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by jacalata 11y ago
So your proposition is that interest is 100% irrelevant to eventual career path? That's the only scenario where this data is irrelevant. I didn't notice the article saying "interest should correlate 100% with career and any d
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by jacalata 11y ago
It's not meaningless at all. It directly refutes the constant argument that "women don't do engineering because they aren't interested in it".
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by jacalata 11y ago
I suppose I'd call it smart consumerism if you know which bits are optional and are not arguing that it's impossible to live without things that 99% of people will never have. Do regular ski trips sound awesome? Yes. Would I ever
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by jacalata 11y ago
Tldr: no, but if we redefine "live in London" as "live in Zone 1, take family of four skiing in France four times a year, send kids to private school from age 3, always eat at Michelin starred restaurants, own multiples of ev
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by jacalata 11y ago
This is probably the ideal outcome of volunteer tourism.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Not all administrative costs are bad. Givewell itself is 100% overhead, for instance.
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by jacalata 11y ago
>the mistakes of communism, where (e.g.) very good research into genetics and psychology was abandoned because people thought it wouldn't be useful, and resources were wasted producing old manufactured goods (inefficient machines an
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by jacalata 11y ago
How can you read without knowing all the letters?
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by jacalata 11y ago
I think that sentence meant "the difficulty of reading at a young age makes them less interested in reading when they are older"
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by jacalata 11y ago
Looks like I was wrong- people who can't leave the chair in their own will be lifted out on planes. I should have realized that they don't sleep in their chairs so they must be able to leave them :/ This is a pretty slow oper
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by jacalata 11y ago
Not all wheelchair users can leave the wheelchair for a normal seat though. They can't use cars, but the ADA won't allow the hyperloop to exclude them.
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by jacalata 11y ago
What's involved in checking on trains?
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by jacalata 11y ago
They have to become emancipated before they turn 18, and you can only do that voluntarily in some states.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Sure, same as it works if a gay guy and lesbian woman get married for legal reasons now.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Remarry, duh.
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by jacalata 11y ago
By whose definition?
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by jacalata 11y ago
>Because European executives get significantly more vacation time than their U.S. counterparts, we theorized that studying the two groups would essentially give us a control group and a test group. (Of course, this is not perfect as ther
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by jacalata 11y ago
Technically, sure (assuming you also build the robot hardware) but we're quite far from having software that can negotiate treaties, figure out how to regulate water rights in California, etc...
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by jacalata 11y ago
How does (1) apply? Are there indie artists who are opting out?
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by jacalata 11y ago
There's the E2 visa ( http://www.quora.com/How-can-the-E2-visa-help-US-aliens-to-w... ), or if you have an established company outside the US you could use the L1 visa (intra-company transfer/opening a new office).
951.
by jacalata 11y ago
oops, you're right on the release.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Note that this has been a public feature since windows phone 8 was released, two and a half years ago.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Pole vaulting used to kill about 1 person per year in the US, but after rule changes in 2003 it went down to about 1 every five years - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582223
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by jacalata 11y ago
The Canada thing is probably a rebuttal to the "highest paid doctors in the world" line in the original comment.
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by jacalata 11y ago
It's income rank, rather than actual income. In my explanatory text they mention that the difference between two points on the far left is a few hundred dollars and the difference between two points on the right is a million or so (I f
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by jacalata 11y ago
No, I don't know of any public reports. You could try asking the author of the post for details, but that would be weird - it has a strong overtone of "I don't believe you".
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by jacalata 11y ago
So?
958.
by jacalata 11y ago
Failure of imagination, unfortunately. You could look up recent scandals and discussion around Australian surgeons for some examples of pretty terrible behaviour in medicine.
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by jacalata 11y ago
>, I certainly hope that this does not become some sort of thing that people spend a lot of time worrying about, Some people already had to spend time worrying about behaviour in the community, as made clear by the references to existing
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's a terrible headline unsupported by the article. I think they meant "even teaching encryption to foreigners could soon be illegal for Australians", but they may have just left out some paragraphs - anyone know if the he

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