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by rustynails 11y ago
Also, with an increase in women in tertiary education, you have greater chance of like-minded couples meeting and having children.
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by rustynails 11y ago
I have a few random thoughts as a parent of an autistic child. I recognise they are anecdotal. The head doctor of an Autism centre told me there was a strong correlation between autism and genetics. I mentioned my wife (and her father) wer
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by rustynails 11y ago
I didn't listen to the audio blog, but I read the article. My family has dropped a few devices in water over the years. We managed to recover all tablets and phones. One of these devices is still running five years after being dropped
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by rustynails 11y ago
I may be stating the obvious, but good HMI design is not a good example of empathy. HMI design deals with consistency, clarity efficiency and aesthetics. I do not associate these with empathy, which I normally associate with emotions and w
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by rustynails 11y ago
This was a good read. I enjoyed the different take on the children of WWII. I also noted the parallels with the stolen generation of Aboriginals in Australia that was mentioned in the article. The stolen generation had good and bad points.
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by rustynails 11y ago
If a family is struggling financially, a sugar tax could easily push them over the edge. This strikes me as an increase in taxes for the poor as the impact relative to their income (as a %) would be significantly higher. So, the financial
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by rustynails 11y ago
That was my impression. It seemed to be a scientific critique (without the value add), but by the end it was clearly a promotion for Randall's book. I'm still scratching my head why it made front page.
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by rustynails 11y ago
I feel I've missed something in this article. "Science, after all, isn’t merely about advancing information — it’s about advancing understanding. Its task is to disentangle the opinions and the claims from the facts in the service
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by rustynails 11y ago
It is unfair to say that a meritocracy believes the poor "deserve" to be without. I'm not sure what's started this campaign against merit (eg. Qualifications, years of experience, etc) - was it political correctness? Soc
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by rustynails 11y ago
That's a sad inditement on his attitude. It sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would hope most women would not tolerate such an attitude, nor would most men seek it.
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by rustynails 11y ago
No self doubt (despite their being controversy and some that support alpha male classifications) can be interpreted a number of ways. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/going-ape/galleries/al... National Geogra
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by rustynails 11y ago
I am being nagged continually about IOS updates. It's even suggesting that it can do it overnight. It's not forced, but it's getting pushy.
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by rustynails 11y ago
>Anybody who wants more control won't be running Windows 10 or probably running an alternative OS. Please don't confuse more control with privacy. My last foray into Ubuntu and Mint (for more control) was a miserable failure on
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by rustynails 11y ago
Jdownloader automatically extracts archives, no fancy scripts needed. From my observation, most downloads are rar format (95% at a guess), but it doesn't really matter if it's rar or 7z as the differences in resource usage are neg
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by rustynails 11y ago
Cafes are a great place to socialise. I took up coffee drinking a few years ago to be a part of this ecosystem. It took me 2 years of 5 coffees a week (close to 1 a day) to get used to caffeine. I experienced increased heart rate, sweating
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by rustynails 11y ago
I find value in the popularity of a comment because it gives me some insight to how a community thinks, collectively. I've observed a number of times that the most popular web sites and the most popular news sites (as ranked by web tra
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by rustynails 11y ago
I do not use social networking like Twitter, Facebook, linked in, etc. however, of all of these systems, I prefer Twitter because it's the least invasive. If I want to hear what a particular person has to say, I opt in. I find that a
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by rustynails 11y ago
The author was challenging the technical competency of the author using Ars as a comparison. While Ars is involved in a journalistic race race to the bottom (someone used a drone/need a ghostbusters movie with 4 women in it/etc),
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by rustynails 11y ago
While I question the effectiveness of current practices, a number of people identified the ringleader but it was ignored. I suspect he was identified because there was a person on the ground, talking and interacting with real people. Anyon
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by rustynails 11y ago
I found this to be a very interesting article on ISIS with insights to their communications, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-in... When people left Bucca, they had written each
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by rustynails 11y ago
Identifying 1 candidate is a shaky argument. Even if the majority of popular candidates had an anti-Mexican (immigration) stance, you could not say for certain why they were popular without more analysis. It's quite feasible that othe
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by rustynails 11y ago
I learnt French, German and Italian in school. Those languages may have complexities (eg. In German, Gender for a table is male, a fly is female). However, if you heard a word, you could spell it and vice versa. English has many inconsist
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by rustynails 11y ago
This is fantastic news! This is the best news I've heard in a while. I have friends who don't like Muslims because "Muslim = terrorism". I've always struggled to argue the lack of denouncing terrorism by Muslim lead
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by rustynails 11y ago
I think something has happened at Apple. I would consider a playlist or dynamic filter (eg. Rock songs or Beatles songs) would be a beginner's desire. It's one step beyond "play". Yet, the new Apple Music app is highly
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by rustynails 11y ago
This is both a great article and a mediocre article. I agree with others that the marriage aspect is the weakest part. As a parent, I constantly think back to the 70s as a benchmark for open mindedness and freedom with my children. In my
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by rustynails 11y ago
The good thing is that most kids will reject a career path placed on them. My older but young child does not have my love of software development but loves mechanical and electrical design. He 'hates' programming. My other slight
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by rustynails 11y ago
Looking at dietary benefits is very complex. For example, there is one study that suggests there are no known benefits to yogurt. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/292809.php The point is that when I see number
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by rustynails 11y ago
New Zealand copyright laws extended from 50 to 70 years with grandfather clause. While it aligns with the Mickey Mouse clause used by other countries, it goes against the original intent to benefit society as people can't extend or mak
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by rustynails 11y ago
I know little about this topic. Can you please help me understand. Wikipedia says the act applies to banks and securities, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legis... I thought AIG provided securit
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The term y-fronts is also used in Australia (the article mentions UK only usage). I think of them as old fashioned, but that may be my own interpretation. I put together some slang definitions for a Quiz Night earlier this year. I noticed

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