A Weird MIT Dorm Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges
MIT’s Senior House was a haven for creative outsiders. Adminstrators said it was dangerous and shut it down.
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"One way they get through it is by depending on their dorm families. “I can’t tell you how many times I heard that Senior House saved a student’s life,” Feldmeier says. He points out that despite MIT’s high suicide rates—12.6 per 100,000 students in the years between 2010 and 2015 (the national collegiate average is 7.5)—Senior House hasn’t had a suicide in more than 20 years."
Posted on 2017-09-11T15:23:53+0000
The React license for founders and CTOs – James Ide – Medium
A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD+Patents license. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, nor is this legal advice.
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Posted on 2017-09-11T03:50:30+0000
The Equifax Breach Exposes America's Identity Crisis
It's time to rethink the Social Security number's ubiquity.
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Posted on 2017-09-10T18:03:16+0000
Equifax Lobbied To Kill Rule Protecting Victims Of Data Breaches
The credit reporting company that exposed 143 million people's private data to hackers has lobbied for the right to block consumers from suing.
The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000.
The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000.For five-figure annual fees, boutique medical services offer the wealthiest Americans the chance to cut the line and receive the best treatment.By NELSON D. SCHWARTZJune 3, 2017Chris B. MurrayThe Velvet Rope EconomyThe Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000.SHAREShare on Fac...
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Posted on 2017-09-10T00:58:19+0000
‘A disaster in the making’: Pakistan’s population surges to 207.7 million
Poverty, illiteracy and religious beliefs have hampered birth-control efforts.
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Posted on 2017-09-09T20:19:27+0000
Games aren’t always fair, the magic lies in making you think they are
Behind the scenes with the neuroscience of game design
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Posted on 2017-09-09T17:08:13+0000
Equifax's dox of America: Sign up for "free" monitoring, get billed forever
Equifax dumped dox on 143 million Americans (as well as lucky Britons and Canadians!), sat on the news for five weeks, let its execs sell millions in stock, and then unveiled an unpatched, insecure…
Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You | Kalzumeus Software
Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You September 09, 2017 in life-advice , offtopic This is outside my usual brief, but one of my hobbies is that I used to ghostwrite letters to credit reporting agencies and banks. It is suddenly relevant after the Equifax breach, so I’m writing down what I know to...
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Best article on the whole Equifax matter and what to do.
"Mean words cannot hurt a bank. Threats cannot hurt a bank. Paper trails, though, are terrifying to regulated institutions. Your bank’s customer support representatives are taught to evaluate whether someone looks like they’re competent and collecting a paper trail. If they are, the CS rep is supposed to stop touching the case immediately and instead escalate them to a supervisor or to the legal department."
Posted on 2017-09-09T16:31:42+0000
Opinion | What the Rich Won’t Tell You
“There’s nobody who knows how much we spend. You’re the only person I ever said those numbers to out loud.”
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Really interesting and engrossing read.
"When I used the word “affluent” in an email to a stay-at-home mom with a $2.5 million household income, a house in the Hamptons and a child in private school, she almost canceled the interview, she told me later. Real affluence, she said, belonged to her friends who traveled on a private plane."
Posted on 2017-09-09T00:31:08+0000