America’s elite colleges struggle to integrate low-income students
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Mario Batali’s restaurants in Las Vegas will close
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Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years
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Spotify Eases ‘Hateful Conduct’ Playlist Policy After Outcry
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Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
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May 24 or before
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Acer’s Predator Helios 500 gaming laptop is a Core i9 powerhouseThere are also Nitro and Predator Orion desktops.
Both the Orion 5000 and Nitro 50 will reach North America in July with starting prices of $1,499 and $799. If you’re looking for the $999 Orion 3000, you’ll have to wait until October.
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Sony says it’s the beginning of the end for PS4
The whole statement is largely designed to reassure investors that all is well, and it is, save for PSVR and Vue, both of which are performing below expectations. Again, no specifics on how PlayStation plans to tackle that beyond “increasing user engagement”, but Kodera seems unfazed, noting that the company will aim for more “realistic” growth in the coming period.
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Is bitcoin being manipulated by traders? The US government has opened a criminal probe
Note that this has been ongoing. If I am not mistaken bloomberg has been reporting on this back to at least January.
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Brothel ban question divides residents in Nevada county
Opinion:
Note that this article states the claim that legal prostitution somehow increases illegal prostitution. And there is data that illegal prostitution has been putting legal, regulated, brothels out of business. Nineteen brothels operate in Nevada, down from 36 in the peak years of the mid-1980s. There are some counties where brothels are legal but where none exists because illegal prostitution makes the tightly regulated business in a questionable economy difficult. Nevada was hit hard by the 2008 crash.
But the suggestion, the correlation, that somehow the legal brothels are what has increased illegal prostitution is not valid. Also, the arguments from religious groups that all prostitution is about human trafficking is stupid. Conflating the two separate issues as though they are the same issue is stupid. Thinking you are helping prostitutes by listening to people who hate prostitutes is upside down and crazy. Don’t pretend you are trying to help someone when the obvious agenda is to hurt someone.
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