To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and NowFocusing on core competence and outsourcing the rest has made U.S. companies lean, nimble and productive. It has also left lots of people worse off.SHAREShare on FacebookPost on TwitterEmailLog in to SaveRead La...
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Great read on how all the companies are now relying on outsourced and contract labor
"Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company, and she has had a long career since as a senior executive at other top companies. Ms. Ramos sees the only advancement possibility as becoming a team leader keeping tabs on a few other janitors, which pays an extra 50 cents an hour."
Posted on 2017-09-03T23:53:51+0000
Opinion | Don’t Suspend Students. Empathize.
Contributing Op-Ed WriterDon’t Suspend Students. Empathize.SHAREShare on FacebookPost on TwitterEmailLog in to SaveRead Laterhttps://nyti.ms/2xGcz9AShare on LinkedInShare on WhatsappShare on Google PlusShare on RedditShareCancelAidan KochSeptember 2, 2017David L. KirpTo his teachers at Ridgeway High...
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Posted on 2017-09-03T23:53:05+0000
Wealth: redistribution and interest rates
The most interesting scientific projects are those that surprise, when the mathematics, or the code, tells us something we didn’t expect. In our study of US wealth dynamics that’s what …
Rental Camera Gear Destroyed by the Solar Eclipse of 2017
We recently had quite a spectacle in the United States, with a Solar Eclipse reaching totality throughout a large portion of the United States. Being that this was the first solar eclipse passing through the Continental US since 1979, excitement ran wild on capturing this natural event using the bes...
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Posted on 2017-09-03T04:48:13+0000
U.S. Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs
Many employers complain about not being able to find workers with the right skills, but experts says some of these employers aren't trying very hard.
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""They're just asking for the moon, and not expecting to pay very much for it," Cappelli says. "And as a result they [can't] find those people. Now that [doesn't] mean there was nobody to do the job; it just [means] that there was nobody at the price they were willing to pay.""
Posted on 2017-09-02T03:42:50+0000
Researchers taught AI to write totally believable fake reviews, and the implications are terrifying
The tech could be a major threat to companies like Amazon and Yelp.
Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree - ACM Queue
If you've read about bitcoin in the press and have some familiarity with academic research in the field of cryptography, you might reasonably come away with the following impression: Several decades' worth of research on digital cash, beginning with David Chaum,10,12 did not lead to commercial succe...
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A great technical read on academic research and Bitcoin.
"Academia seems to have the opposite problem, at least in this instance: a resistance to radical, extrinsic ideas. The bitcoin white paper, despite the pedigree of many of its ideas, was more novel than most academic research. Moreover, Nakamoto didn't care for academic peer review and didn't fully connect it to its history. As a result, academics essentially ignored bitcoin for several years. Many academic communities informally argued that Bitcoin couldn't work, based on theoretical models or experiences with past systems, despite the fact that it was working in practice."
Posted on 2017-08-31T06:26:35+0000
A Tale of Two Industries: How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries - Stack Overflow Blog
Here at Stack Overflow, we’re interested in using our data to share insights about the worldwide software development community. This recent post on the distribution of mobile developers is a good example: it explored traffic to Android questions from around the world, and found that Android tended…
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Posted on 2017-08-30T05:50:26+0000
My IRB Nightmare
[Epistemic status: Partly pieced together from memory years after the event. I may have misremembered some things or gotten them in the wrong order. Other than that, everything – aside from t…
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Interesting read on inefficient bureaucracy
"4. The woman in the corner office who kept insisting everybody take the Pre-Study Training…hadn’t taken the Pre-Study Training, and was therefore unqualified to be our liaison with the IRB. I swear I am not making this up."
Posted on 2017-08-30T04:27:16+0000
Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
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Posted on 2017-08-29T04:50:12+0000