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The only reliable way is to have the clause negotiated into a union contract which also has a "just cause" termination clause.

One more reason to for tech workers to start organizing.

This is pretty interesting too: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-sedan-vs...

Same car has grown by 5% over 15 years.

A domain name can go away just as easily, maybe more easily than a popular URL shortening service.

Try https://www.newsblur.com/ it does a lot of what you're asking for and works well on web and mobile app.

It's only a tradeoff if you assume that the process must be automated and operate with a minimum of actual human scrutiny or consideration.

Any qualified human review would immediately be able to distinguish and vastly improve both the false negative and false positive rates.

But because these tech companies devalue that kind of work they aren't willing to invest in it.

Well, almost no one does, but someone has filed a whistle-blower claim with the IRS that this pricing arrangement is an illegal tax dodge: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/your-money/vanguard-a-cha...

It seems as though that case is still pending resolution.

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For backend specifically, on the CMS team there's this job https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor... or a fun one with the cooking team https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor...

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This is like a less thought out version of the carbon fee and dividend plan https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/ that has wide ranging support - though not from the people who currently matter.

This section is troubling.

> In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, or Alibaba.

For context, Cloudflare currently handles around 10% of Internet requests.

Without a clear framework as a guide for content regulation, a small number of companies will largely determine what can and cannot be online.

You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Think about what's on the x-axis here. The graph is really a histogram with average income growth binned into one percentile intervals.

On the second, thanks for the reference, haven't read that. Would be interested to hear how you think that change would lead to these effects.

They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing.

And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?

GDP growth and income growth are not equivalent - for example, corporate profits that aren't distributed would count towards GDP but not towards individual incomes.

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That's definitely not the case... Journals provide news outlets with complimentary copies of papers specifically so that they can be written about. Often, but not always, they're even provided in advance of official publication.

It's really depressing how cynical that is. (Developer working at the NYTimes here).

The actual reason links to studies are often left off articles (particularly in cases like this with sharp deadline pressure to publish fast before the competition) is that the software powering the editing and publishing workflow really badly needs improvement. An incredible amount of work and knowledge goes into a story like this.

Versioning rich text through many different software tools designed for writing/editing and publishing across many platforms is hard. Sometimes people copy/paste by hand and in doing so a link can go missing. The news industry needs more technologists to work on these problems. We're hiring for people to do that, by the way: http://developers.nytimes.com/careers/

(Also, the link to the study is now in.)

If your mental model for something is so malleable that it can explain cancer and police corruption the same way, maybe it's not actually providing any insight and all you've done is distort reality to fit it. Just saying... Game theory is so easy to invoke

No.

The desire to translate all nutritional research into diet advice is what leads to fad diets and horrific misunderstanding of what science knows and doesn't know about nutrition and metabolic pathways.

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This is indeed a manual switch in the CMS that human editors decide to turn on for certain stories.

(Source: I work at the Times)

Here's the developer overview:

https://developer.apple.com/researchkit/researchkit-technica...

It appears to mostly be an iOS UI toolkit of sorts for easing the creation of individual apps to collect research data. The hard work must still be done by each individual research project.

It might test well in metrics, but this is the kind of thing that points out why purely data based decision making can be dangerous. A-B testing assumes users will all behave the same in the future as in the past. But people's future behavior is dependent on their present behavior and experiences.

With repeated exposure to URLs more people will learn how URLs work. Hiding URLs means that people will never be able to learn.

All the training in needfinding, and exploring the problem and solution sound very similar to how business school classes work to me.

And I would guess that those skills are all very valuable, but aren't enough on their own. Lots of the hardest and most important problems and needs to solve in our world are in fields that require deep domain knowledge.

It feels like because so many startup founders don't have the patience to go into a field and acquire that domain knowledge everyone is focused on problems that yuppies have that can be solved by looking at a screen.

There's already support for agents written in javascript: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/app/models/age...

And for more substantial tasks it'd be possible to write an agent in another language and then call it from ruby in some way.

The best part of Huginn is being able to self-host and write any arbitrary agents you want.

I can see the direct resemblance between tracking the two... What I really don't understand is how you can't see the difference between tracking someone's online activities that they engage in through a web browser and tracking someone's physical location.

Those are very different things and they mean very different things in people's lives.

How do you feel about metaphors with obvious flaws?

There's no point in trying to assess any privacy claims they make — it's not a technological thing. The only value they offer is violating people's privacy.

This is a privacy nightmare.

Perhaps wifi devices should no longer provide constant MAC addresses....

It's possible that genetic factors count for more than everything else for certain people.

The family history profiled here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/health/seeking-clues-to-a-... sounds extremely similar.