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by qiqing 12y ago
Excerpt from the article, "The researchers noted that female adult chimps made and used spears more often than adult males. The males relied more on their size and strength for hunting. Female chimps are almost always hindered by infan
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The Vietnam War, as Seen by the Victors(theatlantic.com)
7 points by qiqing 12y ago|0 comments
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A couple more papers on the topic: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117711... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117710... Note the auth
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and the prison-industrial complex who stand to profit off of taxpayer dollars by locking as many people up for as minor infractions as they can get away with as possible...
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The legal system is supposed to make punishments fit the crime, not heap arbitrarily much punishment on anyone who ever breaks any law ever. If you only never made any mistakes filling out your taxes, your moonshine business may still be th
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Also, prison contractors get more taxpayer dollars for lengthy sentences, whereas the state handles executions (that is, there's no profit in executions for the prison-industrial complex).
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The U.S. incarcerates more people than China. Not per capita, mind you. More total people. If ever there's a stellar example of the kind of disaster that can result from privatizing a government function, this is it. Private prisons ha
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How I discovered a coffee pot was making my patient sick(qz.com)
12 points by qiqing 12y ago|3 comments
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Save the ili pika(theverge.com)
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How to Install Sandstorm on Ubuntu 14.04(digitalocean.com)
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Reading this list just gives me a head-rush of joyous giddiness. Take that, craven old conservatives and naysayers! "Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic
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How This Young Latina Female VC Broke into a Middle-Aged White Male Industry(hunterwalk.com)
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Albanian sworn virgins(en.wikipedia.org)
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Privacy > Cosmetics If you lose all your hair, everyone knows you have cancer, whereas if you have your hair, you can choose who to disclose that information to. The proximal difference may be the unsolicited comments (most of them well-
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Psychology of ‘no': Vancouver transit vote shows why good decisions are hard(news.nationalpost.com)
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Relevant: Luddite (noun) : one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; From Wikipedia : The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed la
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Also relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China
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The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians (1997)(nber.org)
52 points by qiqing 12y ago|52 comments
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Hey moderators, did this set off the flamewar detector? Because I don't think that's the article's fault, and people may well have things to say that aren't flamebait. Current count of comments = 31; points = 37.
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by qiqing 12y ago
1. A colleague of the author has commented in a lower thread that 12 years was the size of the data set available. 2. If n is very small in a several-year period, you wouldn't be able to do meaningful analyses on that period. How many
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I also contest the author's estimate of what 8 year olds are capable of, having very clear memories of being that age myself, and generally always being underestimated by adults. Some of whom sounded like this one. Luckily that set of
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CIA Whistleblower Faces 100 Years in Prison(yournewswire.com)
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Fewer women are also dying in childbirth as nations get more developed. Slightly relevant.
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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao takes on former VC firm in gender discrimination case(arstechnica.com)
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I recommend the original title of the post: "Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft: I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations" or the author's tweet: "Weaning myself off Apple, Microsoft, Go
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Ancient Chinese Buddha statue has a mummy with surprises inside(cbc.ca)
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I had worked on this a few years back, and I quit to start a startup. Sorry. (Not sorry.)
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Most of my classmates were, in fact, looking for jobs in academia. And there is the commonly held fear (due to lack of role models) that if you leave academia, you may as well be eaten by wolves. FWIW, I'm glad I left academia.
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I wrote this elsewhere, but there's actually a lot else at play. And if you're female, you'll get extra pressure from family, friends, significant other, etc., to choose the school that is close to them. Essentially, if you o
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As someone who has experienced schools in both top 10 and 11-20 range, I can tell you it's a lot like the challenges faced by kids from lower socio-economic circumstances in K-12 schooling, and that the quality of the students alone ar

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