Gongol.com Archives: June 2016
June 29, 2016
30-year-olds in 1975 versus that same cohort today
Today's 30-year-olds are better-educated, much less likely to have been married, vastly less likely to be living with a child, substantially less likely to be homeowners, and somewhat less likely to have achieved a middle-class income. Very interesting stuff.
Facebook changes news feed to favor people
The site is going to do whatever it takes to make sure that users visit as often as possible, for as long as possible. And if that means scaling back the amount of "publisher" content in favor of what individuals like and share, then that's what they're going to do. Woe unto any publisher that has built a business model off of social sharing, though -- which, anymore, is most of them.
A quick history of the $20 bill
Who belongs on the currency? Plenty of admirable people. There's room for Harriet Tubman there, too.
The robots are coming to take your jobs: The lawyerly edition
An "AI lawyer" is fighting tens of thousands of parking tickets and winning
Five Thirty-Eight forecasts overwhelming odds in favor of Hillary Clinton election
The former Secretary of State and Senator from New York may not be very popular, but she's running against someone whose celebrity is mainly based upon being a celebrity, and who cashed-in on his name by selling it to crooked licensees. As Benjamin Franklin sought to remind his contemporaries: Mind your business.
