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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 ...

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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 ...

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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-

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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/

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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. ...

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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/

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Now that's an unreasonable ZOOM
by Heraclitusstudent on 2 Jul 2015   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
http://nikonrumors.com/2015/03

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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, ...

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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

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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Swarms of drones...
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Apr 2015   3 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://qz.com/383275/google-ha It's coming...

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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 ...

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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.

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Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home
by Heraclitusstudent on 19 Mar 2015   64 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/

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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 ...

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GOP "Abstinence Only" Rep Cassidy's unwed teen daughter is pregnant.
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Feb 2015   11 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.dailykos.com/story/ Funny...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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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