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2013-2014 PayScale report on graduates' salary by college(payscale.com)
1 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|0 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Overall teen employment is very, very slightly affected by a minimum wage, after adjusting for spatial and temporal inhomogeneity. At least that's the consensus from most recent articles I've seen on the topic. The consensus is
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Yes, public data threatens national security. Arguably, the U.S. Census Bureau should remove population density figures because terrorists will know where the most people live.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Right-clicking to get info was what came to my mind -- which also works!
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
> That Chome shares processes between lots of tabs, by the way, was a massive disappointment after the original video that made it sound like tabs would all be isolated I'm not an expert on sandboxing browser tabs, but so far I have
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Presumably the fingerprinting issue is more of privacy than essential freedoms. Even if we believe Apple when it says that fingerprint data (and authentication?) will remain solely on the device, it's potentially only one vulnerability
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
There was discussed [0] on reddit's front page yesterday. Key comment from arimaspi quoting from the Foundation's website [1]: "The last couple of days several (spontaneous) articles have been published, claiming The Ocean Cl
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NIMH dropping DSM as gold standard for psychiatric research (April 2013)(nimh.nih.gov)
3 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|0 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I had to enable "Brightcove" in Ghostery in order to see the video. Hope this helps anyone potentially confused.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
PHP's market share has only been going up (at least over the past three years) and currently sits at about 80% of all server-side programming languages, by at least one count. [0] [0] http://w3techs.com/technologies&#x2
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Sounds like a secret police within a secret (kind of) police.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I think Kickstarter or other crowdfunding platforms, where people vote with their wallets, would be a better way to validate an idea.
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Apple patent to remotely disable iPhone's camera, ringer, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth(blogs.computerworld.com)
1 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|1 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Reminds of me Centralia, Pennsylvania [1] -- which is purported to be an inspiration for Silent Hill. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
> In a large organisation like Microsoft's the skill of the engineers and the ratings should follow a normal distribution. My understanding is that stack ranking is effective when first implemented. Subsequent implementations are pr
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The 17 Designs That Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons(theatlantic.com)
9 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|1 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I updated my profile description with my email address: w.victoryee@gmail.com Heh, I ended up with this particular username because I forgot to set my email address with a couple previous accounts, then proceeded to forget my password to th
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I'm almost certain that your friend has already looked at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ given his background and time looking. But I'm not sure where else he would be able to find a listing of reputable, vetted clini
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I remember having the same reaction, especially after hearing many conservatives "considering" emigration to Canada, a nation much more socialist and tolerant than the U.S.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Hey, you know, I hear that <10% NIH success rate number all the time, and am definitely hearing a lot about the effect of the recent sequester, etc. and I completely believe it. But I'm actually somewhat surprised at the published p
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
You're right that many doctorates in the U.S. are foreign born. And that makes this article even more alarming. The problem is that since WWII, the vast majority of these foreign born scientists in the US tended to stay and become natu
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Sorry, I had to chuckle when I saw you include law as one of the fields where lying "won't work." For many parties, lying in court does "work" for them if they can get away with it. Recent case in point: the DEA usi
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
No. I know that most major points have already been covered. But here're my 2 cents in a nutshell: 1. An online actions can never be as secret/anonymous as a physical actions. This much we've definitely learned from all the r
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton (1676)
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Is there access to the full dissertation (i.e., not just the description/abstract)? For those interested, the key statement in this study: Using an experiment, message board influence on an investment decision and attitude was tested.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
On an unrelated note, I guess someone at Popular Mechanics misspelled the "neuroscience" category label. The correct "neuroscience" spelling redirects to "nueroscience"...
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I couldn't find the article without passing through a paywall. But this article [1] summarizes the methodology decently: "We used a site very similar to Reddit," Aral says. Here's how it worked: The researchers convince
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
It doesn't seem like I can reply to smtddr's sibling comment here (probably nested too deep?). So here's my two cents: I agree that in context of memory, the brain's capacity does appear limitless. However, the brain&#x2
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
>> He's done more in five years than you've done in 20. You can't train that. People just are. > I do believe that all healthy human beings do have the same potential for the amount of knowledge they can consume,
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I've been using the label:^smartlabel_group, label:^smartlabel_notification, and label:^smartlabel_promo filters for probably over a couple years now. I have all notifications and promos "skip inbox" and I just go check those

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