"Most domestic minors in the sex industry are not kidnapping victims. They’re children who have fallen out with their parents (often because they are gay or trans), or been forced from their homes, and who sell sex to survive. And the biggest danger they face is not from organized rings of predatory criminals, but from the police." New Republic
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Amazing speech. "The Australian Dream is rooted in racism."
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Legit criticism: given that it's created with literal magic, the candy in the Harry Potter universe is definitely disappointing
"Think about that: The candy is imbued with magic, but instead of giving your tongue an orgasm or changing flavors to adapt to your mood or making everything you eat taste like candy for the rest of the day, the chocolate frog just tries to escape. As if the one thing missing from my real-life candy experience is that it isn't a big enough pain in the ass."
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"The Economist had a remarkable statistic. The IMF makes forecasts for every country every April. There have been 220 instances across several decades and some number of countries where growth was positive in year T and negative in year T+1. Of those 220 instances, the IMF predicted it in April in precisely zero of those 220 instances. So the fact that there’s a sense of complacency and relative comfort should give very little comfort." Marginal Revolution
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Heh
Google AI researchers have beaten Go.
"our program AlphaGo achieved a 99.8% winning rate against other Go programs, and defeated the human European Go champion by 5 games to 0. This is the first time that a computer program has defeated a human professional player in the full-sized game of Go, a feat previously thought to be at least a decade away."
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"black women’s emotional labor is more exhausting and strenuous because it lies at the intersection between the demands that are bestowed upon our womanhood and the demands that come with presenting our blackness as fit for public consumption in a white supremacist society." Scenarios
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Ugh :(
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"The military governments [of Burma] adhered to a strict labor code for elephants drawn up in British colonial times: eight-hour work days and five-day weeks, retirement at 55, mandatory maternity leave, summer vacations and good medical care. There are still elephant maternity camps and retirement communities run by the government. In a country where the most basic social protections were absent during the years of dictatorship, elephant labor laws were largely respected, partly because an overworked elephant is a very dangerous animal," NY Times
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Some helpful tips for getting to sleep in here
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Great work by James Mackenzie, co-authoring a report advocating a Basic Income Guarantee in the UK! It's very heartening to see costing and other questions of implementation worked out in detail
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Good piece, summarising where things stand on the use of ketamine as a rapid-acting antidepressant
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How much of an indictment would it be on all of us if we aren't able to accomplish open borders in the remaining 84 years of this century?
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What an amazing person and amazing story
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This is horrible :(
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Amazing speech. "The Australian Dream is rooted in racism."
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Legit criticism: given that it's created with literal magic, the candy in the Harry Potter universe is definitely disappointing
"Think about that: The candy is imbued with magic, but instead of giving your tongue an orgasm or changing flavors to adapt to your mood or making everything you eat taste like candy for the rest of the day, the chocolate frog just tries to escape. As if the one thing missing from my real-life candy experience is that it isn't a big enough pain in the ass."
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"The Economist had a remarkable statistic. The IMF makes forecasts for every country every April. There have been 220 instances across several decades and some number of countries where growth was positive in year T and negative in year T+1. Of those 220 instances, the IMF predicted it in April in precisely zero of those 220 instances. So the fact that there’s a sense of complacency and relative comfort should give very little comfort." Marginal Revolution
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Heh
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Google AI researchers have beaten Go.
"our program AlphaGo achieved a 99.8% winning rate against other Go programs, and defeated the human European Go champion by 5 games to 0. This is the first time that a computer program has defeated a human professional player in the full-sized game of Go, a feat previously thought to be at least a decade away."
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"black women’s emotional labor is more exhausting and strenuous because it lies at the intersection between the demands that are bestowed upon our womanhood and the demands that come with presenting our blackness as fit for public consumption in a white supremacist society." Scenarios
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Ugh :(
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"The military governments [of Burma] adhered to a strict labor code for elephants drawn up in British colonial times: eight-hour work days and five-day weeks, retirement at 55, mandatory maternity leave, summer vacations and good medical care. There are still elephant maternity camps and retirement communities run by the government. In a country where the most basic social protections were absent during the years of dictatorship, elephant labor laws were largely respected, partly because an overworked elephant is a very dangerous animal," NY Times
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Some helpful tips for getting to sleep in here
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Great work by James Mackenzie, co-authoring a report advocating a Basic Income Guarantee in the UK! It's very heartening to see costing and other questions of implementation worked out in detail
>>><<<
Good piece, summarising where things stand on the use of ketamine as a rapid-acting antidepressant
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How much of an indictment would it be on all of us if we aren't able to accomplish open borders in the remaining 84 years of this century?
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What an amazing person and amazing story
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This is horrible :(
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