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Is College Tuition Really Too High?
The answer depends on what you mean by college.
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Posted on 2015-09-10T06:20:17+0000
Inside Popcorn Time – the world's fastest growing piracy site
Popcorn Time, the piracy service that has put Hollywood in emergency mode, started in Buenos Aires, in Federico Abad's (29) bedroom.
Hasnain says:
"– I am convinced that the Popcorn Time-killer is going to be a Netflix without borders. They should remove national restrictions for films, making them available in cinemas and in streaming services simultaneously everywhere, regardless of platform for phone, tablet and TV, wherever you want, with subtitles. Had they done so, it would kill Popcorn Time once and for all, Abad says."
Posted on 2015-09-09T17:06:44+0000
Google in Kansas City: A tale of two-speed America - FT.com
Earlier this year, Marcelo Vergara, an app developer in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, lost two members of staff, fired the company that maintains his servers and started hunting for smaller premises. It might sound as if his company, Propaganda3,
Hasnain says:
"It is a story shared by countless nearby towns. Ferguson, famous for the police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager last year, is a three-hour drive away. Even now, the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are effectively segregated, with almost all white children at private schools. Just nine per cent of pupils in the state system are white. Almost 90 per cent are on free lunches."
Posted on 2015-09-09T15:33:59+0000
The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues
Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” as well as “The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class” and “How schools ruined [……
Hasnain says:
It's pretty crazy how pervasive the rat race has gotten
Posted on 2015-09-09T15:24:09+0000
TSA Master Keys - Schneier on Security
TSA Master Keys Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys. It's now blurred out of the Washington Post story, but the image is still floating around the Internet. The whole thing neatly illustrates one of th…
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Posted on 2015-09-08T15:38:51+0000
I have one of the best jobs in academia. Here's why I'm walking away.
I graduated college at 19. I landed a tenure-track job at 29. Now I'm quitting academia for good.
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Posted on 2015-09-08T15:25:13+0000
Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection
Kathryn DeWitt had put on her Penn Face. But living up to expectations — her own and others’ — was just too much. Dying seemed the only way out. It wasn’t.
Hasnain says:
"Correction: August 2, 2015
An article on Page 14 this weekend about student mental health on campus misstated the suicide rate among 15- to 24-year-olds. It was 11.1 deaths per 100,000 in 2013 and 9.6 in 2007, not 11.1 percent and 9.6 percent."
That's a big typo to make
Posted on 2015-09-08T05:10:09+0000
Fixing Twitter • Dustin Curtis
Tech analyst Startup L. Jackson believes that Twitter’s Product is Fucking Fine and that the company’s next CEO needs to simply give the current team some room to get stuff done. No. I think Twitter badly needs to do at least five things to... | Dustin Curtis | Villain.
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Posted on 2015-09-08T04:18:29+0000
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Welcome to Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (now version 0.90 -- see book news for details), a free online operating systems book! The book is centered around three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence. In understanding the con…
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Posted on 2015-09-08T01:51:31+0000