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Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis
It seems that diversity training programs generally fail at their stated goals, and often produce unfortunate and unintended consequences.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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What happened to all the non-programmers? (2015)
As I looked around and realized for the hundredth time that I was surrounded by people exactly like me, something inside me snapped. I downloaded the latest American Community Survey microdata, fired up R and started calculating feverishly.
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American Airlines Bans Wearing Too Much Personal Protection Equipment on Board
It's not just passengers refusing to wear personal protection equipment that's a problem at the airline. It seems another problem is passengers who wear too much. So last week American Airlines sent a memo to its customer care agents on "Prohibited Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)."
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Assange Hearing Day 10
The gloves were off on Tuesday as the US Government explicitly argued that all journalists are liable to prosecution under the Espionage Act (1917) for publishing classified information, citing the Rosen case. Counsel for the US government also argued that the famous Pentagon Papers supreme court judgement on the New…
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Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
Today Apple announced at their media event that the final public release of iOS 14 ships tomorrow, which came as quite a shock to all third-party developers.
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When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
Do not get arrested challenge 2020
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How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles-- the next 5 million is getting harder Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for free online for years. With a quick…
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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
Some ideas for socially valuable research topics across 19 fields.
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Microsoft Statement on TikTok
ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft. We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for…
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Nature's Decline Unprecedented; Species Extinction Rates Accelerating (2019)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet
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Your Phone Is Your Castle
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Fuck Cloud Messaging
Ever tried to send a push notification to your phone? How hard can it be? I was surprised when I tried to push a simple push notification without involving a third party. It's not just hard they have made it near impossible to send a simple push notification without subscribing to their service. Moreover it doesn't…
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I Want to Fix Goodreads
I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s ...
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Why do so many people want us back in the office?
After the sudden and miraculous shift to remote work – the office fightback has well and truly begun.
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Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/instagram-pushes-back-on-apples-ios-ad-tracking-change.html
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What's wrong with social science and how to fix it
Replication, citations, power, incentives, and more.
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Update on My Situation
It’s been two and a half months since I deleted the blog, so I owe all of you an update on recent events. I haven’t heard anything from the New York Times one way or the other. Since no…
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IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns the reported mistreatment of Julian Assange during his United States extradition trial in February 2020, and urges the government of the United Kingdom to take action to protect him. According to his lawyers, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11…
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Assange Hearing Day 8
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defence witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler – he would), and more importantly, why? QC’s representing governments usually seek to radiate calm control, and treat defence arguments as almost…
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More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy
Google searches for privacy-focused Gmail alternatives have steadily increased since 2019. We examine the numbers and potential reasons why.
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Assange Hearing Day 7
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and…
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What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.
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Archiving URLs (2019)
Archiving the Web, because nothing lasts forever: statistics, online archive services, extracting URLs automatically from browsers, and creating a daemon to regularly back up URLs to multiple sources.
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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Ads are awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic that make the platform's value extremely dubious, according to a new study from RMG.
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GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn
TL;DR: If you have a LinkedIn account, you were signed up to SlideShare automatically without your knowledge or consent. Your account including all your personal information will be sold to ScribD …