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> Most families could afford one more child if they wanted to. The counter argument was made in Elizabeth Warrens book The Two Income Trap where her research showed that the single income family of the 1970’s had more disposable income t
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BPD comes in two flavors. The first, acting out, is the stereotypical BPD that is the better known variety. The second, acting in or quiet BPD, is less well known. For someone in a relationship where it seems to rhyme but not fit understand
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>The best thing I can think of is subsidizing child care... Since most childcare providers are women and programs with high adult to child ratios are preferred doesn’t this lead to the strange situation where a large parts of the workfor
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Most employees look to own parts of larger projects where the returns are modest and a low potential failure rate. Most manager look to own projects that may return a modest multiple of their budget with a 80% chance of success. There are f
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Do some research into living with someone with borderline personality disorder. Only someone qualified can make the diagnosis but for those that may be involved with someone with bpd learning about bpd can help them better navigate the rela
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> With the condition that you abide by the rules. The rules are generally in place to protect the community from sociopaths and serve as the communities immune system.
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Assuming that leaders are promoted to mangement first and then they lead rather than they lead first and then they are promoted to management.
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Prostaglandin E2 inhibits the release of endorphins so suppressing prostaglandins may have an impact on anxiety.
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"Do you mean from the young to the old?" I'm thinking of wealth as the claim on productive assets such as stocks, bonds and property. Pensions are a structured transfer of wealth from the old to the young and of labor from th
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Effectively your arguing that productivity growth will effectively bail us out of our high levels of debt and pension obligations (which are another form of debt) and there are more than a few that have argued the same. The challenge is tha
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Pensions are a structured transfer of wealth from the old to the young. It's possible to have high unemployment when: - Inadequate savings for the median retiree - High levels of wealth inequality - High levels of foreign debt In that
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Many pension obligations are inflation indexed and high levels of inflation distort the economy. At some point producers start hoarding raw material (or leave it in the ground) because it's more profitable to do so in the long run. Thi
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HMAC is a keyed hash which renders simple brute force attacks ineffective unless the attacker is also able to compromise the key. Even without the key the system is still vulnerable to frequency analysis. For example if it were used to stor
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.NET niche always seemed to be in simple SMB intranet apps. Almost any IT guy in a shop that runs windows could setup an IIS server and have a CRUD app running in a couple of days. Getting anything else typically required a separate hire. I
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The example of cell phone case pictures superimposed over random pictures of food was from an Etsy presentation at a conference I recently attended. Routinely (i.e. daily) I see activity that may involve 500+ unique IPs and 2000-4000 attemp
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Whatever you set your limit as it's pretty trivial to bypass if they are willing to create a thousand accounts. Close those thousand accounts and they will create a thousand more at the same rate you close them. Add velocity controls f
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Etsy gets multiple thousands of vendor sign-ups per day and needs a dedicated team to filter out vendors that attempt to game the marketplace by flooding it with thousands of listings for cell phone cases and other junk. A lot of it is driv
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One funny thought down these lines is that after 50+ years the gold in the vaults has been cold welded together. Gold is soft, malleable and heavy and after years maybe it's effectively a solid chunk of metal. Would explain the logisti
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The US would be more than happy to pay back the Germans through exports of machine tools and cars and other goodies. I believe that German structural trade surpluses are an issue both inside and outside the Eurozone. Also after WWII the US
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The New Yorker summarized the study here: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-caffeine-can-cram...
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Caffeine seems to help power through dull, repetitive tasks but also stifles creativity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20888549/ Sad that we live in a world where it seemingly needs to be so ubiquitou
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Hatching a chick shell free using plastic wrap was developed in 2014. It was recently replicated by Japanese students which made the news.
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Anybody know what the fund is invested in and what are the risks? Seems like an awful lot of money sloshing around in China.
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It's still used pretty extensively but it's becoming less effective to identify fraud as the techniques have become more widely known. These days the most effective use is guarding against account takeover. When logging in from an
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Programming is similar to chess in that it has a high branching factor. Each potential path towards a desired end state leads to other potential paths and excludes others. Good programmers are adept at being able to visualize complex trees
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"And there once was a generation so selfish they even harvested the blood of their own children to prolong their own lives." "Grandma, you're telling stories again. That couldn't possibly be true!" "I swe
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In the book I think she makes a pretty strong case that the wide disparity between public schools in the US is a major driver of real estate costs. A single income family that is outbid for access to good schools through real estate prices
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That is addressed in her book... Senator Warren is obviously an advocate for women having the opportunity to work and have a career while the book analyzes the system wide implications of those individual choices. She makes a convincing ca
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Senator Warren's boom the Two Income Trap says that in the US the second income went mostly into higher land prices, childcare and transportation. The net benefit accrued mostly to the old (more workers per retiree), the government (mo
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My experience is that people don't do well when asked to monitor systems that rarely change for rare events. It doesn't matter how strongly you impress upon them the importance of the work or how much potential reward you dangle i

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