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by catz 17y ago
> I'd also point out that Japan and South Korea also have an extremely competitive and intensive educational Just a few interesting stuff (partially relevant to the discussion). The Russian Federation has a higher average performance in
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by catz 17y ago
Whether or not you feel what I said was interesting or relevant is completely up to you. I will just mention that for the parent post, at least 20 people found it interesting or to the point (since it has a moderation of 21). In any case, i
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by catz 17y ago
> How are H1B visas an alternative? I don't see any reason to believe that if H1Bs were less restrictive then we'd see H1B holders leaving their jobs to create start-ups. A lot of people start startups while they are working. This simpl
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by catz 17y ago
> but I think your last sentence assumes that being Mexican and being an engineer is exclusive, which it obviously isn't. No it doesn't. I am sure that there are Mexicans from the whole spectrum of the population (doctors, engineers, ma
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by catz 17y ago
> Downvote for the "Mexicans" reference. Perhaps saying, "There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Would 1 million engineers and scientists be a bad thing?" Saying there are over 5 million Mexicans in the USA i
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by catz 17y ago
Interesting idea. I seem to not be able to access the site ( SeekingArrangement.com). Not that I have enough money in any case...
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by catz 17y ago
There is a simple alternative – remove the stupid restrictions on H1B visas. The restriction that if you loose/quit your job that you have to be out of the country in 60 days is bad for three reasons. The first reason is that the employer k
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by catz 17y ago
I agree with you that it tastes nice. However, either your bananas taste different or your pawpaws taste different - it doesn't taste like a banana at all!
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by catz 17y ago
I can not believe that there are so many workers from Haiti and Al Salvador. I would have thought that they would cut down on semi-skilled labour.
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by catz 17y ago
Or (if I remember the book correctly) nuclear power.
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by catz 17y ago
> . or for that matter how would we go about to teach the animals how to reproduce? Are they to live among animals or similar character while they are young? Most lower animals are ruled by instinct. A bird never 'learns' from his paren
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by catz 17y ago
> To make matters worse, almost half of Russia’s treated tubercular cases over the past decade have been the variant known as extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). This can not be right. XDR (Extreme Drug Resistant TB) is fairly
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by catz 17y ago
I did not read the whole article - just scanned through it (it is long). Firstly, it Focusses on a reactor in Finland and most of those costs are very recent. Your stats of the above is probably based on this part: > In October 2007, Mo
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by catz 17y ago
This is so true. France produces 70%+ of its electricity from Nuclear Power stations. There has not been a major disaster with that. And, looking at France's economy, it does not seem infeasible.
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by catz 17y ago
> The excellent Wikipedia section you linked to makes it crystal clear that the CRA, which passed in 1977, had no causal role in the subprime meltdown Where? Here are a few quotes: > Economist Stan Liebowitz wrote in the New York Po
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by catz 17y ago
> more by clever quips than by I dislike superficial things such as that. The whole smooth talking and celebrity thing is not for me. But in all fairness, the president that is the most like that is Barrack Obama. One thing that was goo
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by catz 17y ago
> and hurt the United States in a lot of ways During the 8 years that Reagan was president the US economy grew by over 30%. This is an amazing feat. > while Jimmy Carter went on to do a lot of good Really? Do you think Carter was a
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by catz 17y ago
> > push to eliminate US nuclear weapons > I have seen no evidence of anyone in the administration suggesting any such thing. Really? What about: "Obama Calls for Nuclear Free World, Says U.S. Will Lead" ( http://english.chosun.
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by catz 17y ago
> people that stand to benefit most from the voucher program do not pay enough property taxes to cover the cost of private schools How do you know how much tax they pay? I can bet you that most people pay more taxes than the value of th
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by catz 17y ago
> or affiliated with specialized approaches to educational philosophy (e.g., Montessori or Waldorf). That is true. Private schools can sidestep disastrous education philosophies that the government introduces through the public school s
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by catz 17y ago
> And, public dollars should never go to religious organizations or anti-religious organizations. You are acting as if these children's parents did not pay tax. They only get their own tax money back to spend it on their children's educ
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by catz 17y ago
As I understand it he made some serious missteps in the recession. WP: > Berkshire Hathaway acquired 10% perpetual preferred stock of Goldman Sachs at $123[40] only for it to fall to below $60. Furthermore some of Buffett's Index put op
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by catz 17y ago
> I didn't say that only indoctrination about the supernatural is distasteful. Indoctrination--religious or otherwise--is unethical. Here is a question for the voucher program. Are parent's forced to send their children to schools tha
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by catz 17y ago
Didn't Berkshire Hathaway loose a lot of money because of the current mess?
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by catz 17y ago
Some sources is given in the post above. The USA has a marginally larger infancy mortality rate than some European countries.
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by catz 17y ago
> People in the US have a lower life expectancy than many other countries, The USA's life expectancy is 78.06 years – this is not far from the European Union average of 78.7 years and it is higher than some Scandinavian countries (such
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by catz 17y ago
> lifespan for Paleolithic Homo sapiens was only forty years. That is 10 years longer that people in Swaziland. 40 is not that bad if you think that most hunter gatherer societies abandon old people (since food is a scarcity). So the li
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by catz 17y ago
Other programming areas that require math: Pattern recognition, control systems, encryption, image and video compression (discrete cosine transforms in JPEG, discrete wavelet transforms in JPEG2000) any type of simulation (e.g. SPICE for el
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by catz 17y ago
> particularly one that centers its business largely around being a venue for public criticisms of other companies? Companies such as that is vitally necessary. If you ever had dealings with a large shit company you would understand (e.
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by catz 17y ago
No liquid cooling? How efficient is the power supplies?

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