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Many countries in Europe, even. Tuition in the UK is actually higher than it is in the US, though the terms of the repayment are quite a bit more forgiving.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

The vast majority of economics is not macroeconomic forecasting. That's somewhat akin to saying that computer science is about making email work.

Those are the same thing. You may as well say that there is no shortage of food in Venezuela, just a shortage of cheap food. The reason companies can't get STEM grads at the prices…

You heard it here first, everyone: economic indicators are actually just a plot by the manufacturing sector. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ Can you take a look and help me pick which…

If there were no talent shortage, companies wouldn't have to offer high wages to hire people. You're looking at two sides of the same coin.

>It's going to be a spectacular, automated race to the bottom. Excellent! More efficient shipping benefits a lot of people. The problem isn't the increase in efficiency — are faste…

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053535700... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296301... While tipping is not an enormous driver of service q…

Eh, the F-35 is more an example of how truly infinite time and money can eventually overcome even the worst development processes—at this point the LRIP 10 35As are coming in aroun…

Correct: it is fantastic at being vulnerable to air defenses, leaving it unable to engage the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1993. http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-1009…

Who let Ron Paul on the internet?

I am seriously struggling to understand the rationale for that.

From personal experience, CP Optimizer beats the crap out of other constraint solvers. Its API is... well, a bit rough, but it's incredibly fast and the support is top notch. I can…

>Who needs brave pilots in fighter seats when you can get the same results with slightly less brave drone operators? Primarily because we can't get the same results with slightly l…

Alternately, remove the need for highly skilled workers to get visas entirely, thereby completely preventing companies from abusing the system.

Because, for all their software and development delays, they significantly outperform 4.5th gen offerings and (the A, at least, which is the majority of what people are buying) don…

There is no reason to keep the A-10 around if its only role is a Maverick/Paveway truck chilling at altitude and plinking targets with Sniper/Litening. There are plenty of aircraft…

>The A10 is basically a flying tank meant to be hit and survive. Like Dale Storr's OA-10, which took a single Strela hit and went down? The A-10 is certainly more likely to be miss…

Well, it's fair to take issue with the idea that ZH provides any information whatsoever, but I get the feeling that that's not what the parent commenter is upset about.

Multiroles like the F-18, F-16 (excluding the original worthless LWF proposal), Su-30, Su-35, (today's, though not the original) MiG-29 and Su-27 variants, Typhoon, Tornado, Mirage…

Progressive consumption taxes based around this enjoy a great deal of support among economists and very little support among politicians, unfortunately.

Those articles (and the data behind them) suggest the opposite of your point: the middle class is shrinking, yes, but it's shrinking because incomes are increasing and people who w…