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by contemporary343 6y ago
Reading through some of her earlier tweets there seemed to have been conflict around her/ her team pursuing a particular research direction or projects, directions that higher ups were not happy about because of how it might make Googl
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It's a great strategy! The internal economy is open because people aren't afraid to be out and about, shopping and going to sporting events, etc. Even in US states with absolutely no restrictions on indoor dining etc. there was a
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Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet(washingtonpost.com)
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A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation(buzzfeednews.com)
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The pandemic was just a ‘scamdemic’ – until truth hit home hard(dallasvoice.com)
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Thiel spends over $1M on Kris Kobach in Kansas(vox.com)
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by contemporary343 6y ago
The Silicon Valley angle: https://thewire.in/caste/cisco-caste-discrimination-silicon-... Some pretty telling comments: "The lawsuit reminded Raj, a former Cisco employee, of all the instances of casteism that he
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Harry Reid’s comments (former senate majority leader) were very similar. He undoubtedly had classified briefings on the topic but can’t state them exactly, so he couches it as ‘beliefs’ and mentions materials in the possession of defense co
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by contemporary343 6y ago
How far we have fallen from the era of Vannevar Bush to.. whatever this is.
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Keeping buildings cooler with super-white paints(techxplore.com)
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Not really: I would much rather get the coronavirus today than three months ago. And would much rather get it 6 months or a year from now than today. Survival rates are measurably improving due to both improved procedures (proning) and bett
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It has not been running rampant in Sweden, because many individuals altered their behaviors as well. Which is to say, Sweden is nowhere close to herd immunity, so it stands to lose many more lives in the future as well. So far: it has lost
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by contemporary343 6y ago
This is lunacy. Also likely will fail in court since it doesn’t follow proper procedures - something the recent Supreme Court DACA ruling pointed out. These nitwits are cruel and incompetent. But all of this has damaged America’s higher edu
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Also impressive is the general incompetence shown by the Trump campaign here - some bozo alt-righter on their social media team probably decided to do this and no one in the chain of command noticed or cared. (Or, I suppose it's possib
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by contemporary343 6y ago
It's named after his only son, who passed away from Typhoid at 15: https://facts.stanford.edu/about/
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by contemporary343 6y ago
They lost the lawsuit: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/harvard-admissions-law...
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I'm very familiar with the scope of the admissions challenge and it's not really an issue of number of applicants. Most universities already have an understanding of different high schools (though often biased to wealthier communi
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I'm a Canadian who went to an ivy for undergrad, and have always found the American attachment to the SAT a bit puzzling. I'm also puzzled at the widespread view that by removing the SAT some grave injustice or lowering in standar
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Devin Wenig (the ex-CEO) is on GM's board of directors. And.. he's up for re-election tomorrow!
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by contemporary343 6y ago
If I 'm reading this clearly, this investigation was a material factor in the CEO's departure from eBay! Crazy - he might yet be indicted since the FBI is still investigating..
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Scientists are human and prone to as many cognitive biases as anyone. As one myself, I see here an effort to contort oneself and one’s model/framework to somehow explain the data. When the data seems fairly clear that this has been a f
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by contemporary343 6y ago
"If two members of a Facebook group devoted to parenting fought about vaccinations, the moderators could establish a temporary subgroup to host the argument or limit the frequency of posting on the topic to avoid a public flame war.&qu
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Every platform ultimately makes choices in how users engage with it, whether that goal is to drive up engagement, ad revenues or whatever metric is relevant to them. My general read is that Facebook tries to message that they're "
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by contemporary343 6y ago
An interesting thought. My understanding is that the library science community has been investigating this for some time in terms of the development of ontologies and libraries to try to categorize research output. Here's a random pape
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Even in the most technically demanding and theoretical of disciplines (and in some sense, perhaps especially so) it is creativity and an ability (instinct?) to see possibilities that others don't that distinguish the best researchers.
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by contemporary343 6y ago
So that the people wiping your ass when you're 90 are well-adjusted, and intellectually and social capable, and thus have empathy and care for you in your declining years. If nothing else.
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Tesla has already started making cars again at its California factory(theverge.com)
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by contemporary343 6y ago
I am curious how Tesla employees feel about this, and more generally Musk's continuous and baffling insistence that the coronavirus is no big deal. (Heck, it seems like until and unless this wipes out > 10% of humanity it seems like
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by contemporary343 6y ago
A few pieces of context - this builds on the insight that underlies WiTricity - https://witricity.com - near-field coupling of designed resonators for non-radiative power transfer. Specifically, this can enable very high efficie
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by contemporary343 6y ago
Same with J Crew.. real value creators these PE people are

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