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The Loss of Skill in the Industrial Revolutiongrowthecon.wordpress.com
There's a recent working paper by Alexandra de Pleijt and Jacob Weisdorf that looks at skill composition of the English workforce from 1550 through 1850. They do this by looking at the occupational... - blog.humphd.org
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Z-Quads: Constructionblog.quenta.org
This post is about a spatial coordinate system I've been playing around with, z-quads. Unlike the existing coordinate systems I could find described on the web, a z-quad doesn't represent a point b... -
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Shift Happens: Apple + IBM. This Time It’ll Be Different.mondaynote.com
Strategic Alliances and other grandly named partnerships never seem to live up to their florid marriage announcements. Apple and I -
PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time To Fix PACER | Techdirttechdirt.com
For years, we've talked about the many problems with PACER, the horribly designed and managed electronic court records system that the federal court system uses here in the US. Beyond being clunky, buggy, horribly designed and slow -- it's... -
ICREACH: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google -firstlook.org
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, acc... -
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McDonald's Faces 'Millennial' Challengeonline.wsj.com
Behind McDonald's worst slump in a decade is a trend that may augur even tougher times ahead: The Golden Arches is losing its luster with younger consumers. -
Why the Google-Twitch Deal Fell Apart - The Informationtheinformation.com
Top executives at Google’s YouTube video unit saw Twitch, the online video-game broadcaster, as the ESPN of the future. When longtime Google executive Susan Wojcicki became chief of YouTube in February, those executives convinced her to pursu... - logicaltypes.blogspot.com
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HubSpot files for $100 million IPO - HubSpot files for $100 million IPObetaboston.com
Today, HubSpot, the Cambridge-based marketing software company, filed the much-awaited plans for its initial public offering of stock. -
[Six Questions] | Astra Taylor on The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age | Harper's Magazineharpers.org
Astra Taylor discusses the potential and peril of the Internet as a tool for cultural democracy - locationplay.blogspot.com
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News Feed FYI: Click-baiting | Facebook Newsroomnewsroom.fb.com
Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant. -
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
After months of rumors suggesting that Google was prepped to snatch up Twitch, word broke this morning that Amazon had crashed the party and was about to.. -
San Francisco Open Exchange Aims To Be The E-Trade Of Bitcoin | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Y Combinator-backed startup San Francisco Open Exchange (SFOX) is an online trading platform that helps people find the best bitcoin prices at various..
