bad thing. I like the log2 rule of thumb he gives: if something is growing at N% per year, it will double every 70/N years.
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