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37% of British workers think their jobs are meaningless (2015)(yougov.co.uk)
1 points by mbroshi 8y ago|0 comments
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Leaving Academia for BuzzFeed: Six Months Later (2014)(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by mbroshi 8y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 8y ago
I wonder whether the premise of your question is faulty. If you ask enough people: "In your last 100 flips of a coin, did you get more than 60 heads?" some will truthfully say "Yes." Unfortunately, that does not mean the
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Uber Has One Way Forward on Self-Driving Cars(theringer.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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DePauw U Guarantees Every Graduate Will Find a Job(campustechnology.com)
2 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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The Gamblers Betting Against Donald Trumpand Getting Rich(theringer.com)
3 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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The Nordic Glass Ceiling [pdf](object.cato.org)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
Apparently some mice do menstruate[1]. Do mice have another mechanism for handling the issue the author raises: "What to do when the embryo died or was stuck half-alive in the uterus?" [1]: https://www.nature.com/n
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The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
36 points by mbroshi 9y ago|37 comments
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Four Rules for Work Life and Financial Life(hackernoon.com)
2 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
I believe OP's point was that aggregating crowd-sourced reporting of outages is surprisingly accurate and prompt, not that there aren't any other tools for reporting outages.
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by mbroshi 9y ago
Nice feature-level comparison. Don't know how you'd pull it off in the current tabular format, but would be great to include some of the UX side of things: For example, I use rg almost exclusively because it has an easy-to remembe
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by mbroshi 9y ago
In order to open a new hospital in most jurisdictions, by law you need the permission of other local hospitals [0]. That's like being required to get the permission from Google to start a new search engine. 0. https://en.wik
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Investors Are Celebrating the Tech Revolution(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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Is Smiling? Cross-Cultural Study on Recognition of Emoticon’s Emotion(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
As pointed out in the comments section, the chart does not account for years of life lost, simply numbers of lives. I'd be interested with whether the ex-post explanation still applies if we did a simple transformation like weighted ea
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by mbroshi 9y ago
You've just rediscovered the premise of David Eggers's The Circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
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by mbroshi 9y ago
For those looking, I believe the actual research article is here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/30/tobac...
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A University Powered by the 'Good Will' of Others(chronicle.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems(equality-of-opportunity.org)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's Harm Is Taking Life Out of Context(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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The Cruel Irony of the DACA Database(theringer.com)
2 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
A lot of people are remarking on particular ideas. Before you do this, make note of the following points: 1. The author is posting one of these lists EVERY DAY(!) 2. The author puts in the About: "Since ideas are useless if you don’t s
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by mbroshi 9y ago
This sounds ad hominem to me. While it's certainly worthwhile to consider Certsimple's motivations when reading the article, I actually found their case pretty compelling.
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Don't Be Too Hard on Apple for Bending to China(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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Speeding Up Your Podcasts Won’t Solve Your Problems(theringer.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
TLDR: Government makes trillions by auctioning off the interstates, and uses the money to fund a universal basic income. Should be equally popular for both free market and socialist sorts.
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Privatize the Interstates(wsj.com)
1 points by mbroshi 9y ago|3 comments
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by mbroshi 9y ago
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." - Warren Bennis
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by mbroshi 9y ago
This is from the article: "...the fact that they offer market-value estimates and 'are promoted as a tool for potential buyers to use in assessing [the] market value of a given property,' shows that they meet the definition o

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