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by zhdc1 8y ago
Does this really happen, though? If you look at incidence rates for violence, prostitution, alcoholism, and other anti-social behaviors, misbehavior tends to decrease over time (in line with urbanization/modernization). Small communit
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I've felt that Disneyland/world and other theme parks (e.g., Europa-park) were overpriced to begin with, but if they believe that other people are willing to put up with airline style pricing and other forms of price setting - wel
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by zhdc1 8y ago
Agreed, and also that population size and economic power aren't always the end all-be alls for success. The US has a great women's team in part because lots of women play soccer, and in part because their aren't that many oth
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by zhdc1 8y ago
The US actually has a fairly good men's national team. As weak as CONCACAF is, there's a reason why they've qualified for seven of the last eight World Cups - and why their tie with Trinidad and Tobago was so surprising.
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by zhdc1 8y ago
This is like asking why Brazil (pop 208M) and Nigeria (pop 191m) don't field competitive cricket teams. Interestingly enough, China does have a fairly decent women's soccer team (~17th in the world), so they must be doing somethin
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I agree that R shouldn't be used in production, but R is great for prototyping different analytical models before porting them over to Python or another language.
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by zhdc1 8y ago
Yes. The undergraduate 'great books' program used at St. John's came from the University of Chicago (Mortimer Adler and others) through Stringfellow Barr. The University of Chicago based their program on Charles Eliot'
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by zhdc1 8y ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. Technical discovery is baked into traditional project management (e.g., civil engineering) in a way that continues to surprised me as a former IT project manager. There is a culture of investigation and research, such as mat
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by zhdc1 8y ago
Whenever this subject comes up, I feel the need to point out St. John's College's undergraduate liberal arts program: https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs
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by zhdc1 8y ago
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I've seen plenty of EU news sites try to get away with an updated 'cookie' privacy policy popup, so we'll see what happens.
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there's already an agreement in place between that restaurant and your company. I agree that social trust is very high in Switzerland, but I don't know if it's that high (at least, I've ne
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by zhdc1 8y ago
In my experience, it has little to do with public trust and a lot to do with payment processor fees and an older population (which includes middle aged and older shop owners) having an aversion to paying in anything other than cash. A cashl
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I don't know why people think this. The European Commission Directorate General for Competition lists around 35 thousand cases in their Antitrust and General Registry alone. EU directives are transposed to member states, who are the o
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by zhdc1 8y ago
'European' - e.g., EU - culture is still quite new in this regard, and plenty of companies have gotten very large fines for gross non compliance of other regulations/directives. Since GDPR compliance is enforced by EU members
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by zhdc1 8y ago
There is a positive correlation between cranial capacity and height, some correlation between brain volume and height, and some correlation between brain volume and intelligence within gender. Women score as well as men on general intellige
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by zhdc1 8y ago
The height of the average male (178cm) is more than one standard deviation (8.9cm) above the height of the average female (165.1cm). I don't really know if we should be surprised that the differences between male and female brain volum
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by zhdc1 8y ago
> ... and that seems to be a problem because the theory asks us to believe something implausible; that during times of war coin production went down. This doesn't really surprise me. Lead production during the first downturn was co
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by zhdc1 8y ago
The idea itself sounds ok, but the article reads like a paid placement.
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by zhdc1 8y ago
There may have been a lot more cross-culture communication than you think. Examples include Venetian and Florentine trading posts in Beijing/Dadu and other cities in the Mongol Empire, Caucasians living in Xinjiang, and so on. The issu
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by zhdc1 8y ago
What are you using? I've always felt that Sublime Text has had a pretty decent update schedule. I like it myself, but if there are any better editors out there (besides the usual Vim, Emacs, Nano, &c...), I'd definitely appr
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by zhdc1 8y ago
I'm familiar with some of the research on government policy acceptance/salience viz-a-viz climate change and alternative energy (I have a PhD interview tomorrow on this very subject), and I agree with some of what you're sayi
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by zhdc1 9y ago
I was on a PC at school when the first news report came in over the internet that a plane stuck one of the towers. The news article I read made it sound like it was hit by a small plane, and not a passenger airline. Then, nothing. Our int
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by zhdc1 9y ago
I don't get the impression that paving companies are around long enough (or have anywhere enough influence) to intentionally rig the system in this way. Infrastructure is absolutely neglected in the US and Canada - municipal and state
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by zhdc1 9y ago
This, by far. I can't tell you how many times I've had to listen to my significant other (a roadway engineer) talk about new types of asphalt designed to reduce noise pollution, last longer, or fulfil some sort of edge-case requi
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by zhdc1 9y ago
Rust is a big reason for why cars fail.
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by zhdc1 9y ago
I get a feeling that this is influenced by which part of the country you live in. The average age of a passenger car in Germany is ~6.7 years. I wasn't able to find a recent reliable figure for the average number of KMs driven per car
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by zhdc1 9y ago
Agreed, but let's also be honest, the industry is weak when it comes to quality control, which isn't helped by the general attitude of replacing cars once they go over 100-150k km (~93k miles). This definitely isn't my field,
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by zhdc1 9y ago
I don't get why people still think this. Look at the other comments in this thread. Germany isn't the best place to bootstrap a startup, but it has amazing universities and very established - and sophisticated - multinationals th
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by zhdc1 9y ago
This is also true for a growing number of Americans. When I lived in DC (I now live in Europe), the worst thing about getting an otherwise beneficial job lateral was the need to get a car. And this comes from someone who enjoys driving.

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