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2021-01-14

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  • Submitted: "Faster, thinner: Colleges are swiftly trimming a B.A. degree to three years"

    3 points0 commentshechingerreport.org

    Colleges and universities, responding to demand for faster routes to jobs, are adding a new kind of degree: a reduced-credit bachelor’s degree that can be earned in three years instead of the usual…

  • Commented: "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

    > Near zero interest rates + COVID remote work + PPP loans = Booming economy

    One more factor to add to the equation...when everyone went remote during COVID, all brick-and-mortar businesses had to quickly move to conducting their businesses online driving demand for SWEs.

  • Commented: "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

    > Puff piece with 1000+ words that doesn't ever assert anything in particular that the author was wrong about

    His article mostly talks about other things but I think his title is sufficient. He says that he never thought that the news would become so unreliable that he would end up getting his news from randos on Bluesky who simply share what they know without an intention to monetize it.

  • Commented: "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

    More money is flowing into commodities. Gold price going up feeds into more mining.

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