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Serrath posted:I'll bite; what's wrong with quinoa? As above it's removing a staple food from regions that need it for the west that don't. It has higher protein then other grains, but protein deficiency isn't really a problem in western diets.
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I had no idea, thanks.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 14:30 |
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Tokamak posted:Is that based on a comp sci. undergrad, or something else? I could imagine an undergrad data mining degree being an interesting combination of compsci/science/math/economics and social science courses. BSc CompSci, MSc Distributed Computing. I imagine a full data mining degree would be a combination of programming, statistics and artificial intelligence.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 14:35 |
Those On My Left posted:I think NationBuilder was used by Adam Bandt's 2013 campaign as something of a pilot program, to see whether it was worth it. I'm pretty sure it's now getting some use in the Victorian Greens campaign- for the state election this November. I know WA Greens took a look at that and went "Yes Please" and got Scott re-elected basing the campaign off the same principles. From what I heard it was pretty targeted, in that door knockers were given a set list of houses to go to in each street.
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Yeah I had a nice chat with the greens guy that came to my house at the time. They were sent with names of the people on the roll that they were meant to talk to.
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Small Keating posted:Good poast. I believe (TOML, plz correct if I am wrong) the Greens also make use of Nation Builder (http://nationbuilder.com/), which was a big US Democrats staple. Yeah, Adam's campaign used it last year and basically every election since (Tas, WA Senate, Vic later this year) is picking up the program and running with it because it's much better than anything various states were using before.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 14:59 |
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Murodese posted:The amount of poo poo that can be found out about you from what you eat, the TV shows you watch and your browsing history is hilariously terrifying. There's this article about how Target can work out that a woman is pregnant and estimate the delivery date without her buying anything explicitly baby related. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
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DAAS Kapitalist posted:There's this article about how Target can work out that a woman is pregnant and estimate the delivery date without her buying anything explicitly baby related. Yeah, I remember seeing this one on the Checkout. I was honestly more impressed than anything else. Maybe it's because I've never had this come up as a personal issue, but I'm not phenomenally against shops and services using my direct history with them to tune things specifically to me. Sellign personal information, okay, that's lovely and I'm against it, but I find it hard to be pissed off at them using the information I directly gave them. Hell, I'm all for it in theory; I'd probably hate ads a lot less if they were about things I actually cared about. Again, maybe just lack of experience, and I'd change my mind when how it actually works rubs up against me. While it's most definitely more and worse, I'm all for Target going 'yo, you buy a lot of X and Y, our ridonkulous amounts of data indicate that you might also like Z'.
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DAAS Kapitalist posted:There's this article about how Target can work out that a woman is pregnant and estimate the delivery date without her buying anything explicitly baby related. You can also use shopping lists to work out when people are likely to develop chronic diseases and use browsing history to build a full physical and mental health profile of people, which is ~invaluable~ for insurance agencies.
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O_o
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 15:53 |
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Cleretic posted:Yeah, I remember seeing this one on the Checkout. I was honestly more impressed than anything else. It's probably only a matter of time before these things catch up with consumers. Stuff like medical premiums going up as they assess your lifestyle as more risky from shopping habits. There's also the fact on how lax most institutions are with security when it comes to data. Plus issues with who ends up with the data.
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More dodgy donations, job appointments for the energy industry and LNP/ALPquote:http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/secret-agl-political-donations-while-seeking-csg-approval-20140810-101yrj.html
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 16:08 |
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He's wearing melbourne football club colours in the first photo so I can totally understand the progression tbh.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 16:18 |
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Isn't Rupes doing the same exactly front pages for some (all?) his UK rags as well?
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 16:22 |
ThirdPartyView posted:Isn't Rupes doing the same exactly front pages for some (all?) his UK rags as well? Oh no, Rupert would never tell his editors what to write. Ever. That would be unethical.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 16:55 |
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"white folks"
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Murodese posted:You can also use shopping lists to work out when people are likely to develop chronic diseases and use browsing history to build a full physical and mental health profile of people, which is ~invaluable~ for insurance agencies. You'll be happy to know that Coles has partnered with Medibank! If you link your Medibank account info with your Fly Buys card, you get ~double points~ on healthy items like fruit and vegetables. They're strangely silent on what Medibank does with that data but it's not a huge leap to guess! (It's exactly what you said)
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On greens and nation builder - yep, getting used, still has a lot of kinks. Also being used by the republicans in the US, and at least the ALP here. Being able to find actionable insight will be what separates the parties. Greenies aren't the only ones who went over to copy obamas campaign methodology. On loyalty cards - my main concern as a consumer is that they're not giving me fair value for my data.
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Sisgmund posted:On loyalty cards - my main concern as a consumer is that they're not giving me fair value for my data. Nor will they. The average consumer has no idea how this stuff works; they swipe their fly buys because one day they'll get a plane ticket (lol no they won't) and that's the end of it. They don't need to give you fair value because everyone else is handing it over for free. Once again, baby boomers ruin everything for everyone by being completely unprepared for life in the information age.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 22:56 |
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"The most provocative, non-abusive political columnists"
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 23:03 |
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Tokamak posted:Without going deep into their data collection policies, I always wondered how far supermarket data collection goes. I know that loyalty stuff gets taken, but I always wondered if there was anything stopping them from collecting every transaction. There's plenty of value in (pseudo-)anonymous transaction records. Knowing how people can be easily psychologically manipulated, its odd that the government maintains a pretty laissez-faire attitude towards data collection. If the government collected and used everything they could about a person in the way a retailer does, we'd be up in arms about it. B-b-but the private sector can do no wrong, it's only big gubbament who would dream of doing nefarious things with my data
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I looked up Islamic leaders condemn Isil attacks, and came back with a small artical from the Jakarta news? Ditto greens? urseus fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Aug 10, 2014 |
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No see, it's white Christians who are the truly oppressed minority! Everyone's freely bashing Christianity all the time but no one ever dares to speak up against Islam!
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urseus posted:I looked up Islamic leaders condemn Isil attacks, and came back with a small artical from the Jakarta news? Ditto greens? The Greens have come out with like three media releases in the last fortnight about the ISIL attacks. Look harder.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 23:42 |
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I don't think enough love is being given to Palmer for his Universities should be free comment.
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# ? Aug 10, 2014 23:56 |
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I guess you haven't seen today's Australian front page. Tip for all: don't.
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Bifauxnen posted:No see, it's white Christians who are the truly oppressed minority! Everyone's freely bashing Christianity all the time but no one ever dares to speak up against Islam! A literal argument people in my family were trying to make at Christmas time over lunch. Thankfully I only see most of these people once or twice a year.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 00:37 |
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Duck back a couple of pages for this threads editorialising.You Am I posted:I guess you haven't seen today's Australian front page. Gough Suppressant posted:Pretty much every high profile Jewish school in Melbourne has had guards and barbed wire for yonks. I sometimes wonder what kind of effect that has on the social and world view development of the kids going there everyday.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 00:46 |
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You've gotta be loving kidding me, they put that photo of a child with a severed head on the front loving page
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 00:58 |
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Jesus Christ, that Life of Pyne picture is pure nightmare fuel.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 00:59 |
Lizard Combatant posted:Jesus Christ, that Life of Pyne picture is pure nightmare fuel. My first thought was "Mr. Bateman? Is that you?" "Australian Psycho" Has a nice ring to it eh?
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PM Tones was on the radio this morning proclaiming that IS(is)'s current goal is to found no less than a terrorist nation. I presume this means an organised society based solely on exportation of terror and importation of used munitions? I can't help but feel when you start throwing around 'terrorist nation' the term terrorist may have lost something of its edge. I wonder if Abbot is genuinely bad enough to make his main card lose its shine.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 01:21 |
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Abbott is losing/has lost the support of voters for his domestic policies, so him and his media boosters are trying to change the topic to terrorism. You need a strong leader to stand up to terrorism!
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Abbott is losing/has lost the support of voters for his domestic policies, so him and his media boosters are trying to change the topic to terrorism. You need a strong leader to stand up to terrorism! Perhaps not the best choice of direction for them, our leader doesn't even have the strength to stand up to his own Cabinet.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 01:39 |
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I don't want to live on this planet any more.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 01:43 |
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Someone post the Courier Mail. That one beats all of em.
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# ? Aug 11, 2014 01:50 |
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Potentially some good policy to finally come from this government: AFR posted:Murray and Hockey could surprise big banks
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Sanguine posted:PM Tones was on the radio this morning proclaiming that IS(is)'s current goal is to found no less than a terrorist nation. Gee a terrorist nation sounds sinister. I sure don't want any of those on my planet
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Not sure if this has been posted here http://www.smh.com.au/national/agent-albert-mp-listed-as-secret-kgb-informant-in-russian-archives-20140810-102jtm.html quote:A federal Labor MP was among a list of secret KGB informants, according to newly released Russian intelligence archives.
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Anidav posted:Someone post the Courier Mail. That one beats all of em. I think kid_holding_severed_head.jpg is still in front but...
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