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Chris Omani, a driver for ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft, filling up his car's gas tank last week in Minneapolis. Photo: David Joles/Minneapolis Star Tribune/Zuma Press By Jan. 7, 2019 5:30 a.m. ET WASHINGTON—Two leading experts on the “gig economy” now say their estimates of its impact were too…

712 Share One of the things that makes humans so special is the fact that we've befriended a bunch of other animals and gotten them to work together with us. It's true of dogs, cats, horses, and even cows (it hasn't always worked out great for the animals in question). But there's a pretty sizeable…

This is the sixth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by the most of the American media. By one measure, Wisconsin was the most important state in the nation in November. According to…

DealBook Income Sharing Agreements are gaining the attention of higher education and Wall Street. One early success story is getting a boost from venture capital. Purdue University has begun experimenting with a program that charges no upfront tuition, but requires graduates to pay back a percentage…

Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not for the cops, but for private individuals and businesses. Armed with just the number and a few hundred dollars, he said he could find the current location of…

Death to Lifestyle Businesses, Long Live Revenue-Backed Businesses! I’ve written it before, and I’ll write it again. Venture Capital is a great source of start up capital, but it’s only the right fit for a small percentage of companies. MOST businesses do not raise any outside capital. Businesses…

Shortly before Christmas, Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, was about to sign a deal that would have changed everything for him and his company. His largest financial backer, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, was prepared to give him enough money to fuel not only WeWork’s ongoing and massive growth plans, but…

At a company-wide town hall in early October, numerous Facebook employees got in line to speak about their experiences with sexual harassment. The company called the special town hall after head of policy Joel Kaplan caused an internal uproar for appearing at the congressional hearing for Judge…

Kapil Gupta Jan 7 This discourse is not written for your betterment. It is not written in order to make you understand. It is not written for your health. It is just written. A human being spends his entire life hankering for that which he does not have. While, at first, this might sound like an…

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks to the crowd at his Turn out For Texas Rally, featuring a concert by Wille Nelson, in Austin, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Just before the new year, Steve Phillips, senior fellow at…

Apple CEO Tim Cook starts his morning routine -- not just his morning, his morning routine -- at 3:45. General Motors CEO Mary Barra gets to the office by 6 a.m. Best-selling author Dan Brown ( The Da Vinci Code , etc.) gets up at 4 a.m., has a smoothie and a cup of bulletproof coffee, and then…

Netflix said more than 45 million accounts watched "Bird Box" in the movie's first week. That's a record for a Netflix movie, according to the streamer. Netflix did not specify how many viewers actually finished the movie, though. Over 45 million accounts have watched Netflix's new original…

Mar 18, 2015 at 8:03 pm #1326999 Jamie Barnes BPL Member @jbarnes215 I've never been to Philmont. Have talked to several who have, read forums and trip reports, etc. etc. We are planning a 2017 Philmont trip. Starting to think/plan/gear update, etc. One of my things I'm trying to figure out is how…

"Everything Is Fake": Ex-Reddit CEO Confirms Internet Traffic Metrics Are Bullshit by Fri, 12/28/2018 - 07:44 27.1K SHARES Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print "It's all true: Everything is fake," tweeted Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao regarding a Wednesday New York Magazine article which reveals that…

The US Environmental Protection Agency has, of late, been operating on the principle that you can prevent environmental disasters by simply getting rid of the environment. As part of this mission, the EPA has considered a plan to put climate science up for public debate. This “Red Team, Blue Team”…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said the find was made during recent excavations of Popoloca Indian…

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Lexi Alexander is easy enough to spot on a set: She’s the one in the middle of the huddle, surrounded on all sides by men—cameramen, stuntmen, sound guys, lighting guys, even a Guy Holding a Fake But Very Real-Looking Gun—and throwing punches around. Alexander is a film and television director, and…

In a milestone that underscores China’s ambition to become a global leader in space exploration, the Chang’e-4 lunar lander became the first space vehicle to touch down on the far side of the moon, where it began to explore terrain that had never before been reached. Advertisement > Chang’e-4,…

Senor Salme Most AI giants on the internet rely on the continuous collection of personal data from their users, primarily to build and maintain machine-learning models. These models are often core to the value proposition of these companies, providing recommendations, behavioural analytics and…

Do not hold (NASDAQ: USLV ) for more than 3 months as you will inevitably experience big decay. If you want to hold Silver indefinitely (NYSE: SLV ) is the best play in the markets. Nevertheless ProShares Ultra Silver (NASDAQ: AGQ ) & (NASDAQ: USLV ) are favored for investors who like to trade short…

Hi Everyone. Happy 2019. Today, as is my custom on the first day of the new year, I am going to take a stab at what the year ahead will bring. I find it useful to think about what we are in for. It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of…

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J ust a few years ago Yuval Noah Harari was an obscure Israeli historian with a knack for playing with big ideas. Then he wrote Sapiens , a sweeping, cross-disciplinary account of human history that landed on the bestseller list and remains there four years later. Like Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs…

For eight months this year, I used a flip phone. For most of those eight months, I hated myself and everyone else. Frankly, I’m embarrassed to write about this semifailed experiment. Disconnection has become the most congratulated, least convincing narrative gimmick of recent times, a widely…

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Why would someone want a rifle or carbine that shoots pistol-caliber 9mm ammo? If you use it for home defense, it would be so loud indoors. Isn’t a rifle or carbine like this as loud as a shotgun or larger caliber gun? What would you use it for? Plinking or home defense or what? Isn’t the recoil…

English translations of foreign-language science fiction are becoming more common, still, they face an uphill battle. The American market is already crowded with books written by native English speakers, and it takes a conscientious reader to seek out treasures that originate from other parts of the…

Amazon seems determined to have a Game of Thrones -sized success of its own, recently teaming up with J.R.R. Tolkien’s for a Lord of the Rings TV series that could reportedly cost up to $500 million. They’re not stopping there. This week, the Financial Times reports that the studio is in talks to…

By Dec. 27, 2018 11:48 a.m. ET Photo: Photo Illustration: WSJ; Photos: Old Farmer's Almanac, Farmers' Almanac LEWISTON, Maine—Gail Gabel was delighted when the Old Farmer’s Almanac came out in August with its prediction for a mild winter. Ms. Gabel, a 50-year-old resident of Sidney, Ohio, sent her…

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“Fatherly Advice” is a weekly parenting advice column by the experts at Fatherly. Need hard-won insights and scientific facts to resolve a parenting dilemma or family dispute? Email advice@fatherly.com . Need justifications for parenting decisions you’ve already made? Ask someone else. We’re far too…

Einstein had what might be called a night-sky theology, a sense of the awesomeness of the universe that even atheists and materialists feel. Photograph by Ernst Haas / Getty Albert Einstein’s so-called God letter first surfaced in 2008, when it fetched four hundred and four thousand dollars in a…

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The American constitutional restoration movement known as MAGA is now entering its most crucial phase. Like all revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements, it is time for it to find out the answer to the BIG QUESTION: is the American military with all its branches of service, all its chain of…

Witchcraft is thriving in the US, with an estimated 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches - more than the total number of Presbyterians. As Christianity declines across the country, paganism has swung to the mainstream, with witchcraft paraphernalia for sale on every high street and…

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An auto-da-fé for condemned heretics during the Spanish Inquisition Ipsumpix / Corbis / Getty Images In 1492, best known as the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Spain also decided to expel all practicing Jews from its kingdom. Jews who did not leave—and were not murdered—were forced to become…