Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’
Italian economists find access to books can materially affect earnings compared with those who grew up with few or none
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Posted on 2016-05-30T00:47:13+0000
We need to challenge the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators
In this article Andrew Sayer revives some concepts – ‘unearned income’, ‘rentiers’, ‘functionless investors’, and ‘improperty’ – to explain why the very rich are unjust and dysfunctiona…
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Posted on 2016-05-29T17:15:25+0000
Backreaction: The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what’s science – and...
Where do we draw the boundary between science and pseudoscience? It’s is a question philosophers have debated for as long as there’s been science – and last time I looked they hadn’t made much progress. When you ask a sociologist their answer is normally a variant of: Science is what scientists do.…
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Posted on 2016-05-28T05:50:09+0000
I’m a black man. Here’s what happened when I booked an Airbnb. — Stay Woke
This is a story of an AIRBNB experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook Group. Super nice lady…
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"So I had a white friend book for my same dates and all of a sudden her plans changed back hahaha. Approved immediately! LOL"
Ouch
Posted on 2016-05-28T04:54:37+0000
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever
A computer cracks the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem — but is it really maths?
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Posted on 2016-05-27T08:41:43+0000
The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort. CDC chief says this could mean "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
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Posted on 2016-05-27T08:39:03+0000
This industry helps Chinese cheat their way into & through US colleges
A cheating ring at the University of Iowa demonstrates the damage being done by a booming Chinese cottage industry to the U.S. higher education system.
Krister Walfridsson's blog: Type-based aliasing in C
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Posted on 2016-05-23T18:08:57+0000
A controversial theory may explain the real reason humans have allergies
Allergies may have evolved as a way of protecting our ancestors by flushing out toxic chemicals.
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Super exciting to hear a fresh view on allergies. I need to look this guy up.
"For now, however, Medzhitov would just be happy to get people to stop seeing allergies as a disease, despite the misery they cause. “You’re sneezing to protect yourself. The fact that you don’t like the sneezing, that’s tough luck,” he said, with a slight shrug. “Evolution doesn’t care how you feel.”"
Posted on 2016-05-23T15:35:13+0000
Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron - ACM Queue
Q: Dear Tom: A few years ago we automated a major process in our system administration team. Now the system is impossible to debug. Nobody remembers the old manual process and the automation is beyond what any of us can understand. We feel like we've painted ourselves into a corner. Is all operation...
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Posted on 2016-05-23T07:27:24+0000