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by msabalau 10y ago
Or we could open medical credentialing to foreign talent. But that would mean that our trade policy would have disadvantage elites rather simply leaving the working class open to global competition while protecting doctors, lawyers, and co
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If Thiel actually felt that he was acting in a just and above board way to address a wrong, it's hard to understand why he has been skulking about secretly funding this take down. It is implausible at best to believe that anyone with a
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Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public(points.datasociety.net)
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If the objection is the alleged difficulty in installing competing app stores, why isn't the relevant market the market for apps, rather than the market for phones?
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by msabalau 11y ago
There was a time, less than 20 years ago, when people would have said the same thing about Nokia.
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I grew up in a rural area which became the suburbs. I know that I didn't consider not having a car when I moved to the city. Fortunately someone stole my car, and I learned how much better my life was without it. It was one of the n
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Inequality in blue states flows from housing policy. Boomers propping up housing costs regardless of the societal impact. Sneering at meritistrocats won't put fish back in the sea for the people of New Bedford to catch, but allowing d
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Perhaps the assumptions that cause people to aspire to a McMansion are the ones that "enslave". "Here, have a bigger container, so you can collect more things."
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Mostly a synthesis of what you'd find from other sources. The most interesting bit was adding the US context: "One reason there may be relatively few Americans named in the documents is that it is fairly easy to form shell compan
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This is the "sort of" landline solution that I use. I get iffy cell reception in my home, this means is a nice affordable way to ensure calls get through.
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Many interesting technologies aren't for mainstream users initially. Not everything is a messaging app that can scale to billions of users with dozens of engineers. It is okay to get things right with early adopters before crossing t
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Facebook explains that it is totally not doing racial profiling(arstechnica.com)
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On the other hand, a console is an easy gift to give, regardless of your technical capabilities, and as a kid, it's easier to endless encourage your parents to get the right thing. Ask for a computer, and you may end up with a chromeb
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I can see why a young person might want to gamble with health insurance. It's harder to understand how car insurance could be characterized a tax on the young and healthy.
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Let's see: Due to quality control “Those results are not worth anything,” Yet doctors were relying on them to adjust warfarin levels, where "Too much warfarin can cause fatal bleeding, while too little can leave patients vulnerabl
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> How it is more often foisted upon women? According to the 2015 Report Caregiving in the US, 60% of caregivers are women, and half of caregivers report having no choice in undertaking caregiving.
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Study that undercut psych research got it wrong(news.harvard.edu)
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And, for B2B, once you sort out Sales, you next learn how valuable Accounts Payable is...
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Despite nearly a year of campaigning, 6 months of extensive political coverage, non-stop advertising, and series of debates with large audiences when push came to shove a third of New Hampshire primary voters decided in the last few days be
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Smartphones outsell computers 5 to 1 and for the next billion smartphone users a smartphone will be their first computer. Dismissing them as mere refinement of what went before is to ignore the scale of their impact on the world. One may as
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For those in New England, they are having a two day workshop: "Welcome to Do-it-Yourself Bioengineering!" as part of the 2016 Cambridge Science Festival in April, tickets on Eventbrite.
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The article looks forward to a bright future where people who cut hair can earn much less than the current median wage of $11.12 an hour.
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Apple appears to have great difficulty understanding context in video game culture, perhaps as a consequence of Steve Jobs distaste for the form. In this case, they seem unaware that the Binding of Issac is an important, well regarded indi
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Apple rejects the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth b/c of 'violence towards children'(polygon.com)
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Death rates rise as unemployment falls. This is concentrated in the elderly, and there is research that suggests that this may be attributed to the increasing difficulty hiring home health aides, nursing aides, etc. ( http://www.n
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Ummm, the purpose of creative people is to take the world, look at it from different angles, and share that with people. That includes looking at fiction. Brin's playful provocation might not be your taste, but he's not the one t
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I'm not certain we have evidence that training is necessary to use the Force, it may be mostly intended to prevent misuse. The eight year old rugrat in the first prequel was quite remarkable without any training. We have new evil for
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It would seem simpler to make the fine come directly as a percentage (or entirety) of the shares in the company from the shareholders. Why disrupt operations more than is needed to effect change, or end the jobs of innocent low level emplo
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Well, their current offering is really: you get a streaming music service, and for the same price as any other streaming music service you also get an ad free YouTube experience, and the ability easily save YouTube videos for offline viewin
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If people in power were terrified of Occupy, recent history has shown that they have had absolutely no reason to be. Consensus decision making has hamstrung progressive causes since the 70s ( http://berkeleyjournal.org/2015&#

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