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Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist To Enjoy TV Show
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 11 Nov 2015
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
http://www.theonion.com/articl “No mentally cataloging all the times women are subtly mocked or shamed for not living up to an unrealistic body image, no examining how women are depicted as ...
People would rather get electric shock than sit alone for 6 min
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 26 Oct 2015
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.theguardian.com/sci (without a smartphone) "What is striking is that simply being alone with their thoughts was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock ...
Plug out of reality
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 25 Sep 2015
Posted 10 years ago
The dream of some people here may yet come to pass: http://www.cnet.com/news/talk-
HP to cut 30000 jobs in restructuring
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 15 Sep 2015
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
Ouch! Time to cash out your Palo Alto houses HPers! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
Humans will have cloud-connected hybrid brains by 2030 says Kurzweil
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 14 Sep 2015
16 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.learning-mind.com/h That's it: the guy fell off the deep-end...
More Americans giving good moral advice to Europe
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 18 Sep 2015
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09 "Many European leaders have described the refugees who are risking their lives to get to the Continent as a burden. But there is good reason to believe that ...
Apple is next US tech company to be destroyed by commoditisation
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 3 Sep 2015
16 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ A smart phone is an assemblage of commodity components and really cost about $60. No amount of marketing will allow a company to sell an item for $600 ...
How The GOP Can Appeal To Women
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 10 Aug 2015
4 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.theonion.com/graphi - Make it clear that they think everyone, not just women, should receive less health care - Offer direct, heartfelt apology to any female donors they may have ...
Trump on climate and energy
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 6 Aug 2015
1 comment, latest
10 years ago
Funny. This should go over big with some people here: Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a ...
AI: tech chiefs not getting it
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 3 Aug 2015
3 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.zdnet.com/article/n - It sounds like a lot of them still don't believe it can be done: [Rob Neil, head of business change and technology Ashford Borough Council, said the ...
Why Are So Many Millennials Still in the Basement?
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 30 Jul 2015
5 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.bloombergview.com/a Pundits are apparently still not getting that rents/prices are sky-rocketing and many millennials don't have the money. (And the prices competition simply reflects the fact that there just ...
Hacker Attack Reported on Ashley Madison
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 20 Jul 2015
2 comments, latest
10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07 I just want to know how many republican candidates are on it.
the 2017 depression
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 17 Jul 2015
Posted 10 years ago
http://www.bloombergview.com/a "Let's say China actually did grow 7 percent between April and June. That's still markedly slower than the 12 percent jump in corporate and household borrowing last month. ...
More numbers on global poverty
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 8 Jul 2015
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
Looks like people are moving to the "low income" bucket. (less than $10/day). Probably spent on food. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
Now that's an unreasonable ZOOM
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 2 Jul 2015
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://nikonrumors.com/2015/03
Cruz Drives Millions to Atheism
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 1 Jul 2015
7 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.newyorker.com/humor "The Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz's constant references to Jesus Christ in his speeches and campaign ads are sparking a strong interest in atheism among millions of Americans, ...
Screw it, let's move to an other planet.
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 30 Jun 2015
7 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/keple
Tsipras growing more delusional
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 16 Jun 2015
49 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/greek-pm Alexis Tsipras lashed out at Greece's creditors on Tuesday, accusing them of trying to "humiliate" Greeks... Mr. Tsipras also accused the fund of “criminal” responsibility for errors in ...
Economists Find China Killing U.S. Factory Jobs
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 18 Jun 2015
96 comments, latest
11 years ago
An other DUUUHHH moment for economists.... http://www.bloomberg.com/polit
Pope on environment
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 18 Jun 2015
9 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.philly.com/philly/n "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth," he wrote." The pope failed to draw the most immediate (and ...
Google Chrome records sounds and sends them to Google
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 19 Jun 2015
2 comments, latest
11 years ago
https://www.privateinternetacc "Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that ...
US household wealth reaches new high of nearly $85 trillion
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 11 Jun 2015
5 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/us-house Fake wealth made of inflated 'assets'. This "wealth" can never be spent because you need a house to live in and retirement money. Part of the increasingly tattered ...
Gen Xers worse off than millennials
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 10 Jun 2015
28 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ The members of Generation X have plenty to be grumpy about. For starters, no one talks about them anymore. Its all millennials all the time. Theres another reason ...
These Are the 13 Cities Where Millennials Can't Afford a Home
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 8 Jun 2015
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ Too bad because someone has to pay for the bag holders/previous generation...
Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 27 Mar 2015
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03 I find it really annoying to see how the press tries to use one incident to show how an entire industry is SOOO unfair with women, and even ...
How Student Loans Could Cripple the U.S. Economy
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 30 Apr 2015
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ Looks like, in a closed system, you can't loot forever without ever wondering where the money comes from.
Swarms of drones...
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 14 Apr 2015
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://qz.com/383275/google-ha It's coming...
Rising house prices may be chiefly responsible for rising inequality
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 30 Mar 2015
28 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.economist.com/news/ "Moreover, if housing is the biggest source of rising inequality, then the wealth tax Mr Piketty advocates is the wrong response. Policymakers should instead try to reduce the ...
More new homes priced in the $200K to $300K range
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 25 Mar 2015
Posted 11 years ago
Have builders decided to return to reality? http://www.calculatedriskblog.
Yanis Varoufakis: No Time for Games in Europe
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 16 Feb 2015
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02 ---------------------- This guy wants to do what is right, and he knows what is right "by looking into the eyes of the hungry in the streets of our ...
Global Debt Has Risen by $57 Trillion Since the Financial Crisis
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 5 Feb 2015
13 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02 Maybe Darlag is right after all.
In blow to Greece, ECB restricts banks' access to cash
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 4 Feb 2015
13 comments, latest
11 years ago
In a decision that rattled financial markets, the ECB said it would no longer allow Greek banks to use government debt, which has a junk rating, as collateral for ...
Teaching everyone to code is delusional
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 1 Jan 2015
71 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://singularityhub.com/2014 Since 2005, Ive been grappling with the issue of what to teach young people. Ive written curricula for junior high students in the US, for a UNICEF program ...
10yrs US interest rates at 2.21% ???
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 29 Dec 2014
8 comments, latest
11 years ago
US 10yrs treasury bonds yield 2.21% today. Growth was 5% last quarter + 1.3% inflation = 6.3%... Either growth will be much lower OR rates have to jump by ...
Calculated risk: the future is bright for years to come
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 5 Dec 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.calculatedriskblog. Here are some updates to the graphs I posted two years ago. Several of these graphs have changed direction since I wrote that post. As example, state and ...
Why girls don't do tech
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 4 Nov 2014
61 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11 3 Million ‘Frozen’ Princess Dresses Sold, Disney Says
Retirements: the older generation is always supported by the young
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 6 Nov 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
How do you finance retirement: 1 - people can save during their work life, setting money aside that they will spend in retirement 2 - we could have a ...
Underwriting the Next Housing Crisis
by
Heraclitusstudent
on 1 Nov 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11 Although it runs counter to the current Washington view, good underwriting standards can satisfy the objectives of both parties. It’s clear that today’s policies create winners and losers. ...
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