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Ha, wow, the first time I've ever been genuinely taken aback by 'victim blaming' and of all possible places it comes from a story about a farmer and his tractor. For starters, even…

Flagging as a means of shutting down opinions people disagree with or to target groups they don't like is unfortunately very common. Sometimes even in organized fashion, where a gr…

It didn't have to go anywhere, and in many cases it didn't. Imagine you have a house (500k) and a car(20k) in 2007. Today you still have the same house (now valued at 400k) the sam…

There is just no truth to what you're saying at all, and it's hard for me to even know how to respond. I've written out several responses that I've deleted because your worldview s…

Did you read the article? "As part of that, there was a new reservation system on certain nights of the week for a $27 permit...left the park open for drop-in play 96 percent of th…

"We do the same for Facebook: Slotboom is able to intercept the login name and password I entered with relative ease." Is Facebook not using encryption for login? That would surpri…

The SAT is in no way more "rigorous" than the ACT. The theoretical difference between ACT and SAT is a slight shift between "achievement" (ACT) vs "potential" (SAT) although the re…

Something about that fact has always bothered me. I can hire a team of lawyers and finance people to set up a complex system of subsidiaries so that my company only realizes profit…

I'm so tired of people who don't know what "free market" means making up their own definition and then saying it's a bad thing. A "free market" is an economics term meaning a marke…

Slight correction - it has access to your friends who have also used the facebook login for that site. If you're the first person to login, the site will get an empty list. Only th…

I recently talked at length with someone who had just finished one of these programs, and learned that they do an incredible amount of "teaching to the test". That is to say, they …

Funny, "labor law disaster tourism" could also explain how an American feels visiting Spain, France or Italy right now. No system is perfect, but let's not pretend labor laws in th…

Ghostery blocks access to the content due to how they're doing a redirect. I wonder if that's intentional, was one of the seven habits users who block trackers?

So were ICQ, AIM, MSN, Google Chat, texting, maybe FB messenger, WhatsApp. I myself have migrated my primary messaging platform through half that list. Isn't there a tremendous ris…

Adding to JasonCEC's comment, a semi-famous example of this phenomenon appeared in the blind taste-test challenge Pepsi marketed vs Coke. Pepsi, being slightly sweeter, was preferr…

I recently talked at length with someone who had just finished one of these programs, and learned that they do an incredible amount of "teaching to the test". That is to say, they …

This is fascinatingly baffling. I'd love to meet the author in person. I don't know how much existing technology was used, but the feature set sounds quite expansive for 6 weeks of…

There are multiple very large public companies in the US which boast that their CEO earns a salary of only $1. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary Is there some dif…

Which still sounds wrong to me. I'd expect "You're not allowed to breathe oxygen" or "You're not allowed to have oxygen". So I guess it's "allowed" which is being used in a way I'm…

I'm confused by the awkward grammar in the title. Is it intentional for humor (like xkcd's 'going to try science') or is that wording acceptable use in British dialects? I'm parsin…

It absolutely can be both. The government-run solution could be poorly managed, unreliable and overly expensive while still scaring away the massive investment needed for someone e…

> "saying that service staff deserve to be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage" Terrible editorializing. Nothing in the original billboard suggests anyone "deserves" any p…

Oh come on. Referring to unproductive jobs as dead wood is a perfectly fine idiom. Nobody is implying the people who hold those jobs have any personal failings or aren't capable of…

Standard advice is that accepting a counter-offer is usually a poor career choice because the employer sees you as a risk to leave and starts planning for your replacement rather t…

Do you have any sort of citation or reference to back up your claim that a newspaper would be liable for a murder due to printing an address in the US? Wouldn't everyone be liable …