theoldlove

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by theoldlove 3y ago
Pretty tired rehash of the immigration debate. Obligatory mention of Borjas, etc. Nothing here I haven’t heard a hundred times before.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Lots more interesting detail in the original 2021 LA Times expose: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-16/flamin-hot...
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Google $23M settlement: How to apply, how much you could get(wbir.com)
13 points by theoldlove 3y ago|13 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
“ The Public Interest Advocacy staff of the Georgia Public Service Commission warned back in 2008 that the costs could skyrocket. They advocated for a risk-sharing mechanism to incentivize Georgia Power to keep the construction costs down a
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AI Jesus, here to answer your questions 24/7(twitch.tv)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Anyone who is a full-time instructor at a university has a strongly considered becoming a professor, but weren’t able to get that job for whatever reason. And even if you were a professor, if you’re not bringing big money you’re not earning
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Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data(themarkup.org)
30 points by theoldlove 3y ago|1 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
The underlying Pew research study has a lot more meat than this pretty thin blog post: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I agree I don’t like wrecked. The Greek is the verb πέρθω, which is used exclusively in Homer for destroying/plundering/sacking towns.[0]. Wrecked sounds like I got into an unintended accident and ruined my car — not at all the sa
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State Farm to stop accepting homeowners insurance applications in California(cnbc.com)
69 points by theoldlove 3y ago|2 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Related Planet Money: Dude, where’s my streaming TV show?: Why platforms like HBO Max are removing streaming TV shows https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161382179/hbo-max-disappeari...
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Brain Drain Threatens the F.D.I.C. and Its Efforts to Regulate Banks(nytimes.com)
2 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Taylor Swift (one of the saaviest and wealthiest pop stars of the last 20 years) has a total net worth of $500 million. $225 million over three years is significantly more than she’s ever made.
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Unity Conducts Its Third and Largest Round of Layoffs in a Year(wsj.com)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
“state medical boards nationwide took away 692 doctors' licenses, or seven per 10,000 physicians, in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available.” https://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2018/10/ne
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by theoldlove 3y ago
10 years ago Reddit felt like it was full of teens, but today to me it feels like a bunch of twenty somethings (or older). The thing about teens is that they age out of being teens pretty fast.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Basic premise seems wrong. From the article: “Other polls, including Gallup, ask specifically about believing in God and show a decline in young adults who believe in God.”
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Looks like there’s nothing here except a half-baked website?
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Quite the advertisement for AWS. I’d like more details on what the migration to native AWS services looked like
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Judge tentatively OKs $725M Facebook settlement: How to apply for a payout(thehill.com)
57 points by theoldlove 3y ago|75 comments
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by theoldlove 4y ago
People become actuaries out of passion? I thought that was the definition of a stable, boring career. It’s what the dad does in Boyhood after giving up his dreams of a music career. Librarians I grant you, though I think the market for libr
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by theoldlove 4y ago
I think academia is pretty sweet for the people with tenure, agreed. It's just hell for the postdocs, lecturers, adjuncts, ph.d. students without funding, etc., who have no stability, no voice, and paltry income in the system. As someo
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by theoldlove 4y ago
You can easily have a monorepo with a distributed control system.
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by theoldlove 4y ago
TLG doesn’t have inscriptions.
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by theoldlove 4y ago
No one does anything relating to Roe purely for the money. Whatever the reason for this leak, it was (at least in part) motivated by principle.
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by theoldlove 5y ago
Under 5s still aren’t eligible.