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I'm not conservative, 26, or female. It also says I'm smarter than just 49% of the population, while IQ tests say at least 80%. Maybe I'm just good at taking tests and Facebook is …

Except that's not really true. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-05-30/new-research... http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/01/do-microloans-really-...

> Also interesting is the Marathon Supercharger in the Florida Keys: it clearly makes a big difference in the route whether you can fly over water or not :) See: https://en.wikiped…

Considering that a penny in 1909 had the buying power of about $0.25 today, I wish they would have attached a quarter. (death to pennies!)

Paragraph 1 states 46.2 million people lived below the official poverty level, and 10.4 million of those were working, so you conclude that the remaining "choose not to work". But …

It is absurd to say that because someone augments their benefits with $300 a month in child care, their problems are over. Can you point to where in that PDF you got that 80% numbe…

What about this labor drop? http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART?rid=50&s...

I think you should reconsider the assertion that poor in the US usually don't work. Minimum wage jobs leave you just above the poverty level if you're single, below if you are supp…

If we can have an increasing GDP while most of America experiences stagnation (as with the recent recovery) who's to say we can't have decreasing GDP coupled with improving quality…

Can't tell if sarcasm, considering that Thatcher's move was to privatise, until she ran out of public assets. This pithy quote is also wrong because it assumes the economy is a zer…

California has cheap community colleges. It's $99 per credit (a class is 3 or more credits) where I grew up, plus books. http://www.ccac.edu/default.aspx?id=137210 $400 for a life …

Do we call money made from investments or inheritance Welfare? In a post agrarian society, work and income are not related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Railroad In 1905, they built 128 miles of railroad connecting the Florida keys. Since then, engineering has advanced significantly. Overland i…

give it an http, not https url and you won't get error messages. but the translation is borked.

Assignment within the brackets, that kinda surprised me > a = [] > a[a[typeof a]='huh', void a] = 'puh' > console.log(a) [object: "huh", undefined: "puh"] huh... you can do this to…

If Shia handed Jay Top Secret documents and refused to give his source up, you think he'd be free? I suspect anyone with the power to go after him, who noticed his comment, knew ab…

If you're going to start with a comment about FUD, could you enlighten us with the rest of the comment instead of rhetorical questions? Cattle raised on corn (aka, most cattle rais…

Your use of TM™ indicates to me that you are arrogant and cynical. You personally can't make the world better (see: dictator) and that really hurts an ego. You would rather see you…

Ya know, I'm all for "innocent until proven guilty" but blury pictures of them dropping a bag, a witness description, a car chase where they threw bombs out the window, a shootout …

Well, go right ahead and use cp and mv for your source control! No one (except maybe linus) ever said git is easy. But it is flexible and powerful. Anyway, this whole thing comes d…

Git doesn't have much of a user interface because it's target is developers who want to use the command line. Git is confusing until it's not, and then it's awesome. It's kinda lik…

You don't get unemployment if you voluntarily leave your job. edit: or a contractor.