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by jpster 8y ago
Yes and because the US government used housing policies to intentionally create segregated neighborhoods, segregation is alive and well in 2018 and won’t end without a proactive policy to reverse it. https://www.npr.org/2018
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The DNA of Great Marketing(outleapmarketing.com)
4 points by jpster 8y ago|0 comments
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This sounds really cool. Is this being done primarily for the benefit of your marketing team? I’m always curious about automating marketing reporting or operations.
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by jpster 9y ago
Scientific American reported on this in 2011 [1]. But the application seemed much more limited than how it's being described in this Crunchbase piece. Has the technology advanced that much or is the latest reporting off? [1] http:&#x2
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User-Centric Distributed Solutions for Privacy-Preserving Analytics(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by jpster 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 9y ago
There is a mooted ballot initiative which could free homeowners who want to move from the financial disincentives of Prop 13. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Could-...
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by jpster 9y ago
>Something similar is happening now in the city, with the video game industry and national intelligence. There are so many ex-spooks moving to Austin it has become a kind of Texas Abbottabad. Why is it attracting people from the intellig
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by jpster 9y ago
I find it surprising how much people underestimate the long-term impact of Occupy. Now when people say “the 1%”, everyone knows what they are talking about. The most popular Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, would not be where
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Romanian court tells man he is not alive(theguardian.com)
2 points by jpster 9y ago|0 comments
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Could be. I haven’t researched it but my impression is that off the shelf ATS is quite expensive.
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by jpster 9y ago
I've had success using Airtable with an email flow for an applicant tracking system. I: -posted a job ad with a specific reply-to email address -every time an applicant wrote to that email address, a row would automatically be added in
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by jpster 9y ago
Merci Grace. She's the former director of product for Slack and founder of Women in Product. She takes takes special interest in mentoring PMs who are women and people of color. https://twitter.com/merci https:/&
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by jpster 9y ago
>The self-taught developers orchestrated a successful debut which saw them reach Top 10 on bleeding edge curation platform Product Hunt, a shoutout from Eddie McGuire on Millionaire Hotseat and 1000 new users in a week to boot. That&#x27
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DIY electric snowblower(youtube.com)
1 points by jpster 9y ago|0 comments
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And yet 30% of Dutch women choose to give birth at home and it seems to work out. https://www.expatica.com/nl/healthcare/Why-the-Dutch-cherish...
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Why gin distillers in particular?
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Scientists Question Safety of Using Waste Water from Oil Fields on Food(nbcbayarea.com)
42 points by jpster 9y ago|5 comments
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Does this mean huge datasets are no longer a prerequisite for this type of computing? Leveling the playing field for smaller teams who may no longer have to rely on Google- or FB-sized datasets?
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by jpster 9y ago
Columbine, 9/11, the financial crisis and student debt were all mentioned in this article as possible contributors to teens’ depression. What about climate change? The young will bear the brunt of of it, they know it and they can see t
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by jpster 9y ago
> Why do you have a dog? I ask myself this question every day :) I rescued them from the shelter and love them dearly, but they are a handful!
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by jpster 9y ago
I'm impressed by the way he used Twitter as a table of contents to his own writing. https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/915959278028148736
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by jpster 9y ago
Hmm, I’d much rather have a robot to feed my dogs, control their access to the backyard and scoop their poop.
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> Waymo chose the Phoenix area for its favorable weather, its wide, well-maintained streets, and the relative lack of pedestrians. [1] These are not very common conditions. So what is Waymo's plan for the rest of the world? And what
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Evidence from Chicago on the costs of building tall cities(voxeu.org)
3 points by jpster 9y ago|0 comments
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Kiss Of Life is one of the best love songs ever.
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by jpster 9y ago
Will the search pick up your terms when they occur in Groups that you’ve not joined yet? Any chance you can share the code on Github?
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by jpster 9y ago
Also, Sundown Towns May have been at their most extreme in the South. But a look at Bay Area housing deeds from the 1940s will show that these neighborhoods were also explicitly seeking to keep non-whites out. Via explicit provisions that a
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by jpster 9y ago
This is a most excellent book about Reconstruction from firsthand accounts. This country would have been a far different place if the federal government had seen its responsibility through. https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2
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>We had plenty of bias before but we couldn’t see it. We can’t see, for example, that the algorithms that manage the workers at McDonald’s or The Gap are optimized toward not giving people full-time work so they don’t have to pay benefit
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by jpster 9y ago
They include a Google doc version so I think they are sincere. But it could also still be an unintentional parody. What I find fascinating: here is someone’s attempt to show that they have planned for absolutely everything needed to make th

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