[...] cities no longer offer low-skilled workers the economic advantages they once did, according to new analysis by the M.I.T. economist David Autor.
A great series of essays on the impact of technology, privitization, globalization, probability, and governance. The kicker is probably:
As time passes and a community grows, the odds of someone from it doing something bizarrely awful go from slim, to high, to near-certain.
What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.
This is way too much my life.
"There are car thieves, package thieves and air conditioning thieves," reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "But St. Louis larceny reached a new milestone Saturday when burglars drove off with a whole house."
States, municipalities and the federal government have spent billions to draw jobs and prosperity to stagnant rural areas. But they haven't yet figured out how to hitch this vast swath of the country to the tech-heavy economy that is flourishing in America's cities.
"I don't think most Americans realize how insecure U.S. telephone networks are," Wyden said in a statement. "If more consumers knew how easy it is for bad guys to track or hack their mobile phones, they would demand the FCC and wireless companies do something about it. These aren't just hypotheticals."
I'm glad we have at least one tech-savvy Senator.
Be a philanthropist with your knowledge, a freight train with your work, and indifferent about your reputation.
— Jonathan Zdziarski, "Living with Depression in Tech"
We do precision guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.