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Deltagandet i folkomröstningen om samkönade äktenskap var ovanligt högt i flera distrikt i Irland, skriver tidningen Irish Times. I delar av Dublin uppges deltagandet ha nått 70 procent.

sciencehabit writes: One of the most important questions relating to incarceration and rehabilitation is how to discourage recidivism. After a prison stint, about half of convicts wind up back in the slammer within three years. But sociologist David Kirk noticed a pattern: convicts who moved away from their old neighborhood when released from prison had a much smaller recidivism rate. Kirk found that the concentration of former prisoners in a neighborhood had a dramatic effect on the likelihood of committing another offense (abstract). "So if an ex-con’s average chance of returning to prison after just 1 year was 22%—as it was in 2006—an additional new parolee in the neighborhood boosted that chance to nearly 25%. The numbers climb for each new parolee added. In some of the most affected neighborhoods—where five of every thousand residents were recent parolees—nearly 35% were back behind bars within a year of getting out." The rates stayed consistent even when controlling for chronic poverty and other neighborhood characteristics.

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Eiffeltornet, synonym med staden Paris, fick stänga på fredagen. Personalen vägrade jobba i protest mot de ficktjuvsgäng som härjar kring turistmagneten.

Inför hundratusentals människor och flera latinamerikanska statsöverhuvuden förklarar katolska kyrkan i dag den salvadoranska ärkebiskopen Óscar Arnulfo Romero för martyr. Länge stod hans kritik mot krigsårens militärregim i vägen, men i dag hyllas han av hela El Salvador.

USA:s president Barack Obama gav premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu svar på tal i en synagoga. Han sa att har gjort mer än alla andra för Israels säkerhet och är lika angelägen om att Iran aldrig ska kunna bygga en atombomb.

Kina satsar på att bygga ekostäder för att rädda miljön. SvD fick besöka Tianjin Eco-city, en kinesisk-singaporiansk jättesatsning och den ekostad som kommit längst. Mycket tyder dock på att det hade varit bättre att uppgradera befintliga städer.

Migrationsverket kan komma att räkna upp prognosen för antal ensamkommande asylsökande barn till 10 000 i år, skriver svd.se. I den senaste prognosen från slutet av april reviderades siffran till 8 000, men den kan alltså höjas ytterligare till nästa prognos i juli.

This was originally going to be an interview about the state of enterprise-level backup software in an increasingly edge computing-focused world, but we rapidly drifted into talking about how Druva started in Pune (near Bangalore) and ended up moving to Silicon Valley. We hear plenty about American software companies moving to India, but not a lot about Indian software companies moving here. Druva had good reasons for the move, the chief one being a financing deal with Sequoia Capital. Aside from that, though, Jaspreet says the talent pool -- not just developers but software marketing people and other important staffers -- is more concentrated in Silicon Valley than almost anywhere else in the world. 'It's like Hollywood for geeks,' Jaspreet says. This doesn't mean business is necessarily easy in the USA: Jaspreet ended up laying off his entire staff. Twice. And he made other mistakes as a young, new CEO bringing a company to life in a crowded field. Those mistakes, which Jaspreet shares freely with us, are like a business school 'Start-Up Pitfalls' class. You may never want to do your own startup, but if you're a developer or otherwise involved with the software industry, there's a good chance that you'll have a chance to work for one at some point. And if you have that chance, you'll be glad you watched this video (or read the transcript) before you take the startup plunge.