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by cassieramen 11y ago
While the loss of languages is certainly hard to stomach, the biggest detriment to society is that is often signifies the loss of information. One common language used globally dramatically decreases the chances of information getting lost.
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Seems like Starbucks good fortunes are tied to Keurig's bad ones. As disposable income creeps up again people are less interested in at home brewing. I'm a little relieved after all the environmental issues with Keurigs. https:&#
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by cassieramen 11y ago
This reminds me of another Atlantic article, In Defense of Gentrification. Essentially, Syracuse has segregated itself by income level. Areas with a high density of poverty continue to suffer. The gentrification of neighborhoods generally e
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I'd love to see more towns turning to solutions like these: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-... The internet providers are just as bad as the railroads. The have too much powe
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"We were trying to do a boldly cutting edge Natural Language Processing startup, but without a top-notch Natural Language Processing expert." Of the many, many, many management problems present in this article, this seems like the
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by cassieramen 11y ago
It's always interesting to think about the key moments in a start-up's life. Those ride or die moments that lead to great success or losing the Jonas Brother. I wonder how many a startup gets? How many are created by action or by
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by cassieramen 11y ago
Why didn't Kodak pivot to digital cameras when it invented them in 1975? Why didn't Barnes and Noble move into the online retailing business in the late 90's? Fear of cannibalizing your own business. Shaking the status quo. O
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by cassieramen 11y ago
This is awesome! I'm happy the college score card data is being used for great project like this.
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Does anyone know of a good diy college ranking system? One where you can pick that factors that actually matter to you. I'm always happy to see options other than U.S. News but I'd love to be able to tweak the algorithm myself. I
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I am very confused as to what the value proposition for venmo's social feature is. It's super creepy that by default someone can know all this information about me. This just leads to creepy podcast fodder: https://giml
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Michael Booth talks about Finland's schools in his book, "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia." He points out that in Finland the most revered and treasured profession is teaching. The
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Obama Releases Average Debt and Earnings Data for Every University in America(collegescorecard.ed.gov)
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Tamagotchis meet Exercise(gettep.com)
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This policy is in regard to the police officer. If the officer shoots someone and is investigated, evidence of prior crimes the police officer committed can not be prosecuted. It certainly doesn't apply to normal citizens. That's
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by cassieramen 11y ago
Some of these policies are insane. http://www.joincampaignzero.org/contracts "prevent investigators from pursuing other cases of misconduct revealed during an investigation" Who does that protect? That's like
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End Police Violence in America(joincampaignzero.org)
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How can that and "we find that ideas that elicit more positive evaluations are significantly more likely to ultimately reach commercialization" coexist? They are also working off 652 ventures coming out of MIT. Seems like a small
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Something is rotten at food startup Hampton Creek, former employees say. From unethical business practices to poor management, seems like science has fallen by the wayside.
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This is a great argument for having a data scientist or other statistician run your marketing department. Tech is really changing the way people think about marketing expertise. What counted 10 or even 5 years ago is quickly growing irrelev
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by cassieramen 11y ago
Rent control has been tried in so many different American cities and by and large is considered a failure in any city it is implemented. I would love to see a city try a radically different tactic. Minneapolis requires a certain amount of l