freakonometrics

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

"If you're an organ donor in the U.S., there's a 25% chance your kidney ends up in the trash" https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-losing-17500-kidneys "The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years. Until recently, the algorithm that was protecting all organ donor patient information in the country, so STI status, mental health, every physical history, was from 1996. This is a fixable problem: it’s about the contractor, supply chain, it’s logistics, transparency"

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

Workshop in Corsica

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freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"L’Université de Liège a demandé à ces parents l’intitulé de la thèse de leur enfant, et ce n’est pas gagné" https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/divertissement/video/l-universite-de-liege-a-demande-a-ces-parents-l-intitule-de-la-these-de-leur-enfant-et-ce-n-est-pas-gagne_231925.html (mais c'est beau)

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krazykitty, 2 months ago to random French

On m'envoie jeter un œil sur Opérations Poste, y a toujours des postes en maths app où on auditionne plusse de Pierre que de meufs.

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"On sait que plus on dégrade les conditions d’indemnisation du chômage, plus on dégrade les conditions de négociation d’embauche et de salaire. C’est un signal envoyé aux personnes au chômage pour que, lorsqu’elles retrouvent un emploi, elles ne soient pas trop exigeantes sur les conditions de travail et le salaire. Mais c’est aussi un signal pour les salariés en poste" https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/03/assurance-chomage-cest-la-reforme-de-trop par @michaelzemmour

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"S’il était un personnage de BD, Gérald Darmanin serait peut-être le policier Dupont, dans Tintin. Ou Dupond, au choix. Il faudrait en tout cas mettre en avant, outre ses positions très à droite, sa manière de parfois faire n’importe quoi." (s'il y avait matière à rire, j'aurais mis 🤣 mais c'est tout sauf drôle) https://www.liberation.fr/politique/gerald-darmanin-plombe-une-operation-de-police-en-un-tweet-20240403_PVN6VUECV5BOXP7CTOAA5S7B2Q/

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself. This harmful prejudice ignores the work of those involved, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It also profoundly undermines the global academic community’s ability to share knowledge with society." https://theconversation.com/english-dominates-scientific-research-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-and-why-it-matters-226198 "Greater diversity also enables fluid dialogue among academics who share the same language"

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"The Fraud of Plastic Recycling" https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud "how Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale." (via https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/)

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"The collective behaviors of animals differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of behavior more closely than ever before" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

J'aime beaucoup cette question posée par @jacouzi https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jacques-nacouzi-54bb1328_velomtl-activity-7178920732414877696-XYpT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop "Pourquoi le critère de succès des voies automobiles est qu'elles soient vides alors que le critère de succès des pistes cyclables est qu'elles soient pleines?"

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freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Ce gouvernement a été élu, en partie, sur l’idée d’avoir dépassée cette opposition droite/gauche pour en offrir une synthèse ni de droite-ni de gauche, un juste milieu, forcément juste, puisqu’il est au milieu. Et effectivement, il n’est ni l’un, ni l’autre. C’est autre chose. Nous avons élu un manager, un cost killer. Il n’y a rien d’étonnant dans la dérive autoritaire de ce gouvernement" https://mouisebourgeoispresents.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/le-cost-killer-et-le-post-politique/

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Ce sont, de loin, les complémentaires qui coûtent le plus cher en frais de gestion : 21 % des cotisations ne financent pas les dépenses de santé, mais l’activité d’indemnisation et les frais d’administration, et surtout les « frais d’acquisition pour attirer de nouveaux clients » : la publicité, les frais de réseau, etc. La comparaison avec les frais de l’assurance-maladie est cruelle pour les complémentaires" https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/290324/sante-le-gouvernement-alourdit-encore-la-facture-des-francais

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation." https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/ "But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters."

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Le burn-out peut frapper très tôt : trentenaires et déjà « cramés »" https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2024/03/22/le-burn-out-peut-frapper-tres-tot-trentenaires-et-deja-crames_6223395_4401467.html

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"With her famous example of the hostile mother-in-law, Iris Murdoch argues that moral life involves more than good decision-making and behavior; attention itself has a moral dimension." https://philosophybreak.com/articles/iris-murdoch-on-the-morality-of-attention-and-the-hostile-mother-in-law/

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Ce n’est pas toujours facile à comprendre. Lundi 25 mars 2024, Valérie Pécresse est revenue sur les tarifs qui seront pratiqués par les transports franciliens lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024. Alors que le prix du ticket de métro a été fixé à 4 € (contre 2,10 € actuellement), la présidente de la région Île-de-France assure que c’est « justement pour que personne n’en achète » et éviter les « embolies aux guichets »." https://www.ouest-france.fr/jeux-olympiques/jo-2024-le-ticket-de-metro-est-fixe-4-euros-pour-que-personne-nen-achete-declare-valerie-pecresse-ddbd0eca-eb2d-11ee-a793-3d15ad53aa4e 😳

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

« Désormais, les seules sources pertinentes en matière de risque sont les avis des acteurs de marché, ajoute M. Bouleau. C’est un peu comme si on calculait la prime d’assurance d’un automobiliste non en fonction d’un calcul des risques réels d’accident, mais en mettant aux enchères le montant de la prime d’assurance. » https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/03/22/main-invisible-du-marche-croissance-dernieres-croyances-de-l-occident_6223599_3232.html (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312719893465 "Model migration and rough edges: British actuaries and the ontologies of modelling")

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently." https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-children-who-lost-limbs-in-gaza?src=longreads

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?" https://www.wired.com/story/car-free-cities-opposition/

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"Climate graphic of the week: Oceans set heat records for more than 365 days in a row" https://www.ft.com/content/d1b74e8a-f8f4-4092-af9a-46bcb73a099e?sharetype=blocked

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

https://dilbert.com/ #diversity

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

Dealing with climate risks (according to most politicians)

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freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

"How much tax a wealthy person owes in a given year is a complex tapestry threaded with exemptions, deductions, credits, and obscure loopholes you’ve never heard of. The ideal is to owe zilch. If that sounds impossible to achieve, just look at the leaked tax returns of the wealthiest Americans that nonprofit news site ProPublica analyzed: Over several years, billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg, among others, paid no federal income taxes at all." https://www.vox.com/money/2024/3/13/24086102/billionaires-wealthy-tax-avoidance-loopholes

freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

naïve #GIS question: are there any websites where we can download shapefiles (shp) of fictional worlds ? Middle-earth, Discworld, Oz, Alagaësia, Known World, Westeros, etc

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freakonometrics, 2 months ago to random French

wait... the inside of a car is not like that ? (https://ellis-rosen.format.com/)