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And you don't think that other countries have consulates and embassies that are willing to help their citizens?

Mostly India and China?

From a sample size of 2, let's conclude that many of Europe's leaders are childless!

I find it surprising that Trump supporters worry about no-go zones in Sweden. Have they ever been to New York City? Have you visited Bronx, neighborhoods in Brooklyn, or Jamaica in Queens, East New York, and would you consider them safe? NYC is your country, not a foreign country in Europe.

The RT dot com sites are essentially Russian propaganda.

The president of the US has quite a lot of powers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_the_President_of_the...

You can have two jobs if you want to. They won't stop you from that.

I still have not managed to find the original paper.

It was not the government of Sweden that brought the world IKEA.

You kiddin'? NYC is a massively segregated city, essentially whole neighborhoods are defined by race.

Cancer cannot only be solved with algorithms and machine learning. Remember that it's biology, not informatics. A lot of smart people have been working on cancer for decades. It's unlikely MS will 'solve' cancer.

Having lived a big chunk of my life in both the US and a Scandinavian country, I would say that taxes are a lot more complicated in the US. There is no way you can do your taxes in the US without the help of special computer software (e.g. turbotax) or help from professional accountants.

Why awful? I used it once in NYC. It was really not cheaper than a regular car rental, but other than that it was not bad. It was convenient not having to deal with lining up at a front desk when getting the car and returning it. Also the app makes extending your time easy.

I wonder what those elements are?

The kissing bug carries a unicellular organism called Trypanosoma cruzi [1], which is what causes the human disease. T. cruzi is transmitted by the kissing bug into the human host, where it can remain dormant for years while completing its life cycle. What is so nasty with this parasite is that it hides inside normal cells, proliferating slowly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_cruzi

There is the Blue card, seems easy to get compared to the U.S. "green card".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union)

Sounds like a lot. For a comparison, how many startups are there in Silicon Valley?

Associations between genetics and traits (such as diseases, height, etc) are already very common in science. One of the main problems is that you need extremely large sample sizes to see any effect. These kind of studies are called genome-wide association studies. Many common traits need hundreds of thousands of individuals if the genetic link is suspected to be weak (which is the case for most common diseases), making such studies extremely expensive, not to mention time-consuming.

It doesn't seem like a "tremendously empowering force for its followers prosperity" today.

Does it really matter that much? Nobody thinks that searching online is a "foreign technology", even if it is, who cares?

<rant> Checks are the most annoying part of paying my rent in the US. In Europe it was just a few clicks online. Here it sometimes takes two weeks until the landlord clears the check. </rant>

PLOS ONE is a bit special in the PLOS family of journals. They publish essentially _anything_, as long as it's scientifically correct, it doesn't matter how interesting the science is. Usually scientists try to get their paper published in other journals first (e.g. PLOS Biology), and if it is rejected there they submit it to PLOS One.

I don't cite packages like plyr and ggplot, but I do cite what program I use for statistics (R, etc) and its version.

Genetic algorithms are also immensely slow, perhaps too slow to be useful on a very large dataset.

The H1B visa requires a minimum pay as it is right now. However, what some companies do when they sponsor a foreign worker for H1B is to hire the person part time on paper and thus being able to pay a lower wage, but still in practice requiring him or her to work full time. This is an anecdote I heard but I know it occurs. For many people, having the chance to come to the U.S. is like winning the lottery, and they will not report their employer.

Why was the software not such a big problem with other jets like F-16 and F-22? Is the F-35 software really so much more complicated?

Having lived in New York for more than 3 years, I'm ashamed to say that I did not know about this neighborhood. I guess it's hard to pull yourself out of poverty when you are born into it. Being a foreigner in this country I feel I have no right to criticise it.

The majority of scientific research in the U.S. and elsewhere is funded by tax-payers money in the form of research grants. The outcome of this research (the paper) should be free.

Echo is a great utility. I had mine for just a week, and I already feel attached. However, I feel it needs more AI. For example, I can ask it "What is the temperature today?", and I get a straight forward answer. But I cannot ask "How is the temperature today compared to yesterday?".