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by trendia 9y ago
You'd have to agree though that it's a remarkable coincidence that the moderator began to ramble when he started talking about a topic that he was particularly excited about and which he was not particularly knowledgeable about.
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by trendia 9y ago
The Google search result looks like you'll see the content when you open the link, but instead you have to login first. OP doesn't want to login.
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by trendia 9y ago
This assumes that all races and genders get advanced degrees in the same fields, which isn't true.
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by trendia 9y ago
Dube, Lester, Reich focused on the short run. The paper I linked (Sorkin) agreed with their findings in the short run > This short-run employment response is in line with both our estimates in this paper, as well as recent work studying
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by trendia 9y ago
This report suffers from a serious flaw: it uses federal minimum wage increases rather than state or local increases. By doing so, they have no control to compare to and thus cannot show causation. For instance, suppose that federal min wag
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by trendia 9y ago
Of course, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the article, but it's always funny when someone posts an article they didn't read. It directly contradicts what you're claiming: > The red states aren't in fact poo
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by trendia 9y ago
Temporarily. > a federal judge gave Järlström the temporary right to call himself an engineer, pending the results of his case.
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by trendia 9y ago
If you believe they are being rational, then we must change that calculus. That's why we send them to prison--doing so discourages other people from doing the same.
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by trendia 9y ago
Congrats to her for making it in the US! However, it would have been exceptionally easy to get the required visas. Once she was accepted into university, she can apply for an F student visa. It's practically guaranteed for this visa to
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by trendia 9y ago
Perhaps your comment here is premature? In order to know whether there is a wage gap at Google, you need data. Without that data, you are no more accurate than the people you are fighting.
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by trendia 9y ago
This is the truth. Total Cost = Cost to acquire data ($200,000) + Back pay to employees ($20,000,000)
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by trendia 9y ago
$299 / $399 price point for a single board computer (SBC)? That price makes it hard to compete with the Odroid or Raspberry Pi.
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by trendia 9y ago
We had a local politician who was caught using money to fly first class instead of economy. They defended themselves by saying "You can't step off economy to meet with the leaders of the world." But it doesn't matter. If
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by trendia 9y ago
They set the bar super high (change the world) and then act surprised when valedictorians achieve it. Big surprise: the non-valedictorians didn't change the world, either.
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by trendia 9y ago
Any Linux support? I'll buy Microsoft hardware if I can keep my full development environment (Qt creator included)
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by trendia 9y ago
One more benefit: polished concrete is way easier to deep clean.
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by trendia 9y ago
Consider if every person thought he/she was in the 60%ile for some skill. Then, the best people would underestimate their skill and the worst would overestimate. This would produce the statistical results of the Dunning Kruger test, bu
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by trendia 9y ago
At my university (large state research school), professor salary was dependent on grants. Professors get big grants? They get nice salaries.
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by trendia 9y ago
Ah yes. Like setting a price ceiling? Adding more administrators, managers, and bureaucrats to "find where all that money is going"? By paying teachers less? It's not an easy task to reduce the cost of something... this is ev
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by trendia 9y ago
Before we start paying for it, we should ask why the costs have increased so dramatically in the last 10 years, and why the benefits of a degree have gone down. Then, neither debt nor debt collection would be an issue. After all, the reason
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by trendia 9y ago
> They live until no one is interested in them anymore and they are abandoned. Sometimes they don't even wait until no one is interested!
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by trendia 9y ago
My solution is to change the DNS settings in my router to set all domains for Facebook to 0.0.0.0. So, *.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 I'm sure the same could be done with Twitter. This ensures that they cannot track you on e.g. a news
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by trendia 9y ago
I'm not sure what that commenter was suggesting, but one possible solution is to give the public the ability to vote. Right now, the FCC has to receive comments from the public but does not have to listen to it. If the FCC were bound b
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by trendia 9y ago
From the article: Flynn and colleagues then established that it was a particular subset of white males who were particularly cavalier about risks: those who, in response to the social justice movement’s currently fashionable suggestion to “
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by trendia 9y ago
I do not mention anything about morality, I'm pointing serious flaws in the author's analysis. The article blames culture for the difference, when it is likely caused by economic incentives. My comment pointed this out. (your comm
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by trendia 9y ago
1. If white males are at fault, why do Chinese men exhibit more risk taking behavior than Chinese women? This is the example used in the story, yet the author ignores this obvious contradiction. A country that had minimal western interventi
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by trendia 9y ago
You're likely getting downvoted by people who havem't read the article. The article highlights the following quote not once, but twice: "What on first inspection seemed like a sex difference was actually a difference between
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by trendia 9y ago
Congress regularly makes rules that apply to every other government employee except themselves. * Have to use a government email for official business? Everyone else does but Congress * Have to keep a record of all communications? Everyone
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by trendia 9y ago
Well, darn. Looks like Dinesh is going to need to pull a few all-nighters.
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by trendia 9y ago
That's not entirely accurate in general. If the tolerance is the result of improved metablosim (as in alcoholism), then it could lead to decreased lethality.

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