In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas
Universities, rather than being forums for free expression, are encouraging “safe spaces” to protect delicate sensibilities.
Hasnain says:
"Safe spaces are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college students, that their schools should keep them from being “bombarded” by discomfiting or distressing viewpoints. Think of the safe space as the live-action version of the better-known trigger warning, a notice put on top of a syllabus or an assigned reading to alert students to the presence of potentially disturbing material."
I can understand needing and having safe places, but if we all went to our safe places every single time, we would never solve the underlying problems
Posted on 2015-03-22T18:12:45+0000
The Decline of Vancouver
Vancouver, once a city with its own unique spin on Canadian ideals and culture, is well on its way to becoming a vacation city for the world’s rich, its economy transforming into one predicated almost...
Hasnain says:
"We’ve reached an almost criminal point of misinformation and political correctness. Picture an elephant in the room. This elephant has a large bed sheet poorly covering half its body. Most in the room say “hey look it’s an elephant.” Property owners say “no, we can’t be sure it’s an elephant, there’s a bed sheet covering part of it”. Politicians say “we can’t be sure it’s an elephant, we need to study it more”. And developers say “we did a survey and concluded it’s a hamster.” "
Posted on 2015-03-22T18:06:35+0000
David Graeber: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’
The books interview: The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play
John Urschel, Ravens Offensive Lineman, Publishes Math Paper
"A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians" was published in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. It's not Urschel's first paper.
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Posted on 2015-03-21T17:12:51+0000
Google Just Fixed One of Wi-Fi's Biggest Annoyances | WIRED
With the new Android 5.1 update, which began rolling out yesterday in the U.S., your phone will remember which networks you attempt to connect with have crappy Wi-Fi.
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Posted on 2015-03-21T17:11:33+0000
Silicon Valley’s Sex Workers Are Being Priced Out of the City By Their Own Clients
An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing them to take side jobs—like driving for Uber—or leave.
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Posted on 2015-03-21T02:57:47+0000
Rationality: From AI to Zombies - Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called “the Sequences.” With two days remaining until Yudkowsky concludes his other well-known rationality book, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rat…
Optimizing performance on low end devices
One of the hardest parts of building for Android is making your app work well on all phones. While device fragmentation often brings forth concerns on design, the bigger struggle will be behind the...
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Posted on 2015-03-21T02:13:22+0000
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Elon Musk Says Self-Driving Tesla Cars Will Be in the U.S. by Summer
The automaker’s chief says a software update will allow the Model S to navigate streets without the driver’s touching the wheel or pedals.
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Posted on 2015-03-20T06:10:40+0000