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How celebrity deals are shutting children's authors out of their own trade(theguardian.com)
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Ways Your API Is Not Quite What I Want(zapier.com)
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Secretive Billionaire Reveals How He Toppled Apple in China(bloomberg.com)
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Building web apps that respect a user's privacy and security(oreilly.com)
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From Instagram to TV ads, what’s the science behind food porn?(theguardian.com)
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Great idea and I wish you all the best. Assuming this becomes very successful, what effect will this have on new non-profits if most people adopt this approach? Will it make it difficult for them to raise funds?
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New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being(theguardian.com)
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How Grado Labs built a word-of-mouth marketing machine and headphones people love(stickermule.com)
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JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2017(x-team.com)
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From 'alibi' to 'mauve': what famous writers' most used words say about them(theguardian.com)
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'I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss(theregister.co.uk)
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by a_w 10y ago
How does User B obtain the password to decrypt the file? How does the key distribution part work?
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Free Ebook: Learning Bayesian Models with R(packtpub.com)
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How US school turned $15,000 into $24m with Snapchat flotation(theguardian.com)
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by a_w 10y ago
A bit more detail here[0]: '“As a general practice, neither [PayPal nor PayPal Giving Fund] notifies unregistered charities that they are holding donations for them,” the complaint states. “Instead, Defendants transfer the donations to
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‘Shell knew’: oil giant's 1991 film warned of climate change danger(theguardian.com)
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Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs?(theguardian.com)
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WEB Du Bois: retracing his attempt to challenge racism with data(theguardian.com)
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How removing self-serve cancellations saved our business(baremetrics.com)
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Unfortunately for some profit is still more important than human health or the environment [0] "Trafigura, Vitol and BP exporting dirty diesel to Africa, says Swiss NGO "Traders blend cheap fuel with sulphur levels many times the
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Want to minimize your home’s carbon footprint? Go for solar, forget the battery(arstechnica.com)
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The Codification of Web DRM as a Censorship Tool(techdirt.com)
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China's capital controls are working, bursting the global real-estate bubble(boingboing.net)
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Deep Learning at Gilt(tech.gilt.com)
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I created these as a result of playing a similar game with my 4 year old niece, and I came up with it to help here when I realized that she had difficulty distinguishing about 4 or 5 of the letters. She immediately fell in love with the gam
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Show HN: Birds Alphabet Flash Cards and Word Card Game (130 Tarot Size Bird Photos(ruti-games.myshopify.com)
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Pretty much all the articles I linked above address the same argument you are raising, they have data that says otherwise. Also interesting that I have yet to encounter the same argument when comparing the achievements of African Americans
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by a_w 10y ago
I don't know. I have personally been told by good meaning friends that 'but you are different from African Americans' by other ethnic groups when I was in Engineering grad school. Also on your point regarding variance in inte
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I don't think you can exclude 'racism' as the main or contributing factor in the achievement gap. African immigrants grow up believing that they are just as intelligent as the rest of the world and are free from the constant
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by a_w 10y ago
Here is an even more extensive study on the academic achievements of African immigrants and their descendants in the U.S. and U.K. [0] If anything, the research demonstrates that the Igbo from Nigeria are exceptionally successful - more hig

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