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Robot touch makes people feel good – especially when accompanied by robot (cont)(digest.bps.org.uk)
1 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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Conscience Driven Politics(outlookzen.com)
1 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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by whack 4y ago
> The reality is quite different. Income, I believe, is determined not by productivity, but instead largely by rank within a hierarchy. In other words, power begets income. The role of economics is to deny this uncomfortable reality. Ec
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How do video games stay in sync?(medium.com)
303 points by whack 4y ago|164 comments
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by whack 4y ago
From the article: > Haiti has been the victim of injustice. The indemnity was immoral, and France should be ashamed of it. The US Occupation of Haiti abused many Haitians, and I, an American, am ashamed when I see photos of Charlemagne
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by whack 4y ago
Google is aware that this is a big deal. It is a big deal to them as well. Search is their golden goose and they are terrified of doing anything that would break it or worsen it. No one has ever accused the Search team of having a "mov
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Buy vs. Rent – Ignore the Rent on the House You’re Looking to Buy and Live In(outlookzen.com)
2 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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by whack 4y ago
> The proximate cause was a recall of formula produced by Abbott, but that was only the triggering event. In a well-functioning market, any temporary shortage caused by the removal of one company's product from the market would be
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My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer(software.rajivprab.com)
248 points by whack 4y ago|385 comments
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Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes(apnews.com)
3 points by whack 4y ago|1 comments
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Highly religious Americans more skeptical of human enhancements(pewresearch.org)
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by whack 4y ago
> There's no reason to think the non-profit accomplishes anything or doesn't accomplish negative things You could say the exact same thing about how the federal government spends its money. > And there is an opportunity c
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Nvidia sees trillion-dollar future in open and parallel code(theregister.com)
3 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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by whack 4y ago
The US government gets $0.16B less that it can control in social spending. But in return, a regulated non-profit institution gets $1.1B more in its budget. That's a pretty good tradeoff for the social good. For an alternative way of lo
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China’s Lockdowns Wreak Havoc on Economy as Xi Pledges Support(bloomberg.com)
5 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience(theregister.com)
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by whack 4y ago
People make mistakes. Sometimes you can learn from them. A few questions to consider: - Did you talk to people who were product managers or program managers, and learn more about the role, prior to taking that leap? If not, this might have
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Could there be a link between one's reading skills and empathetic ability?(app.gorilla.sc)
1 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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Helping others enhances graduate student wellness and mental health – “AC (cont)(nature.com)
1 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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People who endorse conspiracy theories tend to be more religious, and thi (cont)(psypost.org)
1 points by whack 4y ago|0 comments
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Half of parents still financially support their adult children, study shows(cnbc.com)
16 points by whack 4y ago|1 comments
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by whack 4y ago
If you're a Google caliber engineer, you're going to be significantly better (at coding) than your average classmate at a "state school not really known for CS". There's nothing arrogant or elitist about this - it i
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Article discusses the need for philosophy to be taught in public sch (cont)(medium.com)
2 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments
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Eight points for one team is two points for another team(lloydatkinson.net)
57 points by whack 5y ago|102 comments
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What Hobbes thought about war – Generations of politcal theorists (cont)(iai.tv)
1 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments
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by whack 5y ago
> Lesson 2, which was to use soft deletes, is something I have more thoughts about. I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint, but I'm not really sure how you'd do a "cascading soft delet
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Couples' well-being and sociopolitical attitudes change independently ove (cont)(psypost.org)
1 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments
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Growing our Economy Won’t Make Us Happier: Philosophers have argued for C (cont)(woroni.com.au)
1 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments
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Competition is Good, Cartels are Bad, and so too are Unions(outlookzen.com)
3 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments
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“Growing our Economy Won’t Make Us Happier”: psychological research finds (cont)(woroni.com.au)
1 points by whack 5y ago|0 comments

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