World's Most Profitable Flights: This Airline Route Makes $1 Billion Annually
The list of the world's top-earning flights might surprise you.
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Posted on 2018-07-08T02:29:17+0000
Eating for Peace - Issue 62: Systems - Nautilus
It’s a cold evening in New York City and I’m making Nepalese donuts. Or, I should say, Rachana Rimal, a cheerful woman with a…
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"Clarke says the same thing could go for food. A culture may seem unfamiliar to a person, but after that person discovers the way people from an unfamiliar culture “prepare their food, the way they eat, somehow they understand it. There’s link between you and them, and that gives you insight.”
Food alone, though, is often not enough to complete the trip to another culture. The journey needs other people."
Posted on 2018-07-07T20:50:31+0000
How ice cream made America - The Boston Globe
The history of the nation’s favorite frozen dessert is also the history of the nation itself: a triumph of ingenuity, technology, and mass marketing.
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“In 1921, The Soda Fountain, a monthly trade magazine to the soda industry, published an article touting “Ice Cream as Americanization Aid,” declaring that serving ice cream to on Ellis Island would help them acquire “a taste for the characteristic American dish even before they set foot in the streets of New York.” This would not only help new immigrants assimilate to the American “standard of living,” but it would also inculcate American values: “Who could imagine a man who is genuinely fond of ice cream becoming a Bolshevik? Even strawberry ice cream would arouse no latent anarchistic tendencies, while vanilla or peach would be soothing to the very reddest of the Reds. There is as yet no record of a dangerous plot being hatched over a dish of ice cream; the temperature is too low to promote incubation.””
Posted on 2018-07-07T06:59:59+0000
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors
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Posted on 2018-07-07T06:00:14+0000
Say Hello to Full Employment
Want to know where the economy is headed? Look at Des Moines.
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Posted on 2018-07-06T22:59:43+0000
One of history's greatest philosophers thought work makes you a worse person
We used to think work made you less moral. Judeo-Christianity changed the perspective: now, “all work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work alone is noble."
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“When people emphasize just how overworked they are today, they’re not simply complaining of burdens, they’re also signaling their diligence and good standing in this moral economy. As Graeber shows, this notion is inherently Judeo-Christian. But, though 2,000 years of religious teaching have solidified this credence, Aristotle saw things differently. The theory that working hard signifies morality is widely-accepted but, ultimately, far from objectively true, and there’s no reason we should continue to buy into this belief.”
Posted on 2018-07-05T22:19:54+0000
Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
Telephone culture is disappearing.
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Posted on 2018-07-05T20:23:21+0000
NetBSD Blog
A sanitizer is a special type of addition to a compiled program, and is included from a toolchain (LLVM or GCC). There are a few types of sanitizers. Their usual purposes are: bug detecting, profiling, and security hardening.
"I-Cut-You-Choose" Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering - News - Carnegie Mellon University
CMU researchers say getting political parties to equitably draw congressional district boundaries can be as easy as sharing cake.
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Posted on 2018-07-05T03:50:05+0000
Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income?
It has enthusiasts on both the left and the right. Maybe that’s the giveaway.
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Posted on 2018-07-04T03:18:28+0000