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The only reliable way is to have the clause negotiated into a union contract which also has a "just cause" termination clause. One more reason to for tech workers to start organizi…

This is pretty interesting too: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-sedan-vs... Same car has grown by 5% over 15 years.

A domain name can go away just as easily, maybe more easily than a popular URL shortening service.

Try https://www.newsblur.com/ it does a lot of what you're asking for and works well on web and mobile app.

It's only a tradeoff if you assume that the process must be automated and operate with a minimum of actual human scrutiny or consideration. Any qualified human review would immedia…

Well, almost no one does, but someone has filed a whistle-blower claim with the IRS that this pricing arrangement is an illegal tax dodge: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/your-m…

There are! We're hiring for lots of open technology jobs here https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech For backend specifically, on the CMS team there's this job https://ny…

We're hiring! You should apply! https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Tech/job/New-York-NY/S...

This is like a less thought out version of the carbon fee and dividend plan https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/ that has wide ranging support - though not fro…

This section is troubling. > In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with…

You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Think about what's on the x-axis here. The graph is really…

They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing. And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mech…

GDP growth and income growth are not equivalent - for example, corporate profits that aren't distributed would count towards GDP but not towards individual incomes.

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That's definitely not the case... Journals provide news outlets with complimentary copies of papers specifically so that they can be written about. Often, but not always, they're e…

It's really depressing how cynical that is. (Developer working at the NYTimes here). The actual reason links to studies are often left off articles (particularly in cases like this…

If your mental model for something is so malleable that it can explain cancer and police corruption the same way, maybe it's not actually providing any insight and all you've done …

No. The desire to translate all nutritional research into diet advice is what leads to fad diets and horrific misunderstanding of what science knows and doesn't know about nutritio…

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This is indeed a manual switch in the CMS that human editors decide to turn on for certain stories. (Source: I work at the Times)

Here's the developer overview: https://developer.apple.com/researchkit/researchkit-technica... It appears to mostly be an iOS UI toolkit of sorts for easing the creation of individ…