After Jobs Dry Up, What Then?
Economic growth, even where it looks impressive, seems to be creating fewer jobs than in the past, and for the most part, poorly paid ones.
Hasnain says:
" For now, though, politicians have mostly kept quiet about the prospect of a structural shortage of decently paid jobs."
Posted on 2015-03-24T15:23:57+0000
Bug 1202858 – restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*)
bugzilla.redhat.com
Hasnain says:
"Actual results:
All files are deleted on the machine.
Expected results:
Squid is restarted."
Free Non-Commercial RenderMan
RenderMan is now free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The non-commercial version of RenderMan is fully functional without watermark or limitation. For further details please refer to Pixar's Non-Commercial RenderMan FAQ.
Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle: Daily news from Cornell University
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Posted on 2015-03-24T01:45:14+0000
Don’t let AT&T mislead you about its $29 “privacy fee”
This week AT&T got a lot of media attention for its expansion of its GigaPower service to Kansas City announced on Monday. The news wasn’t so much about the expansion, but about the ISP’s plans to to offer a $29 per month discount for customers who let Ma Bell scan their web searches in exchange…
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Posted on 2015-03-22T18:27:29+0000
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