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Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See(motherjones.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
I found this part particularly interesting: > By morning, he had deciphered a complete, previously unknown Arabian zodiac. “We’d thought that they were place names, and, in a way, they were,” he told me. “They were places in the sky.”
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> But by the time a candidate is passed a phone screen that’s a validated lead. A company that was really desperate to hire wouldn’t treat validated leads so poorly. They certainly shouldn't treat validated leads poorly, but we&#x
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There's one specific problem with tech hiring that generally doesn't get a mention and maybe should: HR hiring staff apparently has a really high rate of turnover, especially among contract sourcers and recruiters (and it seems li
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> That makes very little sense for software jobs, where it's the workers that are scarce. The thing that is not scarce from the recruiters' view is applicants or maybe even resumes . This is because anyone looking for a j
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Goodbye, Kepler Space Telescope(gizmodo.com)
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Platypus venom: painful, immediate, long-lasting, impervious to painkillers(slate.com)
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Centauri Dreams can be highly speculative at times but it definitely does not do clickbait. Note that the title on that article is actually "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails". I suppose it might have been different when submi
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14,000-Year-Old Piece of Bread Rewrites the History of Baking and Farming(npr.org)
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How Industrial-Scale Tar Production Powered the Viking Age(gizmodo.com)
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Massive Cloud Forming Over One of Mars' Biggest Volcanoes Is Icy Water Vapor(gizmodo.com)
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This Cube-Shaped Timer Is the Only Thing That Helps Me Avoid Twitter(nymag.com)
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Having now read the whole Wikipedia article I can say it was way more interesting than I expected at first.
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Is Indiana Jones a good archeologist or are there things he isn’t doing right?(reddit.com)
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New Theory Explains Why Europe's Original Dogs Vanished(gizmodo.com)
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Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’(nytimes.com)
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I'm skeptical about the idea of dropping astronauts into the Venusian atmosphere and then trying to get them out again. On the other hand I think maybe you could make a case for a manned Venus flyby mission. This would allow for tel
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One thing that is important to understand is that the income tax only makes up about 50% of federal revenue. The next major source of revenue? Payroll tax. Income tax is a progressive tax. Payroll tax is definitely not progressive. A
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King County Metro (Seattle) had a system like this back around 2003. Interestingly enough they did not have GPS on the buses, they'd simply instrumented the trip meter which was plenty good enough since buses were (usually) running al
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Is Global Warming a Significant Contributor to Washington State Wildfires?(cliffmass.blogspot.com)
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Neanderthals Survived in Ice Age Europe Thanks to Effective Healthcare(gizmodo.com)
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We haven't really colonized Antarctica either, but there's been a permanent human presence there since the 1940s or 1950s. Similarly, I don't know if it makes sense to colonize Mars, but I think it makes absolute sense to hav
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FBI solves mystery surrounding 15-year-old Fruitfly Mac malware(zdnet.com)
97 points by curtis 8y ago|51 comments
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> > Clearly the way to close the wage gap is to get women to stop having kids. > That’s one way, the basis of the rest of this comment is then predicated on this being the only way, and as such only has to deal with this. Did you c
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We're thinking about the problem all wrong. Clearly the way to close the wage gap is to get women to stop having kids. Of course I'm not serious, but then I personally don't care if there is a wage gap as long as it is not b
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I was confused by the diagram as well. And it's only after reading your comment that I discovered there were lines of two different colors!
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What is eBPF? https://qmonnet.github.io/whirl-offload/2016/09/01/dive-into...
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Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017)(nbcnews.com)
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> Accounting for housing costs, California has nation’s highest poverty rate I assume that the underlying study breaks the population down into quintiles or deciles based on income and then looks at spending on housing for each group,
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Surprisingly, tunnels have very good earthquake resistance. See http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/Status/Blog/tunnels... .

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