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Too Old to Commit Crime? (2015)(nytimes.com)
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Uber’s IPO Prospectus Overstates Its 2018 Profit Improvement by $5B(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Feedback's Hidden Development Message (1998)(tcrf.net)
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Statement from NPM(medium.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
> One reason that Europe has very few innovative new companies created in the last 25 years is that everyone is at the coffee shop writing poetry. This does not dispute the central point of the quoted piece, which is that the quality of
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by cribbles 8y ago
The street litter win cannot be understated. Little black bodega bags are a plague on New York's streets.
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End of Operation of Wow Air(wowair.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
Nearly 95 percent of public schools had lockdown drills as of 2015-16.[1] I don't know anyone who's been through one either, but I'm an adult, and our generation just missed the cutoff. [1] https://nces.ed.gov&#x2F
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Other People’s Blood: On Paul Voelker(nplusonemag.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
The UNC scandal’s beneficiaries were athletes from predominately lower-to-middle class backgrounds. They weren’t competing for the same post-grad jobs and internships as the general applicant pool. They were on an athletic track whose post-
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The Other Kind of Climate Denialism(newyorker.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
>Transfer this to the "real world", and see how it plays out This isn't the real world though. This is, tentatively, "pattern match on videos uploaded by non-verified creators with little or no uploaded content, featu
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by cribbles 8y ago
This assumes the higher-paying jobs would have gone to the district's representatives, instead of to out-of-town yuppies. I am open to being contracted on this, but my assumption is that Amazon's HQ2 would not have primarily creat
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On the built-in instability of cryptocurrencies(voxeu.org)
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Smoked Out(lrb.co.uk)
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Decree 770(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cribbles 8y ago
The quasi-intensifier "just" is used to similar effect. I wouldn't call it editorializing - more like an attempt to give the quotidian a sense of urgency.
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The Reason Stock Buybacks Are a Problem(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks(nytimes.com)
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Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion(voxeu.org)
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by cribbles 8y ago
> there is solid evidence of plenty of fraud on the last election In fact, there isn't. If there is, please provide supporting evidence. Since we're on the subject of the New York Times, here[1] is the closest example I can fin
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Munchery's small business vendors are picking up the bill(techcrunch.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
Instacart delivery workers are classified as independent contractors, which allows the company to flout basic labor laws. This is commonplace in digital age 'gig economy' jobs, but dates back to the early days of food delivery - e
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by cribbles 8y ago
You are an extreme outlier. American workers have on average nearly half as many vacation days as are legally mandated in the EU,[1] while EU member states have more public holidays than the United States. [1] https://en.m.wikipe
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by cribbles 8y ago
From 2014, still germane: https://www.drop-dropbox.com/
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by cribbles 8y ago
See also Mic,[1] which laid off its entire editorial staff in response to the formation of a union (but prior to a contract being signed). For counterexamples, see Vice,[2] which negotiated a nearly 30% pay hike in their first union contrac
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BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers(techcrunch.com)
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by cribbles 8y ago
This code wouldn't execute properly, since arrow functions are scoped to the surrounding code block and cannot be rebound. You would need to use `function` for this: function getFoo() { return this.foo; }
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Beware the permanent exclusive(washingtonpost.com)
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Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism (2008)(monthlyreview.org)
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