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by 40acres 8y ago
Facebook scooping up Instagram has to be one of the best corporate acquisitions over the past 20 years. Hindsight is 20/20 but it makes sense that a simpler social network like Snapchat and Instagram would be a threat to Facebook once
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by 40acres 8y ago
I see more and more parents out there with cargo bikes in Portland, especially no with young kids. Personally the risk is not the reward for me...
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by 40acres 8y ago
Americans in general are having less babies. Last year more non-white babies were born than white babies, and due to the opiod crisis the white life expectancy went down while it's rising for other groups. America is in the early stage
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by 40acres 8y ago
I don't think tech can crack education. All the iPads in the world couldn't replace a good teacher and good environment. We need to better support teachers over anything else. If all the money that was raised for the school went t
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by 40acres 8y ago
I don't think so. In the western world I wouldn't be shocked if the numbers have crept up in the past few decades and will continue to do so -- but there are billions of people in the non western world and others who just prefer m
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by 40acres 8y ago
Voice interfaces have huge potential. I think the potential for a truly amazing voice interface / AI (think JARVIS from Iron Man) outweighs the potential of hardware.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Solid choice. He's a brilliant guy and obviously has deep knowledge of current flaws in out system.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Why was this flagged? This is the second story I've noticed this week on diversity in tech that was an early top 10 link and then got flagged.
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by 40acres 8y ago
I don't think anything will come of this, Intel I think has a pretty good cover. Internally it's no secret that one of the big criteria were the results of your most recent performance evaluation. If you received a certain stock g
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by 40acres 8y ago
Can't wait the apology commercial.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Trust me, NIMBY white folk won't stop dog whistling just because they are on a platform run by Google.
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by 40acres 8y ago
This actually makes me concerned, I eat pork a lot. Pork chops are a high protein, relatively cheap, quick to make, and tasty meal. I'm also African American so there is a greater risk...
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by 40acres 8y ago
Okay, but where can I get it?
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by 40acres 8y ago
Sounds like a UI/UX problem to me.. I have prime & don't really do third party shipping and I've had no problems of this sort.
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by 40acres 8y ago
What's the difference between this and auto complete? I think there is a bit of overreacting here.
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by 40acres 8y ago
In principal gentrification is fine, in practice its usually a mess. I'm from Brooklyn, which is definitely gentrified by any means. It's nice that property values are up, new businesses are booming, and crime is down -- but there
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by 40acres 9y ago
High volume in this case indicates that the product has reach a high level of quality in terms of defects per million and yield. 10nm is probably in the customer sampling phase, HVM means you can go to Best buy and get a 10nm laptop.
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by 40acres 9y ago
> Could it be the knowledge of the history that's holding blacks back? If everyone somehow forgot Jim Crow and slavery, would the next generation of blacks do as well as immigrants, do you think? Forgetting Jim Crow and slavery is n
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by 40acres 9y ago
> For all that went wrong for blacks, they generally didn't flee on boats with only the shirts on their backs after witnessing a quarter of the people that they grew up with being killed. Only to land in a country where they didn&#x
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by 40acres 9y ago
I think historical and present discrimination explains the gap, but I would say that the historical discrimination plays a bigger role because it has had time to "compound". My general defense against the "what about other mi
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by 40acres 9y ago
Like I said earlier: I'm not sure what kind of variables you'd like to include within this variance but I'd LOVE to to hear any suggestions.
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by 40acres 9y ago
Totally agreed. I'm not trying to downplay the history of other groups in America as so much as highlighting the unique challenges that have affected black America. The US enacted a law banning Chinese.. The state I live in (Oregon) ex
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by 40acres 9y ago
> If a similar minority group can start from a worse position (not even knowing the language!) and advance to a better position in a single generation, then your single variable is lacking. I can't agree with this sentence. I agree,
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by 40acres 9y ago
> And yet, look where they are today versus blacks. How did that happen? Generally I don't like to compare the struggles amongst minorities in America. There is a multitude of factors that come into play when analyzing these types o
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by 40acres 9y ago
Thanks for this. I've been really interested in learning about housing policy and trends lately & wanted to come across a podcast about it.
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by 40acres 9y ago
This is a tricky question for me to answer because I've been doing more research on the "back end" aka why minorities weren't getting housing as opposed to what's happening now w/ re-urbanization. Part of it is
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by 40acres 9y ago
> Is the “dream” of homeownership really just a massive, intergenerational wealth transfer? Yes & it has been this way since the inception of government backed loans. I've recently been digging into the history of housing discri
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by 40acres 9y ago
I'm of an opposite mind. The tech world has known about these issues for years and nothing has happened. When the Verge or Wired write about these privacy issues the outside world really is not of much concern. But when the NYT and W
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The Case for Reparations (2014)(theatlantic.com)
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by 40acres 9y ago
This reminds me of a point well made in Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One'. Monopolies make it seem like they have a lot of competitors to avoid anti-trust and companies that are in a dog fight like to make it seem like they are mon

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