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The problem is definitely out there, and my best wishes to this project. You may also want to address the burden of proof for speaker qualification.

Provide them false information; if they are who they say they are, they'll be confused, at which point you know it's probably the bank. :)

My aunt had surgery about a year ago, and our family paid out quite a bit of money to everyone involved in her surgery. On top of the normal fees, we gave the surgeon, first assist, second assist, anesthesiologist, and even the secretary large sums of money.

When my mother told me about this, I was shocked. "Why?" I asked. You'll have to understand that my family in China, while well off, has never participated in the cycles of alleged corruption. In fact, my uncle rejects so many bribes (gifts from business interactions) to the point that people have started leaving gifts anonymously at my grandmother's door.

Yet, this wasn't about getting ahead in life. My mother told me, "we just want to make sure they have an incentive to do the best job they can." Honestly, I don't blame her. We didn't pay to skip a line, and we didn't pay for any organs (not that type of surgery anyway). We paid the people involved because we felt it would inspire them to do a better job.

Is that wrong? Maybe. I don't really know anymore.

Anyone have an idea as to why?

Hardest I've laughed in about a week. +1

I guess the problem is that objective information is hard to standardize in a reviewing system. Plus, I've actually been wondering whether humans would view objective statistics with more faith than human reviews - no matter how ridiculous they are.

In cold conditions, which of the following freeze before the others?

1. Bridges

2. Overpasses

3. Shaded Areas

4. All of the above

I wasn't entirely sure what a "shaded area" was, but I figured eventually that it must be some area under shade from the sun. Next, "all of the above" didn't make sense, because how can "all of the above" freeze before all of the above? I figured that water has a higher specific heat capacity than ground, and thus in cold conditions, the heat from the water would keep bridges warmer for slightly longer. I answered Overpasses.

Apparently the answer was "all of the above". The funny thing is, when I ask this question to people, I find a pretty consistent correlation between responses: for my non-university educated friends, they typically answer D. On the other hand, my university educated friends (whose majors vary significantly) tend to answer A, B, C, or "D doesn't make sense".

The standard answer is supposed to be hen, as it is the only bird.

I believe the standard answer is a "hen" because it's the only one that is gender-specific. In fact, it is distinctly the odd-one out because it doesn't even refer to a specific genus (or even family) of animal.

I'm all for creativity (I have the same complaint often) but there needs to be some sort of standardization in communication and society. A genius who can't communicate any of his/her ideas might as well be no genius at all.

Does anyone know why some East Asians (such as myself) are lactose tolerant? Is that evidence of interbreeding in the past?

B (Admission of guilt) -> A (Truth) is not the same as A -> B.

1. Spam user's social network on sign up; 2. Send out periodic blasts about progress/offers as the user continues using the app.

The first method will likely net you terrible reviews and negative sentiment, while for the second, an exploratory mode wouldn't really hurt you. The key would be designing exactly when and how the sign up should be. For example, maybe after 5 days or 5 app opens (whichever is more), the app loses functionality until you connect. It'd be different for every app. For games (or gamified aspects), you could just incentivize sharing.

Signing is a conscious decision on part of the user to accept the possibility that your app will spam their wall with achievements and updates. If you ask them to take the risk before you show them why they should, it's natural to expect such a large drop off; I've personally deleted several apps because of it.

What's the logic behind this? After all, DDoSers probably aren't upstanding citizens.

They've helped me in the past with stupid things Rogers and Bell have done, but they don't have any legitimate power. I'm usually for deregulation, but this market is too highly monopolized. What I'd give for a FCC

Rogers also sends text message spam every month. You can't opt out. I have called on 4 separate occasions and spoken to a manager, asking to be opted out of the spam. The first few times, they apologized and told me I'd be taken off the list. After I wasn't, I asked to speak to a manager, who called me back.

He told me, "Sir, that isn't spam. Those are Rogers marketing messages." After I told him that I, the customer, considered it spam and would no longer like to receive them, he told me, "I will forward your request to our marketing department, and they will determine whether it is spam."

Best company.

Can a creationist benefit scientific knowledge? Will a person benefit scientific knowledge more by choosing creationism over evolution? I doubt it, at least in a general case.

Unless you count prayer as an attempt to further an understanding of the world through Creationism, I'd say my post was right on the money.

Science is moving forward, creationism is not. Regardless of which is right or which is more justifiable, it's not even debatable, which one promotes the pursuit of knowledge.

It discourages scientific criticism of ideas. When you are taught a scientific fact or theory, you are always welcomed to, and often encouraged to question it. "Why is acceleration 9.81m/s^2? How do I know that it is true as of right now? If I carry out my own experiment, will I see this?" When you listen to the "word of god", this is no longer the case. You know it's right because someone, thousands of years ago, apparently said it is.

Yes, it can waste tax dollars - but we can always make more dollars. An innovative generation that can carry on mankind's survival? That's a little more important.

This however, is really cool.

I ran an MMO a while ago, and we would have a few hundred login packets spammed every minute. When we were DDoS'd, I responded by moving my server to a larger line (1 gbps) since the DDoS itself wasn't nearly as massive. Yet, we had no way of figuring out (at a base level) what was a legitimate packet.

The best part about them giving buyers refunds is that if you, as a seller, want to dispute their chargeback, you have to pay Paypal an administrative fee ^_^

A/B test the price points with a pre-registration, and do not take payment information yet.