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Jeremy Cherfas

> the default assumption that everyone should read every comment on a forum is an idea that fails at scale too, as one troll or disruptive person can spoil everyone's reading - the Tragedy of the Comments.

A shame that the link to Tragedy of the Comments is dead, it sounded interesting and prescient.

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@jessfanzo You've very welcome. And there's more to come.

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That study of how people from rice- and wheat-growing areas of China differ in social situations is interesting, and part of a long history of trying to make use of the collectivism needed to grow rice well to explain other things. I'm not totally convinced.

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Thanks @podknife for adding me to your lists. Looking forward to getting to know new listeners.

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@FranciscoEGZ85 @GuinnessIreland What I had not realised is quite how fast and loose RA Fisher played with Gosset's ideas. Gosset didn't care much about p<0.05 as a number, only about what it might mean in a wider context.

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Hey @leckerpodcast - You're not so bad yourself!

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Heh. Good advice. I do in fact use Ryan’s service. One of my links in that piece points to it in case anyone else is curious.

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I noticed that my Like of this recent post by Chris Aldrich features a photo not from Chris's site, but from the site of the person he is talking about. That's pretty magical.

# indieweb

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@jgmac1106 Now you force me to be that person who points out that piranha are freshwater fish. I was willing to ignore it before.

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Any chance you can explain why you think the CDATA wrapper is the issue? My Known feed also wraps description in CDATA and that may be what is causing micro.blog to have trouble with it.

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@dullhunk Very good question. Who is milling their own wheat and baking 100% wholewheat in the UK? I know https://twitter.com/e5bakehouse and a few others on Instagram. https://twitter.com/RealBread must know.

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The one question I really wanted @npr to ask about Chinese tariffs on American nuts: will it make those nuts cheaper for Americans?

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@mdesoucey Amen! Where do we sign up?

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@PhilVincent Just discovered and went looking for your chart. Page not found. Which, to me, suggests the need for an 11th day, devoted to the and what it means to own your content.

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@SmallholderIRL Very honoured to be mentioned in such company. Thank you.

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@wordsby_bob Sounds interesting; where was the talk and will it be shared?

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I'd say that was progress, yes. Of course, for all I know you might have written that by hand in WordPress, rather than via, say, micro.blog app. Either way, it **is** progress. And now, enjoy your Mac.

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I wanted to use a new highlight in Instapaper to trigger an action, and while last week the email action didn't work, this week it is the file action that fails. Sure it is free, but this isn't going to entice me to fork over money for a paid service.

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@rachellaudan What I really want to know is how close did your nose need to be to the grindstone.

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Replied to a post on eli.li :

A great intro to micro.blog and how it fits more generally into the ecosystem. But I had to laugh at Eli saying that since he discovered micro.blog he is now a full-time PHP developer. I have just spent all morning, literally, trying to improve the sandpit ii8n which I play with PHP, and have just about given up, utterly defeated. How anyone ever gets XDebug to work is completely beyond me. VSCode, Atom, even PHPStorm all require the most astonishing acrobatics which I have simply been unable to perform. Now what?

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@beardfoundation Congratulations to all the podcast nominees. I look forward to sampling the one I haven't yet tried.

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Aaron Davis wonders "when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb?" To me, "belong to", "in" and "part" signify slightly different depths of commitment, none of which conveys "citizenship". The way I understand it, citizenship is granted by some other authority. You can't just claim it for yourself.

I like Kartik Prabhu's idea that posting to a domain you own is all it takes. "Everything else is a bonus". But that's a little like Robinson Crusoe being a citizen of his island. Interaction with others matters too.

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I love reading about how other people organise their reading and writing, although it seldom impacts my own system (which I hesitate to call a system). Chris Aldrich's post is no exception, with lots of great ideas about how to find, filter and act on the firehose of stuff that's out there. I can't help but wonder whether Chris and I have discussed Zettelkasten methods in the past. https://zettelkasten.de

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@SlackHQ I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn't want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows people to own their messages.

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The good news is that -- the main channel for which I want both IRC and Slack -- should be OK as it uses the Slack API. Or so I am reliably informed ...

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Remarkable: "High school students prefer vegetables seasoned with herbs and spices, rather than plain veggies". I wonder whether this counts as industry-funded research, coming up with a result that suits industry. http://news.psu.edu/story/508608/2018/03/06/research/spicing-it-high-school-students-may-prefer-seas...

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Jonathan LaCour has done some great work freeing himself from Facebook and Instagram, and his post is a good starting point for others who want to do the same. So far, I confess, I have not felt the need myself. There are no photographs in either of those silos that I don't have a copy of (actually, the original, not a copy) on my desktop computer. And any text I may have place on FB is also either a copy of something here or else completely insubstantial. Heck, I'm still bringing in old blog posts to my new system by hand, very slowly, and I haven't begun to bring in old posts from a previous incarnation of this stream. Maybe it is because I was an independent blogger long before either FB or IG saw the light of day, but I have never regarded those places as worthy of original material.

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Eat your heart out @replyall. @NealGoldfarb does a yes-yes-no for the ages, and all on his own, more or less.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37022

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Kudos to @DICKS for doing the right thing. If I ever needed anything that they sell, that's where I'm going to buy it.

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@toggl Overall, the font size and lack of contrast make the screen hard for me to read on my iPhone 6+ and more specifically, switching between manual and automatic is more difficult and selecting clients and projects more cumbersome.

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Kinda like Indie Hosters, but more suitable for Gens 3-4? Add Known support and you might get even more customers.

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Jayson Lusk's reminder that the Economic Research Service is a really important source of data is valuable. His suggestion to follow the ERS's daily "chart of note" is even better.

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

Interesting reading, though I cannot quite see how the various personae might map onto a single micro.blog site. Nevertheless, I look forward to whatever you come up with.

One question. I know 10C offers Notes and Todos and Photos, but I have never seen anything here that would encourage me to use those facilities. My notes are in nvALT and my todos are on paper and my photos are in lot of places, but they're all on my desktop machine. So why would I want to use those facilities here? And are you sure they are worth keeping in your "silo"?

PESOS from the original site.

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If I were any kind of entrepreneur (which I'm not) I'd be figuring out how to hook up with supermarkets -- or even the local greengrocer -- to turn the bananas they throw out into my highly desirable banana bread.

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I hear you. There's no way on earth to be precise about the words for a pre-ferment, and I for one tend to use them interchangeably, at least to some extent. Of course, if Reinhart offered precise definitions, even hydrations, of "stiff" and "wet" that would at least make consistency possible. His video on the 12 steps is rather good, and something I show in my workshops.

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Nice to see Stacey De Polo set off on her exploration of things , but I find it hard to imagine that as of my reading, not one of her contacts on either Twitter or FB has reacted in any way. I guess some plugin work still needed. Which is part of the reason I am writing this reply.

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Chris reminds me, I ought to get something lined up for a global celebration.

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I don't know about you, @mdesoucey , but I'm missing out on it being on Facebook.

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When I teach writing (which I do), I always say to people, "This is ambiguous. Sure, I can ask you here in class. But most people who read this aren't going to be able to ask you to clarify. They're either going to be confused, or jump to the meaning you don't want them to."

The silly thing is, Dave is there to clarify, and he chooses not to.

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We have had an extensive discussion today in irc -dev and I think we are beginning to see what is going on. I will try and summarise here later

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Words to live by -- and not just for web developers. Your job is to make it easy for the people who use what you make, not for yourself.

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Installed wandering.gs just for the fun of it. It'll be a very dull picture, that's for sure.

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IndieWeb and homemade sauerkraut. I wonder how many other people are in this particular intersection?

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Thanks @nickykylegarden, although I have also noticed that there now seem to be a fair few small commercial companies in the UK and elsewhere that have taken up the burden of supplying varieties that really suit home growers.

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Fascinating post from Jon Udell about bookmarking and sharing audio sound-bites. I hope to be able to get to grips with the details and maybe even get to the point of being able to do the same, once the New Year clean-up is over.

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I don't really understand any of the details of how people install, use and monitor personal renewable energy resources, but I love following along with Chris Neale's efforts. I'd really like to read a comprehensive, but low-level, account of the whole story, even though there is currently no chance I could do anything similar myself.

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Two very good pieces of news from my friend Jason.

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Language Log has set out its stall and its intentions for 2018, which I applaud. There's talk of a redesign. I hope that in doing that, they consider adopting some Indieweb ideas.

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Such fun to read this, and others like it. I really want to know how one eats a goose barnacle, and what it tastes like. Also a good reminder to try better to track these things for myself, maybe as part of my very new monthly roundup posts.