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by eroo 12y ago
https://www.edx.org/AWS-activate is the source and it's a minimum $50 contribution for the requisite "verified" certificate.
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by eroo 12y ago
Note: a "verified certificate" is necessary. This requires a minimum $50 contribution.
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Get $1000 of AWS when you earn a certificate in Entrepreneurship 101 or 102(edx.org)
10 points by eroo 12y ago|2 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
>>"Enter the agents. Solomon describes himself as an equalizer. In creative industries, he told me, 'there’s always this pattern that the creatives start out at the bottom of the food chain and are exploited.'" Eve
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Is Spotify the music industry’s friend or its foe?(newyorker.com)
31 points by eroo 12y ago|50 comments
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The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent(newyorker.com)
374 points by eroo 12y ago|216 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
[1] is starting next week and I was considering spending time on it. I'd really appreciate any feedback from those who have taken it!
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by eroo 12y ago
[Edit] PLEASE DONT DELETE YOUR REPLY IF PEOPLE ARE GIVING THOUGHTFUL FOLLOW-UPS. That is a very mature sample given the short duration of the relevant time frame. Admittedly I'm ignorant about the specifics of several of these 39, but
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by eroo 12y ago
This is empirically false. A recent look at 39 $1B+ companies founded in the last 10 years: 33% had an MBA founder, to say nothing of the MBAs that have played significant early-stage exec roles (e.g., Facebook's Sandberg, Evernote&#x2
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Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola + CDC Response(nytimes.com)
3 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
Steven Pinker offers a very convincing dissection of the referenced Deresiewicz article [1]. [1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119321/harvard-ivy-league... TL;DR: - Deresiewicz is willfully ignorant/misl
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Meet the 2014 MacArthur Fellows(macfound.org)
1 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
It sounds like they reverse Scotty'ed him.[0] Even the time frame is identical! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw
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by eroo 12y ago
"What it costs" shouldn't be represented as a percent of mean household income. This is very misleading. For example, if you drive out poor by increasing prices it may well make a city "more affordable" because both
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by eroo 12y ago
Non-paywall article on the same: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/amazon-not-google-repo... None of the reporting outlets have any substantial details yet though.
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Amazon–not Google–reportedly buying Twitch for $1B(arstechnica.com)
6 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
I wasn't aware of this research. Reflecting on my own schooling experience, however, there is something pleasantly intuitive about it. I'm always impressed with Salman Khan's work.
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Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart(khanacademy.org)
266 points by eroo 12y ago|64 comments
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Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica(nytimes.com)
19 points by eroo 12y ago|10 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
It would be really helpful to have some more context. (0) Can you link to the product? (1) When did you start and what has the growth trajectory been (e.g., weekly growth rate)? (2) Is there some marginal cost other than server space that i
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Ebola Outbreak Is A Global Health Emergency, WHO Says(npr.org)
4 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments
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New York’s Shadow Transit(newyorker.com)
4 points by eroo 12y ago|1 comments
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Safety Feature For Pedestrians Has Undesired Consequence(npr.org)
76 points by eroo 12y ago|93 comments
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by eroo 12y ago
There are two problems that too often seem to be conflated as a single issue: (1) we need more STEM students/workers, because they will build the future, and (2) there is persistent discrimination (notably sexism) in some of the sub-sp
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by eroo 12y ago
I'm a relatively new transplant to the city (3 years) and didn't even realize there was a time when the city was rent controlled. My cursory sleuthing indicates it was voted out narrowly in 1994.
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by eroo 12y ago
In Boston, an artificial scarcity of housing is the unfortunate result of laws that effectively limit new development. You either can't build new, can't build too high, or have to meet a neighborhood's aesthetic to get approv
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by eroo 12y ago
Once we start seeing reliable metrics for other common vitals, I'm optimistic we'll see massive benefits from data insights. With a large enough sample size and the right vitals, I'm hopeful we can find highly correlated earl
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Living the Fitbit life(newyorker.com)
116 points by eroo 12y ago|74 comments
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Google Ventures’ Bill Maris on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley(recode.net)
6 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Audiences Hate Hard News–And Love Pretending Otherwise(theatlantic.com)
3 points by eroo 12y ago|0 comments

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