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stas ([personal profile] stas) wrote2015-06-29 02:24 pm

линки недели - 25

Для нашего же блага

1. In Major Victory for Property Rights, SCOTUS Strikes Down USDA Seizure of California Raisins

2. L.A.'s Minimum Wage Hike: A Teaching Moment for Those Trying to Help the Underprivileged

3. How grand jury really works.

4. Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship Regime
Австралия гордо идёт по стопам Путина.

5. The bottled water ban did not reduce the number of bottles entering the waste stream from the university campus, the ultimate goal of the ban. With the removal of bottled water, consumers increased their consumption of less healthy bottled beverages.

6. Kagan 2009: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage”
Как много изменилось в американской Конституции всего за 6 лет!

7. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, has a big idea: launching organized-crime investigations under RICO against people and institutions that disagree with him about global warming.

8. The Faces of $15 - consequences of the minimal wage.

9. British Police Call On Nation To ‘Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife’ As ‘Knife Violence’ Continues
What’s next? “Don’t be a beast, surrender your fists!”

10. What is “excited delirium”?
Key words: All or nearly all of reported cases of excited delirium involve people who are in police custody or are fighting with the police.

Старомыслы не нутрят ангсоц

11. German advertisement laws:
Adult women — featured alone or otherwise — must not be shown “occupied in the household with pleasure.” And in one stipulation pounced upon by critics, the equal-opportunity board of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg — home to Checkpoint Charlie and remnants of the Berlin Wall — no longer wants to see images of women “smiling for no reason.”

12. Оказывается, журналистка, которая раздула историю с Тимом Хантом, склонна к довольно вольной интерпретации фактов. Кто бы мог подумать?!

13. Confederate Flag Purge Goes Nuts Almost Immediately, Hits Harmless Strategy Games

14. And the next victim of witch hunt:
Why was Rafe Esquith—a celebrated Los Angeles teacher with numerous achievements—suspended from class and forced to cancel his annual Shakespeare production? I previously reported that his alleged infraction was reading a colorful passage from Mark Twain, but according to new details in this Washington Post story, it’s actually a harmless, wholly inoffensive joke that got him in trouble.

Академия

15. How university alumni donations work.

16. Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, claims right-wing Jews and an “Islampohobic network” were “a key influence” to Dylann Roof’s rampage that killed nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C.

17. What is most of the higher education today.

18. Quotes from recommended essays for teachers to improve teaching African-American kids about science.

19. Какой экземпляр! In their view, she wrongly regards E=mc2 as a "sexed equation" because she argues that "it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us".
По-моему, это будет трудновато превзойти.
Чтоб вы не думали, что это какая-то просто безымянная блоггерша - это Director of Research in Philosophy во французском Институте Научных Исследований.

20. Фейнман и учебники.

Беспристрастная пресса

21. How a 16-year-old tricked the New York Times into reporting that Dylann Roof blogged about “My Little Pony”.
Because only professionals can!

Международная панорама

22. France Launches French Tech Ticket, A Startup Visa For Foreign Entrepreneurs
Пусть приезжают, комфортабельные тюремные камеры уже заготовлены!

23. Iran's support for international terror groups remained undiminished last year and even expanded some, despite its hopes for relief from global economic sanctions, the Obama administration has said.

Экономика

24. Very rich person in India (the average member of the top 5% of the Indian income distribution) is actually getting less than the average member of the bottom 5% of the U.S. income distribution.

25. The Tragedy of the Monet in the Basement

26. USPO hiring policies and why they don’t require degrees.

27. Прекрасная идея Форда - платить рабочим больше, чтобы они покупали его машины. Ну, то есть, прекрасная для тех, кто не знает арифметики.

Россия - щедрая душа

28. Русский рок 20 лет назад
Русский рок сейчас в России.
С одной стороны, говорят, каждый народ имеет то, чего заслуживает. С другой, жалко, конечно.

29. “Ополченец”.

Разное

30. Spoilers Don’t Spoil Anything.
I knew it!

31. Астрологу на заметку:
Lifetime disease risk is affected by birth month. Seasonally dependent early developmental mechanisms may play a role in increasing lifetime risk of disease.

32. Мужик найден в пустыне, со ртом, заклеенным липкой лентой, и пулей в голове. Никакого оружия рядом нет. Мафиозное убийство или… ?

[identity profile] spamsink.livejournal.com 2015-06-29 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Разница такая, что чем меньше вероятность наступления события, считающегося страховым случаем для данного конкретного полиса, тем меньше premium, очевидно.

[identity profile] spamsink.livejournal.com 2015-06-30 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ну я и говорю. "Хотите дешевле? Тогда можете приобрести полис без покрытия самоубийства. Вот, [смотрит по таблице], это обойдется вам в месяц на $N меньше".