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should designers design?

  • by Francis Tseng
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http://precaritypilot.net/designing-economic-cultures-cultivating-socially-and-politically-enaged-design-practices-against-procedures-of-precarisation/

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The point of online voting systems like Reddit is not to highlight the best content, but to build and maintain hegemony Russell Brand struck a chord a few months ago when he leveled TNI Vol. 23: Shelter is out now. the same critique of voting that radicals have been delivering to mostly deaf ears for over 100 years.

Very Serious Populists

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The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel . Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.

Anna Karenina principle - Wikipedia

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Moral foundations theory is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, modular foundations. At present, the theory proposes six such foundations: Care, Fairness, Liberty, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity; however, its authors envision the possibility of including additional foundations.

Moral foundations theory - Wikipedia

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Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened. Counterfactual thinking is exactly as it states: "counter to the facts." These thoughts consist of the "What if?"

Counterfactual thinking

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Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.

Stellaris

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Donald Trump may be struggling to capture a majority of voters in the heartland of America, but there is one eastern European precinct he would likely carry in a landslide - if only they were allowed to vote in US elections.

How Facebook powers money machines for...

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Elites shouldn't be forced to share ill-gotten gains -- they should be prevented from ever getting them. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Quinn Anya/Flickr In my review of Twilight of the Elites , Chris Hayes's thoughtful critique of American meritocracy, I largely agreed with his contention that the current system is frequently rigged by those at the top.

Redistributing Wealth Is the Wrong Way...

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If you use Facebook, or Twitter, have a Wi-Fi connection, watch television or have been to an office Halloween party, you've probably encountered them: internet memes. These shareable, sometimes pithy and often puerile units of culture have emerged as the lingua franca of the 2016 election, and have given the American people an entirely new way of articulating their beliefs.

Meme warfare: how the power of mass...

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Moral hazard occurs under a type of information asymmetry where the risk-taking party to a transaction knows more about its intentions than the party paying the consequences of the risk. More broadly, moral hazard occurs when the party with more information about its actions or intentions has a tendency or incentive to behave inappropriately from the perspective of the party with less information.

Moral hazard - Wikipedia

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Nerd Sniping Definition - Nerd sniping is a slang term that describes a particularly interesting problem that is presented to a nerd, often a...

What is Nerd Sniping? - Definition from...

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MOST contemporary macroeconomic models are built around the idea of "equilibrium". Put crudely, this means that an economy expanding at its "potential" (a very woolly concept) will keep growing at the same pace unless it is disturbed.

Building a better model

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I've spent many years referencing Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type of thinking is an official bias but I can't recall the name or details. It's been an invaluable reference for helping me identify the hidden flaws in my own thinking.

Cognitive bias cheat sheet

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