Monthly Archives: May 2018

Youtube is Taking Down Conspiracy Theorist Channels and Popular Gun Videos | The Out Line

Posted on May 16, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

In the wake of the February 14 Parkland, FL school shooting, YouTube has banned a considerable number of the most egregious conspiracy peddlers and alt-righters from its ranks. The company also issued “warning strikes” and partial suspensions to a number of other channels, at least one of which was gun-focused. The move comes after months of scandals regarding the site’s inability to properly moderate the content published on its platform. The outcry reached a fever pitch last week when a conspiracy theory video suggesting that Parkland massacre victim David Hogg was a crisis actor was listed in the top trending spot on YouTube.

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Tagged alt-righters, conspiracy peddlers, you tube, You Tube content

How does a company’s CEO pay compare to its workers’? Now you can find out. | Vox

Posted on May 16, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

In 2018, corporate America will give up a data point it would probably rather keep under wraps: how much CEOs make in comparison to their employees.

For the first time, a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule mandated under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform requires publicly traded companies to disclose how their CEOs are compensated in comparison with their employees. In public filings, companies have to disclose their “pay ratios,” or the CEO’s compensation divided by the median employee’s. The numbers are pretty jarring.

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Tagged CEO pay, employee pay, ratio of CEO to employee pay, Securities and Exchange Commission rule

After being laid off, this 35-year-old founded NerdWallet with $800 — now it’s worth $500 million | CNBC

Posted on May 11, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Today, Tim Chen is CEO and co-founder of personal finance website NerdWallet, which sees 10 million monthly visitors and is valued at more than $500 million.

But in 2008, like so many others during the financial crisis, Chen found himself unemployed.

After spending four years working at hedge funds like Perry Capital and JAT Capital Management, he found out “basically on Christmas Day,” that he was being laid off, Chen tells CNBC Make It.

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Tagged Nerd Wallet, Tim Chen

High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University | NPR

Posted on May 11, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor’s degree.

“All through my life it was, ‘if you don’t go to college you’re going to end up on the streets,’ ” Morgan said. “Everybody’s so gung-ho about going to college.”

So he tried it for a while. Then he quit and started training as an ironworker, which is what he is doing on a weekday morning in a nondescript high-ceilinged building with a concrete floor in an industrial park near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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Tagged college, skilled trades, trade jobs

Prof Stephen Hawking’s multiverse finale | BBC

Posted on May 7, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Multiverse

Prof Stephen Hawking’s final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own.

The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist’s own making.

It also points a way forward for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes.

The study was submitted to the Journal of High-Energy Physics 10 days before Prof Hawking died.

In the 1980s, the Cambridge scientist, along with US physicist James Hartle developed a new idea about the beginning of the Universe.

This resolved a difficulty with Einstein’s theory that suggested that the Universe began nearly 14 billion years ago but said nothing about how it began.

Instead, the Hartle-Hawking idea used a different theory called quantum mechanics to explain how the Universe arose from nothingness.

The idea tied up one loose end but created another – an infinite number some might say.

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Tagged parallel universes, Prof Stephen Hawking, quantum mechanics

A South Korean university is building killer robots — and AI experts are not happy | Vice

Posted on May 7, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Some 50 artificial intelligence experts signed a letter Wednesday criticizing a South Korean university for collaborating with a weapons manufacturer to build killer robots.

Defense company Hanwha Systems, which already deploys autonomous weapons on the North Korean border, recently teamed up with the state-run Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to investigate further deployment of AI technology on the battlefield.

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Tagged Defense company Hanwha Systems, Hanwha Systems, Killer Robots, South Korean, South Korean university, United Nations

Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy | Wait But Why

Posted on May 2, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Say hi to Lucy.

Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y.

I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.

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Tagged generation y, insightful, personality traits

Are Millennials More Or Less Likely To Start Their Own Businesses? | Forbes

Posted on May 2, 2018 by jessicahwang1 | Leave a comment

Are Millennials More or Less Likely to Start Their Own Businesses?

The millennial generation is shaping the modern workforce—whether you like it or not. They’ve been blamed for a host of problems, such as being too entitled and obsessed with social media, and credited with several positives, such as appreciating creativity and having higher moral values. But of course, all of this depends on who you ask—some people claim these traits are inherent in the millennial generation, while others assert that they’re attributable to the coincidental youth of this particular generation or exist purely as anecdotal evidence.

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Tagged business, entrepreneurship, innovation, millennials, work