#Tech

This article confuses a couple of distinct matters. It’s one thing to say that privacy is an aspect of product quality, cognizable under the consumer welfare standard. But that doesn’t
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With regards to online learning, it seems unwise for the government to create a law that schools simply cannot follow, and which schools in the most deprived areas will find
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same story every single time - if govt would properly fund + support + be accountable for the health and safety of every single person in this country, they could
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Excited to announce a new report today: Not Just Tech. https://www.upwork.com/mc/documents/Not_Just_Tech_Report_May_2021.pdf A quick thread: There is a lot of debate about which companies will stay remote & also which will
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One thing I've noticed in the tech industry is an unwillingness to train new employees. A huge part of the reason they're over-reliant on H1B visas, is not only because
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Changing careers is hard, especially in your 30s or beyond.DO NOT SELL YOURSELF SHORT by wiping your resume clean: I guarantee there is crossover with tech/programming worth highlighting.Here are FIVE
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Science incorporated a business model. Biotech alone has become a multi-million dollar industry, and it's bleeding into how all science whether basic, clinical, modular are being pushed, funded, and reported
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Some thoughts on collapse of digital tax talks. While this is routinely presented in Ireland as ‘bad news’ for the economy, in truth the OECD process never had enough ‘bite’
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When you were on the job market (and I mean academic and #altac), how many jobs did you apply for before you found the one? For the record, I'm at
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My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up
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so a year ago, in as close to a fury as I've ever gotten while writing, I wrote about Shaun King. Afterwards, I started to wonder if I'd get pushback
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Look carefully at what Twitter is saying to justify censoring the Biden story. If applied consistently, it’d mean that some of history’s most consequential journalism — the Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks’
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We need more women/non-binary/POC in tech to help educate the men who have historically built most of the block/ban/abuse tools on social media sites to show them just *how many*
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ALRIGHT GUYS. i like big mountains and i cannot lie. can we do a mountain thread? i wanna see them all—tall bois, pointy bois, snowy bois, sunsets and mountains, sunrises
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1. What will Facebook's pay-by-location move mean for cities/tech hubs - A little riff on this interesting story in @FT:https://www.ft.com/content/1c52a7a2-aa65-11ea-abfc-5d8dc4dd86f9 2. First and foremost, for all those who think this
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I moved to business at the Mercury News in 2011 - there were more than a dozen staff dedicated to tech coverage.Today: ZeroAlden Global completely destroyed a storied home for
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