Archive - March, 2017

The Death Of A US Contractor Has Exposed America’s Failures In Syria

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“As he lay there getting grilled, he realized he didn’t actually know the answers. While he had served in the US Army for 23 years, now he was a just private contractor, one of the legions of former soldiers who perform jobs once carried out by the US military. He’d been hired for this contract […]

Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs

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” The researchers said they were surprised to see very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. That increase could still happen, they said, but for now there are large numbers of people out of work, with no clear path forward — especially blue-collar men without college degrees.” Researchers […]

The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them

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“Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about “consumer choice” and “free markets,” as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet […]

The DECK | The premier ad network for reaching web, design & creative professionals

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Sad to see The DECK shut down. One of the few remaining honest ad networks out there. When good products can’t sustain themselves without implementing bad practices there’s something wrong with the ecosystem. We started The Deck in 2006 and for the first couple years it struggled. By 2008, it was an OK business and […]