Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Attending America’s “dream school” is a financial nightmare. New York University, routinely described by American high schoolers and their parents as one of their top “dream schools,” is one of the most popular application choices for aspiring college students. According to the university’s admissions department, 60,322 people applied for admission to NYU’s Class of 2019, a…
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A man following his vehicle’s GPS navigation drove the couple’s car off a partially demolished bridge. (Ken Davidson/Northwest Indiana Gazette) A Chicago woman was killed after her husband followed their car’s GPS navigation off a partially demolished bridge that has been closed since 2009, according to reports. Zohra Hussain, 51, died after their Nissan Sentra…
Thirty-one-year-old comic Trevor Noah was hired to replace Jon Stewart yesterday, and the backlash has already arrived with a vengeance. Noah has a large following in his native South Africa, and has toured extensively abroad, but he isn’t so well-known in the U.S. — to date, he has three “Daily Show” “correspondent” appearances under his…
A family-owned pizza shop in small-town Indiana has become one of the first businesses to publicly show support for the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by making sure everyone knows they would never, ever, ever — not in a million years! — agree to cater a same-sex wedding. Crystal O’Connor says her family’s restaurant,…
Judge Reinhold HATES unlimited data throttling.Paramount Pictures cache hit 151:single/related:f4abdf163e42c664807821ea6f25a29b empty A federal judge has rejected AT&T’s claim that it can’t be sued by the Federal Trade Commission, which is trying to put a stop to the carrier’s throttling of unlimited data plans. The FTC sued AT&T in October 2014, saying the company deceived customers…
In 2003, a multifaceted lifestyle crisis that I’d been cultivating for two years went supernova. During a Top 5 of All-Time hangover, I hatched swift and irreversible plans to quit my nine-year career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, sell my house, car and all my belongings, and flee the country. I told my…
Photo Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday to deal with the drought. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Video close media-action-overlay California’s Extreme Drought, Explained The state is experiencing the worst drought in its history. Find out just how…
Just in time for Holy Week, the State of Indiana has passed a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law explicitly permits for-profit corporations from practicing the “free exercise of religion” and it allows them to use the “exercise of religion” as a defense against any lawsuits whether from the government or from private entities….
Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React’s composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It’s more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code. <br /> Flux applications have three major…