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   by flexie 11y ago

   Thank you for the honesty. It is a touchy subject. Whereas there are several examples of graduates or dropouts within humanities who did very well for themselves (most famously superstars as Zuckerberg, Jobs and PG) it's almost always
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   Star Wars fans and video game geeks 'more likely to be narcissists', study finds(independent.co.uk)

   6 points by flexie 11y ago|0 comments
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   by flexie 11y ago

   Sure, but a homicide rate of 2.5 per 100,000 only explains a fraction of the incarceration rate of 256 per 100,000 (although much more than the 1 percent since homicide is in average punished with longer sentences). The rest is due to incar
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   by flexie 11y ago

   This bug almost looks like a feature to me. The actual bug is the criminal justice politics that has resulted in an incarceration rate of 256 in such a wealthy and homogeneous society as Washington state. The incarceration rate in Washingto
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   by flexie 11y ago

   Stop ripping people off with Eastern European wine? Really? That's what they did?
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   by flexie 11y ago

   Law is a middle class profession for most lawyers. Very few lawyers make anywhere near $1M per year. I guess that the number of US attorneys consistently making $1M yearly is in the hundreds or low thousands. Median salary for lawyers is $1
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   by flexie 11y ago

   Here's the thing: the guy is stopped because he's black, average size and wears a knitted hat during the winter. It's like being stopped because you are white, average size and wear a baseball cap. Would that ever happen? Ver
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   by flexie 11y ago

   I would say weather, obesity and technology also play major roles, possibly more than "fashion" or maybe creating fashion. Weather: During the 20th century Americans have increasingly moved west and south to warmer climates (go ba
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   by flexie 11y ago

   I easily understood that sentence first time I read it and so did 'mreiland'. Don't mind these silly comments.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    And this is exactly how history should be taught. Very interesting. And it doesn't look expensive either. Could be done in a couple of days.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Sometimes they keep it very quiet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal No, seriously. All these statements about German character or German mentality should stop. If the last few months haven&#x2
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Keep. But make voting arrows bigger.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    "you can see that people in some parts of the U.S. live as many as 33 years longer on average than people in other parts of the country, the researchers say" That just can't be true.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Google the exact title and you will find it. There is no paywall when you enter from google. This usually only works for me when I google English language newspaper articles, though. When I google articles in other languages, Google somehow
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    by flexie 11y ago

    No, you are more or less right. The general rule is that personal data may only be transferred to organizations in third countries such as the US if they comply with the EU rules on data protection. See chapter IV of the data protection dir
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    PCloud Crypto Hacking Challenge – Prove You Can Break Our Client-Side Encryption(pcloud.com)

    1 points by flexie 11y ago|1 comments
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    by flexie 11y ago

    The distance between the units in a transportation system such as railroads, freeways or this Skytran is called "headway". Headway is mainly determined by breaking time. They say the capsules can break to 0 in just 16 meters so th
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Danish lawyer here. They don't face up to 6 years in jail. No-one in their right mind is thinking they will get even 1 year if found guilty, or whether they have pleaded guilty. Still outragous, though. But they will never get anything
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    by flexie 11y ago

    I have mixed feelings about that. You know, many young kids actually have a Mac already, and if not, a new Mac and a monthly subscription for Adobe costs a fraction of what 3 months in college costs. And if you've already spent a coupl
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    by flexie 11y ago

    So, now we are going to hear a lot about how China should let the renminbi float freely, let the market set the price etc. Anyone here knows whether any of the western currencies truly float freely? Don't all western central banks and&
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Having lived in the US and three different European countries, I now live in what is supposedly one of the poorest European countries, Bulgaria. Apart from the few third world countries I had visited, I had never seen real poverty until I w
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    by flexie 11y ago

    In very few ways Europe is a homogenous market, and certainly not in the search business or e-commerce. French search in French, Germans in German, Danes in Danish, Spaniards in Spanish, Italians in Italian, Dutch in Dutch etc. Then, if you
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    by flexie 11y ago

    What network effect? How does my friends using Uber force me to use Uber as well? I see it more like a toilet paper or shampoo thing: My friends might recommend Uber, but other friends would recommend Lyft, and others a local competitor. Th
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    by flexie 11y ago

    The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Ugly Duckling, Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Alladin, The Princess and the Frog, Frozen. And many, many more
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    by flexie 11y ago

    She :-)
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Lawyers charge a lot per hour but also have large overheads, especially trial lawyers. The amounts mentioned in the fundraising page seem small. I am guessing Chelsea Manning already gets a discount and that they will have to raise much mor
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    by flexie 11y ago

    It's a bit ironic that it takes what is almost a non-soccer country to fix soccer. But US corporations (Coca-Cola, McDonalds etc.) are major sponsors of FIFA so the US has a legitimate interest in prosecuting FIFA officials.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    I see it the other way around. This could help humans handle obstacles, at least if it could launch itself automatically and when it's a bit smaller so that it's really easy to carry around. African American males could carry it.
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    by flexie 11y ago

    Wow. You guys really dislike colour coding maps. Colour coding is really okay for most of us, even if its not easy to distinguish between all colours. What alternative do you prefer?
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    by flexie 12y ago

    Engineering is certainly not a proletariat. Engineers make more money than most professions and have more interesting jobs as well as lots of respect from other professions (I am not an engineer and I can tell you lots of people admire engi