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How Facebook Knows What You Really Like
wired.com 2 days, 15 hours agoToday -- May 24 -- marks the fifth anniversary of the Facebook Platform, a set of tools that let outside companies and developers build applications and websites that plug into Zuckerberg's massive social network. Zuckerberg has long pointed to this platform as the key to Facebook's future -- and even the future of the web at large.
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What Austerity Looks Like, In Three Graphs
washingtonpost.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis is what austerity looks like: What you’re seeing there is the unemployment rate and the structural budget deficit across all of Europe. “Structural budget deficit” is a technical term: It means the deficit that’s been created by what the government is doing rather than what the economy is doing. If policy were “expansionary” ,which is the opposite of austere , the structural deficit would rise when unemployment rises, because the government would be spending more to support the economy. Instead, it’s f










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