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China Freezes Out Tencent, Toutiao Apps as Crackdown Widens(bloomberg.com)
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The Bell Curve is about policy. And it’s wrong(vox.com)
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by pulisse 9y ago
Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so environmental interventions have a fairly marginal effect on it. (a) The Flynn Effect demonstrates that IQ is quite responsive to environment. (b) The heritability of a trait is not a mea
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The Mice Who Evolved to Live on Cheese Fries: Prowling New York with a Biologist(nymag.com)
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by pulisse 9y ago
The problems with the subway are not due to excess demand. Delays and closures have been rising far faster than ridership.
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YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App(buzzfeed.com)
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g, a Statistical Myth (2007)(bactra.org)
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The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant(themarshallproject.org)
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by pulisse 9y ago
I'm saying that rarity of voter fraud means deterrent measures like this are unnecessary. It's a solution in search of a problem.
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by pulisse 9y ago
In-person voter fraud is vanishingly rare (0.0003 percent to 0.0025 percent, according to a recent meta-analysis[1]). A severe penalty in this sort of case serves no meaningful deterrent function. [1] https://www.brennancenter.o
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by pulisse 9y ago
tl;dr Gap stores in the experimental group gave employees predictable work schedules. These stores saw a 7% increase in sales over control group stores (which continued to schedule hours in unpredictable and short-notice fashion).
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A Find at Gap: Steady Hours Can Help Workers, and Profits(nytimes.com)
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Leaked Memo: EPA Shows Workers How to Downplay Climate Change(huffingtonpost.com)
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by pulisse 9y ago
While it may have been characterized as more secure than personal investment, agreeing to this compensation scheme doesn't remove the burden of risk Owing a defined-benefit pension is a legal obligation to provide a future revenue st
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by pulisse 9y ago
Somebody has to take the punch bowl away and make us pay what’s come due. Why is it public-sector retirees in particular who must pay that price? Again, they have moral and legal claims on their pensions, and they (largely low and modera
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by pulisse 9y ago
One generation promised itself the next generation will pay them massive, undeserved pensions Defined-benefit pensions are a form of deferred compensation. State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future b
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by pulisse 9y ago
with lots of past success including getting ready to setup a colony on Mars How is that a "past success"?
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Claims of free speech crisis on campuses ‘exaggerated’, say MPs(timeshighereducation.com)
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Facebook, Google spending big bucks to fight California data privacy measure(sacbee.com)
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The YouTube Kids app has been suggesting a load of conspiracy videos to children(businessinsider.com)
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On Facebook, Cabbage Juice Is the New Snake Oil(buzzfeed.com)
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by pulisse 9y ago
Milk does not naturally contain very much vitamin D, so that's a silly reason to expect lactase persistence to have evolved. The original study[1] doesn't suggest a connection between lactase persistence and vitamin D. It does
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How Europeans evolved white skin (2015)(sciencemag.org)
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S. Jeong herself seems not to be too worked up about it: I am not "this chick," I have never been "this chick," the correct label is "yonder youthful poultry" .[1] [1] https://twitter.com/sarah
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by pulisse 9y ago
I'm not sure how Google qualifies as a private company It qualifies as a private company because it is, as a matter of law, a private company. Tell me how I can refuse to bake a cake for someone because their personal views differ f
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YouTube, the Great Radicalizer(nytimes.com)
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There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: An Unreasonably Long Thread(twitter.com)
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Found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth(latimes.com)
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by pulisse 9y ago
"Absence of bias" is a useless concept. A news outlet must make choices about which topics to cover; what facts to report about those topics; which sources to trust, which to use skeptically, and which to ignore; which claims to
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by pulisse 9y ago
The mayor of New York was a Republican from 1994 to 2014. If your impression about city policies were accurate, that would not count against the Democratic party in the way you seem to imply. But I don't think your impression about th

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