Interesting reads
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Epic. Call Spielberg this would make a great mini series
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The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.
"Suppose your law firm wants a summer associate. A law student with a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford applies. What do you infer? The applicant is probably brilliant, diligent, and willing to tolerate serious boredom. If you’re looking for that kind of worker—and what employer isn’t?—you’ll make an offer, knowing full well that nothing the philosopher learned at Stanford will be relevant to this job."
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Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.
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Generation Screwed
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
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@rocky-rockbottom I think an unfortunate and significant question for millennials (and beyond) is "how much better can you do your job than someone in China"? And if the answer is "not that much", the appropriate comparison is not how well you live compared to the boomers, but how well you live compared to the guy in China who might take your job.
It's a shit position to be in a high cost - low wage economy.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Read the whole thing. What a mindfuck from beyond the orbit of Planet: Fuck.
I gave up.
It read as someone that feels entitled complaining about how unfair it is being labelled as someone that feels entitled.
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I thought it was an interesting article but I don’t have a lot of time for the argument that picks a particular set of circumstances at a particular moment in history and asks why things can’t be still like that.
It’s not just the author , politicians do it too. Yes houses were cheaper in the 70s would she swap her life now to live back then? Would she fuck.
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How the Apollo 1 fire propelled the lunar program.
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@jc said in Interesting reads:
How the Apollo 1 fire propelled the lunar program.
There is an episode on that incident on Time's podcast The Countdown
TIME Podcast - THE COUNTDOWN
TIME Podcast - It's Your Universe, Hosted by Jeffrey Kluger Hosted by Jeffrey Kluger @jeffreykluger The Countdown [protected-iframe id="d3f603617dd571af0f206174a0593cb2-1359921-40681012" info="https://art19.com/shows/2b823515-37f7-43af-99ce-5a2b1131d38d/embed?theme=dark...
Space does not wish you well. It has no shortage of ways to kill you, and in the fifty years humans have been flying spacecraft around the Earth and out to the moon, the mortal perils have been evident. But ten of the missions were the most harrowing of all. Some of them ended in tragedy, some ended successfully—but all of them involved astronauts playing for the very highest stakes in the very deadliest place. Countdown tells the tale of those ten missions—some of them American, some Russian —with authentic audio from the spacecraft, the ground and the broadcast booth. Written and narrated by Jeffrey Kluger—author of Apollo 13 and Apollo 8—Countdown recreates the space crises that every astronaut has feared, and that an unlucky handful were forced to live.re -
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
Detailed crime story of how the FBI hunted down the founder of "Silk Road" (darknet market for selling drugs).
It's pretty long, but well told with some decent character development of the key players.
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Panama disease and bananas
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/12/27/banana-fungus-panama-disease/
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@chris-b said in Interesting reads:
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
Detailed crime story of how the FBI hunted down the founder of "Silk Road" (darknet market for selling drugs).
It's pretty long, but well told with some decent character development of the key players.
That was an awesome read Chris B. Wired have some great long pieces.
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After the Gold Rush
Unfortunately for Donald and Ivana Trump, all that glittered wasn’t gold. But the reign of New York’s self-created imperial couple isn’t over yet. Donald’s Midas touch may be tarnished, but the banks are still throwing money at him, while Ivana is busy brokering a future of her own. Marie Brenner...
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New York City’s crime lab has been a pioneer nationally in analyzing especially difficult DNA samples. But the recent disclosure of the source code for its proprietary software is raising new questions about accuracy.
Thousands of Criminal Cases in New York Relied on Disputed DNA Testing Techniques
New York City’s crime lab has been a pioneer nationally in analyzing especially difficult DNA samples. But the recent disclosure of the source code for its proprietary software is raising new questions about accuracy.
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Face facts. The west that won the cold war no longer exists
Face facts. The west that won the cold war no longer exists | Rafael Behr
Capitalism conquered the eastern bloc. That’s why liberal politics alone won’t defeat today’s populism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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