Friday, August 24, 2018

Things I learned lately 24 Aug


  • Google Chrome plans to stop supporting Flash web content by 2020. As it is, you'll have to enable flash web site by web site.
  • If you omit the terrorist attacks on September 11, in 41 years (1975-2015) only 41 US citizens were killed by a foreign born terrorist. In 30 of those 41 years, nobody was killed in such an attack.
  • Roughly 1.6% of immigrant males age 18-39 are incarcerated in the US, compared to 3.3% of the native-born. That's less than half.
  • Cameron Crowe only got to direct the movie he wrote, Say Anything, because nobody else was available. He had never done it before and really had no idea what he was doing. He didn't even consider doing scenes from multiple angles until people told him it was something he had to do.
  • Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office estimates that 39% of university grads and 33% of college grads are overqualified for their current jobs.
  • In Canada, 62.6% of 20-24 year olds still live with their parents.
  • Visible minorities make up 51.4% of the population of urban Toronto.

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