Sociology of elites looks at this kind of thing. One fairly easy thing to do is to do a network analysis of board membership. The ones I've seen tend to describe what you already know anecdotally, a small group of elites controlling a large number of central companies.
The problem for Uber was that this benign government didn't have a parliamentary majority for the new law without the Danish People's Party who are not particularly interested in supporting Uber or its business model.
I'm smartphone phobic, I have only used one briefly and I hated it. I prefer the ergonomics of texting with buttons and I get stressed out by constantly being connected to social media, emails etc. Personally I feel like smartphones are a huge step backwards. We have allowed corporations to colonise our leisure time and disrupt our social interactions in exchange for a few tawdry gimmicks.
I think deep learning is a pretty hefty starting point for learning NLP. Cutting edge NLP seems to be more and more based on deep learning, but it's a rather steep learning curve for a beginner. I would have thought starting with the basics (like the NLTK book) was more useful. Once those concepts are mastered, one can progress to see what deep learning brings to the field.
the argument is that increased taxation to fund a war effort plus increased industrial output to produce weapons of war leads to redistribution of wealth from the wealthy (who are disproportionately taxed) to the working class (who work in the factories and related industries to produce the armaments).
I'm a fan of continuous refactoring, making small improvements to code and environments constantly, rather than trying to do everything all at once. It might not be as satisfying, but it's less risky and a lot more realistic in most work environments.
I think one of the main reasons that something like Linux keeps on growing is that it needs to support more drivers as they come onto the market. So unless you want to remove support for older hardware, you're more or less going to grow endlessly.
The other case mentioned, the Willingham case is even more horrifying. A man was convicted of murdering his children and sentenced to death on bogus evidence. When presented with evidence to the contrary, the state of Texas under Rick Perry ignored it and allowed the man to be executed. This is state sanctioned murder of an innocent man. Why is the Governor not on trial for this?
The thing about a Netflix room for sick kids really reminded how good we've got things in Denmark. I have two days off every time a kid gets sick, no questions asked, as does my partner. I work in the public sector though, so I'm not sure what the standard arrangement is in the private sector.
I'm not sure the Danes were ever military only, Denmark was also an agricultural society during the viking period. As I understand it, the viking raids were in fact organised around the agricultural calendar, with the two raiding seasons taking place after the harvest and after the sowing. And of course the Vikings were interested in acquiring farming land and often settled and farmed in their places of conquest.
A more apt comparison might be pastoralist raiders as mentioned in Turchin's War and Peace and War, whose nomadic lifestyle led naturally to the development of military skills that could be applied in raids on settled communities. Turchin wrote a lot about the Tatars and the Mongols could also be a good example.
I think you're right about this, but I wonder how feasible this is in a country like Sweden where most of the complicated manufactured goods that break easily are probably produced elsewhere and the population is not big enough for foreign manufacturers to be bothered investing the requisite capital to redesign their products. It might be effective to do this kind of a thing at a European level, where the size of the market is big enough that producers will consider it worthwhile to substantially change production practices.
It's a good idea to make this more visible, but they should also make it visible when a repository does not have a license. If they did the UI right this would encourage developers to license their code in the same way that Facebook encourages users to add a profile picture.
He's a personal friend, i can buy him a beer on your behalf ;). I think he makes it work because he works part time and uses the rest of his time on open source projects. He could easily be earning far more if he worked full time, but this is what he prioritises.
Personally, I really like her writing style. She's very honest about the things she doesn't know, which I find a lot easier to relate to than blogposts by some random internet gurus. Behind the self-deprecation she has a lot of really interesting things to say and is really enthusiastic about learning new technologies. Her full archive is well worth reading.
It seems like a really bizarre case from a European perspective. If one concluded that the theatre was liable for the actions of a gun carrying lunatic wouldn't the same apply for all service providers acting in public space? Concerts, bars, cafés etc would all be expected to prepare for terrorist-style shooting incidents. Whatever about the excessive cost of such preparations (which would be passed on to the consumer), the effect on public consciousness by constantly rubbing up against militarised zones would be horrible.
This hunting method features in Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman where the Ice Age hunters use similar structures to corral migrating caribou. In his account (presumably based on scientific speculation), the hunters glut themselves with meat in order to gain enough weight to survive the winter.