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Posted on 2018-11-24T17:41:32+0000

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Posted on 2018-11-24T03:20:12+0000

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This was pretty interesting

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“On Black Friday, our shifts were short because the work was tiring. Except Chetan’s, which was 12 hours long. The week after, we got holiday bonuses in cash. It’s almost as if there’s really no need to treat workers like dirt on Black Friday or ever, and bosses who say they have no choice are lying.”

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“Simply put, financial planners (at least those quoted by CNBC) fail at having even the most basic understanding of the reality of working-class millennials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the voters who put her in office.”

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This was such a great read. Very relatable

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"As artists, our concerts highlighting marginalized voices, our targeted awards, our identity-based approaches are only going to go so far if we keep working within the current system. We need to be advocating for more far-reaching solutions. Primarily, we need to fight for free tuition for all higher education and single-payer healthcare. These are solutions that free not only artists but all people from the major financial burdens that derail those living paycheck to paycheck and prevent them from moving forward toward their goals."

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I always think about doing something in the procedural generation space but then I see stuff like this and feel so outclassed it’s not even funny.

Really cool work - the algorithm is something I’ve looked up in the past and - while it has a super fancy name - is super cool

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This is about childbirth, not fertility, but yes

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Posted on 2018-11-10T20:28:01+0000

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Posted on 2018-11-09T05:02:57+0000

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Posted on 2018-11-09T04:59:31+0000

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“Now, Houston and Pantone, joined by Vince Vatter of the University of Florida in Gainesville, have written up the formal argument. In their paper, they list the first author as “Anonymous 4chan Poster.”

“It’s a weird situation that this very elegant proof of something that wasn’t previously known was posted in such an unlikely place,” Houston said.”

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“By the time the pandemic finally ended, it had killed around 25 times more people than any other flu outbreak in history. It killed possibly more people than the first and second world wars put together. As Laura Spinney puts it in her new book, Pale Rider – the best modern account of the Spanish flu crisis – “the flu resculpted human populations more radically than anything since the Black Death”. Think about that. Not the western front, not Hitler’s invasion of Russia, not Hiroshima. But the flu.

In the face of such figures, it seems unbelievable that we forget or look away. Yet we do. Perhaps that is because, unlike equality for women, a disease has no ultimate prize to win and celebrate. Perhaps it is because, while wars have victors, pandemics leave only the vanquished, as Spinney puts it. Perhaps too, as the critic Walter Benjamin once argued, silences about public horrors can permit human societies to cope with collective recovery and to progress. Or perhaps, as Spinney also reflects, the Spanish flu has been consigned to the footnotes because its onslaught did not occur in public but in private, behind closed doors in millions of homes.”

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Posted on 2018-11-04T17:37:10+0000

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Great tweet storm / thread on how far Microsoft goes with backwards compatibility, and a segue into the history of computing

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Posted on 2018-11-04T02:52:56+0000

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Clickbait title - great read though

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“Arguably, it is not so much “taste” that determines the value of collectibles, but more the way that human beings actually live their lives. Economists have noted how the wealth of the middle class in developed countries has declined over the last 30 years. This has inevitably had an impact on the value of lower-range collectibles. So, too, has the way that members of the middle class use their homes.”

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“BEIJING — The young applicant is described as confident and courageous. His résumé, at 15 pages, is glittering, complete with performance reviews (“full of energy”), a map of his travels (trips to Tokyo and Bali) and a list of books he has read this year (408 in total).

But the applicant is not a seasoned job seeker. He is a 5-year-old boy from southern China applying for a spot in first grade at a Shanghai private school.”

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Interesting take backed by data

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"Pakistani liberals are asking the government and the army to go and crush the mullahs and take the country back. It might be more useful to go after these blasphemy laws that seem to be turning all of us into blasphemers."

Brave callout at the end, especially given this earlier in the article, for those who aren't aware:

"The governor of Punjab Province, Salman Taseer, visited her in prison and promised to lobby for a presidential pardon. He was assassinated by one of his police bodyguards who believed the governor had committed blasphemy by questioning the country’s blasphemy laws. The Pakistani media was understanding. Of the bodyguard’s feelings."