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by a_c_s 10y ago
The average in-state tuition & fees at a public university in the USA is $9,410/year, ranging between $4,890 and $15,160 [1]. Unless otherwise specified, US publications tend to assume "college" = 4 year bachelor's d
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by a_c_s 10y ago
TouchID isn't to make you a better international spy, but rather to deal with realistic threats. The average person is much more likely to have their password stolen by somebody watching them enter it over and over every time they look
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by a_c_s 11y ago
In Paris were much friendlier to me once I started using French, rather than English, to ask if they spoke English.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
As a percentage of take home pay, those figures are quite plausible at least for NYC. Looks like StreetEasy agrees, putting the figure at 58.4% for all renters: http://streeteasy.com/blog/new-york-city-rent-affordabilit
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by a_c_s 11y ago
There isn't a valid warrant in this case though: instead there's a writ (aka an order by the government) under the All Writs Act. This act allows the government to compel a person/company to do something when there isn't
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I think your second group of numbers is off: -5C is 23F
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Looking at how quickly (in societal terms) the gay rights movement in the USA has progressed: the number one thing that changed people's minds was individuals coming out to their friends & family. It is easy to demonize people you&
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by a_c_s 11y ago
This is yet more speculation: while Google's efforts have produced cars that rely heavily on detailed pre-mapping of surroundings, there are others, such as MobilEye, who seek to have the car navigate with almost no pre-mapping. We hav
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by a_c_s 11y ago
How'd that work for pc makers? Their profit margins have shrunk from low to near-zero (>2.5%)[1] This is in contrast to Apple who has had healthy margins and have consistently improved market share nearly the last decade.[2] In the
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by a_c_s 11y ago
In this case the more non-threatening the cars are, the more likely people are to accept them.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
This is from 2006: surely by now there is more evidence to support/reject this hypothesis?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
The actual essay is well-worth a read: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Would you mind sharing what kind of vehicle you drive?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I have not, though the one time I used one of those machines the UI was very slow to respond to user input, which can be disorienting for anyone. Is it that they are all super-laggy, or are there other things that seem to trip people up?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Not necessarily - for some stores, such as Walgreens (a US drugstore chain), the checkout flows look something like this: Credit card: 1. Enter phone number (for loyalty card lookup) 2. Select "credit card" 3. Swipe card 4. Answe
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by a_c_s 11y ago
There's nothing 'ironic' about believing that different changes to language have different merits.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I recently served on a New York grand jury and in my experience the biggest problem was that in 38/40 cases we only heard one side of the story. There were two cases where the defendants testified. Like the other cases, the story of th
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Are parents for whom 1/3 of their children die as infants happier than those with children who live to adulthood? (Modern USA infant mortality is less than 0.6%)
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Interviews, for many people, are stressful in a way that jobs are not. Personally, the most stressful things I've had to do as a developer (including speaking in meetings large and small) are an order of magnitude less stressful than e
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by a_c_s 11y ago
France's 'standard of living' (measured in material goods) is quite high globally-speaking and not significantly lower than that of the USA. If you include intangibles like quality healthcare and reasonable amounts of vacatio
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by a_c_s 11y ago
There are three main categories for the underperforming group's failure: 1. Structural organization issues: for example, the clients of the underperforming datacenter group play political games that undermine the datacenter group and p
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Most employees end up with common shares, unlike the preferred shares that founders and VC's end up with. This can lead to situations where the VC's and founders make tons of money and employees get nothing. http://www.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Robo-advisors don't make money from money, they advise and robotically implement people's preferences on how to allocate their own money. Their strategies generally boil down to making it easy for somebody to buy a diversified por
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I've visited too, but I actually came away feeling optimistic about Indonesia (and not just because I loved the food!). Where were you that you were offered drugs? Places where Indonesians live or places where tourists go to party?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
This is both enlightening and depressing. We need to redefine "speedy trial" with a more common-sense definition. Six months, even without the technicalities of clock-stoppages, is in no way, shape or form a "speedy" tri
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by a_c_s 11y ago
High levels of funding != quality education. Washington DC schools recently celebrated a rise in graduation rate, to 64%. [1] My brother went to public high school in Washington DC graduating in 2008. His school had tracking, meaning you co
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by a_c_s 11y ago
The piece was also in line with numerous previous reports on Amazon's working conditions for both blue collar and white collar employees.
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He publishes his family's spending every year: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/01/16/exposed-the-mmm-fa...
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Amazon's prices for the dry goods I buy (cereals, energy bars) are now often comparable or more expensive than buying locally here in Manhattan. (The grocery stores I am comparing are on my walk home from my subway stop) When I was in
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Is there a better introductory article you can recommend?

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