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Your personality can change based on your experiences. Nothing about you is set in stone. Most of the time, change is effected through long effort and reflection, and by the end yo…

Well, in the district where my mom is a school psychologist, she is essentially responsible for about 4-5000 students spread across 4 schools. Part of her job is to screen kids for…

The problem I see with using EITC in this way is that it masks the cost of labor for any company paying minimum wage. A huge hole in arguments against raising the minimum wage is t…

Ask if you're under arrest. If not, you must be free you go.

But do they take into account obscure maintenance manuals for foreign cars?

Practically every bank I do business with has these limitations. By contrast, my gmail password is 24 characters long, and contains capital and lowercase letters and punctuation. I…

Wait a minute... > In a 2010 survey of 142 legal secretaries, not one preferred to work for a woman partner (about 47 percent had no preference). Interesting that they decided to t…

By that argument, why don't we just pave everything and let people drive wherever they want?

You could also read that as "just ignore this document. We didn't want it to stand up in court anyway."

I'm curious -- is FastCGI vulnerable as well? My understanding was that although regular CGI respawns the command interpreter every time the web server is queried, FastCGI reuses t…

Einstein guy his for his work with Brownian Motion. Nobel prizes aren't typically given for science that lacks a body of supporting evidence, which was the case at the time for Rel…

I hate marketers because they flood my mailbox with so much useless shit and paper that I miss mail from people I want to hear from. They've succeeded at making every form of commu…

This only works if your testimony is the only evidence of the crime.

All science can tell you is that if x people with your condition do y, n of them will likely die. Neither you not the statisticians can say with certainty whether you're in group n…

The only claim pertaining to bikes that still stands is that the changes have improved bike safety markedly.

Isn't departure the term for leaving the controller's airspace?

Baseball is one of the few sports you can watch with other people and talk over. The pace of the action can be a draw if you're going to pass time with other people rather than obs…

Here are some sources of potential clusterfucks I've seen firsthand: * Paying a contact manufacturer to design and build electronic hardware, then not getting any sources for the s…

Because the people who "get something for nothing" already do so today, and you already pay those costs. People check themselves into the ER with injuries and infections that have …

All the satellites in the world, and we still can't read the human heart.

Yeah, if I ever get a call from a collector I'm just going to ask them if they have my signature on a contract. If they don't they don't actually own anything and I'm free to ignor…

They're still working on the Z80-based load balancer so they can bring up another server.

I can accept the article's premise that income inequality is falling when you look at incomes globally. However the fact that there are still stratified, separated markets makes hi…

People in the US all believe that if they just work hard enough for somebody else, they can become millionaires. There's also this fun narrative about the mysterious "job creators,…

Passing out mirrors and nail files at a social event for women interested in programming is like passing out hammers and dimensional lumber at a social event for men interested in …