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Prime Age men may never return to workforce(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bwanab 9y ago|0 comments
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by bwanab 9y ago
In high school, I had a summer and after-school job cleaning a local horse stable. Up to then I'd had no introduction to horses. This job entailed being in the stalls with the individual horses and shoveling around them. Due to my prom
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by bwanab 9y ago
http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
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Welcome to HackerNews of the last year or so.
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DDG even allows users to add their own search prefixes. !mmls Margaret Atwood searches my local library system for the books by that author.
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by bwanab 9y ago
PPP adjusting makes sense when you compare countries in similar stages of development. As an example, Switzerland (in which I used to live) has a GDP per capita of $79,292 according to IMF. The US (where I live) has $57,436. Do people in Sw
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by bwanab 9y ago
This article from the NYTimes (paywall) caught my attention many years ago. Turns out it's from 2010 so about the same time as Dr. Mews prediction. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/health/27brod.htm
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by bwanab 9y ago
Maybe you've heard the old finance saying: "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
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They don't even seem to have a way to apply for an invite.
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I don't know. This makes me think of a piano that at random times plays a random note - and sometimes it sounds good. I guess the difference is that photography isn't real time, so the photographer can throw out all the ones that
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I hope it's only the next 15-20 years. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
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Yes, malls are all those things and I agree completely with your solutions, but malls aren't the worst - that, I'd say, are the drive-through mentality strip development stores that line suburban streets all over the US. At least
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by bwanab 9y ago
Presumably all those cameras on the car will have picked you out.
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They only have that right if we believe that it's ok for some people to shrug off the fact that they're contributing several times the amount of carbon into the atmosphere than they would otherwise.
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I miss the DC-8. Always my favorite jet in my younger days. Those things felt like rockets taking off.
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Lot's of people gave up on farming hardscrabble New England in the early part of the 20th century which resulted in reforestation. Farming is making a comeback in niche products, but nothing at the previous scales. This article (sorry
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by bwanab 9y ago
The good news is that now you /need to/ use your coding skills to have a career in finance. Almost all the young finance professionals at my place do a non-trivial amount of coding.
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Strong second for Richard Morgan and Altered Carbon. The story is gangbusters action fiction, but the thought he's given to the implications are spot on.
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Censorship is a valid concern, but I'm not sure what it has to do with on-line privacy.
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It can't happen here.
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I assume your amazement is because some states have such low rates. If so, this is very misleading since there are two competing tests in the US (ACT and SAT). The states that have low rates for SAT almost all have very high rates for ACT a
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That's exactly what I'm doing with my son. Couple of days in the mountains, then to middle TN to watch the eclipse. I'm not going to obsess over the weather! checks weather app for the eighth time today
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I agree with you in principle, but any city has to have the ability for delivery services and emergency vehicles to move around.
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Congestion? I don't think you're taking into account the huge advantage that autonomous cars have with respect to coordination among themselves. Much, if not most, congestion is caused by human drivers attempting to accrue advanta
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Back in my college days I had a summer job as an intern at a maximum security psychiatric hospital. My main ward was the admittance ward which was essentially where men accused of a crime were evaluated if their fitness to stand trial was i
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You assert that both sides have a profit motive, but there is a huge disparity in the quantity of profit. The fossil fuel energy companies profit to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. The academic lobby grants 1) are minuscule in
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by bwanab 9y ago
Right. And 100% wrong. By 2015, it was clear that the telcos and cable operators were determined to use their positions to extract more rent. So while it might be true that up until 2015 the internet was not broken, there's no guarante
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I agree this should be upvoted more than ten times. It's staggering to me that so many recent revelations have shown that in their efforts to protect us, the 3 letter agencies have allowed vulnerabilities to exist on our machines -- an
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You think his political stance is an attempt to build the conditions for another large tail risk payoff?
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In an interview on NPR, she said that they later became good friends and that he became a big supporter of women running.

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