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   by finolex1 8y ago

   Yahoo Finance and Sports are still very popular around the globe, and Yahoo Japan is among the top few websites visited in the country.
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   by finolex1 8y ago

   The idea might seem uncomfortable, but realize that on airplanes today most windows are closed for the majority of the flight and people seem perfectly alright with it.
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   by finolex1 8y ago

   Because it's closely related to research on the genetic basis of intelligence. Poor research on these topics in the past have been used to justify rather egregious social policies (eugenics, birth control, racial discrimination, etc).
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   by finolex1 8y ago

   That shouldn't really be a problem, and is already true in a lot of cases. For instance, professors in business schools get paid significantly more than professors in the economics department of the same university.
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   by finolex1 8y ago

   Yale's intro CS class uses Racket: https://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs201/
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   The cuckoo's Egg(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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   Building Mathematically Verified Bug-Free Blockchains [pdf](certik.org)

   5 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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   Project revives old software, preserves ‘born-digital’ data(news.yale.edu)

   2 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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   How Bell Pottinger, P.R Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa(nytimes.com)

   3 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    Keep in mind that these are Ivy League universities hoping to attract the best students they can in order to boost their prestige. If Princeton for instance decided to lower tuition fees by cutting down on 'luxuries' like smaller
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    Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer(nytimes.com)

    4 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    I wouldn't take his comments at face value. This is essentially political posturing to his voter base. Self-driving cars have barely made any inroads whatsoever into the country, and he's picked this non-issue to essentially signa
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    The Russian Hacker who makes millions targeting slot machines(wired.com)

    2 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    One of the main contributors to this state of affairs is geography: Less than 25% of Hong Kong consists of built up area, the rest is hilly and often reserved for parks or nature reserves. Most people are squeezed into a small area on the i
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    Social Choice and Individual Values – Kenneth Arrow [pdf](cowles.yale.edu)

    1 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    Yes, economics has not been very successful at making predictions with pinpoint accuracy, and yes, people might place too much faith in economic theory. But the stark reality is that the existence of economics as an academic discipline is i
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    The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses(quantamagazine.org)

    2 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    There have been some efforts: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/facebook-... However, building a few thousand apartments is hardly going to make a dent on the larger housing market. The
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    I daresay the experience of hustling and trying to build a company is a valuable form of education even for the 80 who fail
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    I have experiences with the same type of behavior in India, and a lot of it has got to do with the highly competitive and crowded environment here. If you want access to government services/get served by staff/get onto a bus etc.
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    Physically Unclonable Functions: Using the Rowhammer Effect for Security [pdf](caslab.csl.yale.edu)

    6 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    A watershed moment in understanding how H2O conducts electricity(news.yale.edu)

    7 points by finolex1 9y ago|2 comments
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    Yale Conic Sections Rebellion(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    Here's a master list of links to most of the papers mentioned: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wS6O7-ZoFL7Cfjgt-kdh...
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    Classics of Computer Science: A List – Harry Lewis, Harvard(harry-lewis.blogspot.com)

    8 points by finolex1 9y ago|1 comments
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    Challenging Mainstream Thought About Beauty’s Big Hand in Evolution(nytimes.com)

    1 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    The Singapore government implemented something similar a year earlier - disconnecting all government office computers from the internet. It's inconvenient, but in certain high risk use cases (power plants, airports, etc.) it might be e
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    Elitism in the academy: Hierarchy in faculty hiring networks(sciencemag.org)

    1 points by finolex1 9y ago|0 comments
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    That is a spurious relationship at best. Actually you couldn't possibly have chosen a worse example. Scandinavia actually has the highest share of billion-dollar exits compared to the rest of the world (7% of such exits compared to 2%
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    by finolex1 9y ago

    It doesn't directly, but it indicates that the nation has an ability to create a pipeline to identify and train talented students for a high-performance intellectual pursuit if they wish to.