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I appreciate your response, but I disagree with your normative advice.

How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.

I'm not sure if this is a fantastic development. Placing a copy of the journal article on the agency website is cheap, but the burden of opening the data is going to be costly. Thi…

For many workers and managers this is true. For the manager with a crack staff in which many work offsite but are great communicators and productive employees this is a nightmare.

If she acted as Mike suggests she likely has a history of being an idiot and CBP will be happy to reprimand/release her.

Not even close the USCG was under the Dept of Transportation not the Marines before being merged into DHS in 2002. Also, in time of war the Navy can annex the USCG.

If this story went down exactly as Mike suggests the agent will lose her job or at least her federal law enforcement qualification. On the other hand, Mike is pleading his case in …

Do like writing grant proposals? Because in the biological sciences that is what you will be doing, and you will be competing against other smart folks which results in a 6% chance…

The term you are looking for is a post-scarcity economy.

You cannot simply blame the government policymakers. Civil servants make the policies based on Congressional direction. Congress develops laws due to public pressure which is often…

A lot of misinformation in these comments centers around the fact that many universities constructed new buildings from 2008-2012 as construction costs were low due to the high lev…

Yes, its government failure which is a more inefficient allocation of resources than would occur without the government intervention.

Many employers, especially those with a dedicated HR department, call the stated university verify degrees. This is especially true if a security clearance/background check is an e…

Gravity and cohesion-tension theory.

Pass on the frat and join the rugby club. The beer is free and fitness is a by product of participation.

The Patriots have used this analysis: http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/Teaching/Sci199_03/Footbal... I also believe Belichek/Adams have funded some football economics research.

The problem is very few gyms have bumper plates and platforms. Further, many gyms frown upon the use of chalk.

What is the app?

"I have little doubt that motivated self-study with the appropriate books would have produced an equally valuable education in the subject" Much easier said than done. The course p…

In the US try the local microbrewery(s) for relief from a loud bar/pub. Unofrtunately, in the bay Area these may be upper class targeted, but in other areas you get a great mix of …

I'm a mountaineer and never knew of these sites. Absolutely thrilled to see them on HN. Also, I'd pay for a user friendly data centric weather app focused on ski, climb, and outdoo…

The work is farmed out to the National Labs and federally funded RDCs from a coordinating office: "Olympic Games borrowed some for what they termed "destructive testing," essential…

He is also a Professor at Georgetown and teaching graduate level theory of computation and distributed computing: http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html So the opportunity i…

If you have data, yes. If not, you are just being the antagonist.

As an economist I wish more people would follow the math/econ option and add CS coursework. Unfortunately, most economist are scared to venture beyond Excel, Stata, and SAS, and I …