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Relevant: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-09/u-s-impose... '“Economically counterproductive tariffs have artificially made solar panel prices in the U.S. the most expensive in the world,”
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A few important segments that really seem to get buried in the rest of the text. "This is not to say that Chinese government regulation drove Uber’s deal with Didi, which was clobbering Uber in the ride-sharing market; in fact, Uber fe
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Or "off the record" as a whole phrase: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=%22off+the+record%22&mfr...
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Yes, +1 to this. Also, just because this one innocent employee says she "can handle it" doesn't mean that he isn't behaving like this to other employees, current or future. In order to (1) protect your other employees, a
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What if your city doesn't have that?
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I'm a little bit puzzled by your statement, "These were the only jobs the teenagers were qualified to do." Surely there's other work, possibly more of it these days, for teenagers to do. For instance, with an increase in
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If you look at the trendlines for what certain types of jobs or fields paid (e.g., doctor, nurse, programmer, marketer), you'd see that when women enter a particular field en masse, the pay drops. And when the gender balance in that fi
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On that note, if the government has a warrant, should they be allowed to use EEG to get your phone's PIN code regardless of your consent? https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical...
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Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’ Phone Records(theintercept.com)
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Yep, rates of evolution (in particular mutation rate and drift) are proportional to population size, and we have a larger population size than we ever have in the past. ~2 billion base pairs * ~1 in a billion error rate = 2 mutations per ge
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5 open source web apps, alternatives to Google Drive(opensource.com)
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> The action also shows that despite spending billions of dollars to create one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censorship and surveillance systems, blind spots abound. Does anyone here have a source that compares the reach of
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> I am very skeptical of any self reported numbers coming out of Chinese markets Would you say that you are less skeptical of large U.S.-based companies (banks, energy, or any other sector) when self-reporting?
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Note that I did not claim China doesn't have racism. But by personally comparing my experience growing up Asian in the U.S. (having lived in non-diverse small Midwest towns for several years) with the experience of Caucasian friends wh
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My mom's childhood friend who was a Holocaust refugee has no reason to lie to me (about not being able to go to any other country they tried to escape to), I think. But here, I pulled up some sources to placate you guys: https:/&
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I would also like to offer another data point. The way that Jews were treated in Europe vs in China in the same time period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaifeng_Jews
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Here's an interesting pickle about linguistic diversity: Jane Austen is roughly temporally equidistant between modern day and Shakespeare, yet our level of mutual intelligibility is so much higher. What changed? Standardization (such a
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FWIW, I'm 1/8 Manchurian even though my birth certificate says "Han" and the Qing Dynasty, which ended in 1911, was ruled by Manchurians. China was the only nation that welcomed refugees fleeing from pogroms in one era a
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China was also very open to immigration and inclusive in what counted as "Chinese."
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Meteor Announces Scholarship for High School Girls to Learn How to Code(techcrunch.com)
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People often forget that systemic racism against Asian Americans is also racism. That's part of the point. That you can do everything right and have things go reasonably well, but have it all taken away from you because of the color of
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Most IMSA kids I knew went home to their parents on the weekends, every weekend. Most boarding school kids I knew only went 'home' for summer, winter holidays, spring break, etc.
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Can you imagine if the GCHQ had a breach and all the dirt on all everyone they spied on suddenly became public?
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In theory, the journal could also tell authors who have submitted articles that their submissions don't have enough citations. And to go back and revise until they do. That wouldn't be so entirely out of the ordinary.
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First paragraph: "The Journal of Criminal Justice has been on a roll. Once considered a somewhat middling publication — not in the same league as top journals like Criminology and Justice Quarterly — it is now ranked No. 1 in the field
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The article also doesn't mention an obvious bias, that is, if a startup starts in Europe, there are a lot of incentives for that startup to move to the U.S. early in its life cycle. In that scenario, the startups who become successful
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Apple Leaves 'Rootpipe' Backdoors in 3 per Cent of All PCs on the Planet(forbes.com)
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Why I Put My Wife’s Career First(theatlantic.com)
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I can see this being a scene in a film (from the article): 'I arrived the next morning to be greeted by two men, with cheap suits and attaché cases, looking like the East German Stasi. They were government officials. They asked, “So wh
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Wow. "A woman told the paper that she was pulled over by Woodworth police while in labor — and was kept for more than a half hour."

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