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His "Bill Gates education" analogy doesn't really make sense to me. I think he is saying that it would create a bunch of super rich people but I don't think you get Bill Gates by education alone (IIRC Outliers supports that). The major of people would probably join the middle class (and not "stop short", the middle class is a great place to be compared to poverty) and lessen income inequality, even if one or two became billionaires.

> Feeling very righteous and indignant...

Recognizing those feelings and knowing that it is time for a walk and NOT time to respond to emails is a useful skill.

And they thought it was a good idea to go to the holiday party after being fired and escorted out...

That think that's giving too much credit to the criminal, organized crime all seems to come down to greed.

> Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Second this one. Larson can really write history to be a page turner.

I really like your result. The colors especially make it hard for me to believe a computer made that.

To clarify these are airbags designed to protect you in a downhill crash (which are usually very violent for big alpine riders) but avalanche airbags that help you rise to the top of the stream of snow have been pretty standard equipment for the past ~5 years.

This is so true. It isn't just access, it's that what you get is usually bad. My experience is if you're stuck using insurance usually you can give up hope of finding someone under 50 who actually gives a crap.

Did it work for you? Any side effects?

Google suggests you can buy it as a research chemical (here have this random white power...).

> " I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him."

Awesome article, thanks for sharing.

The article is certainly nothing if not well cited.

He wants to find dino poo, that is a cool 4 year old!

The article says it was ruled he wasn't breaking the law when it came to the modified “Yes Rasta” picture. Unless I missed it I don't think his Instagram "art" has been challenged in court.

It's also kind of dark to learn the stories behind / life after these. It really ruins a lot people's lives.

The "pipeline problem" isn't nearly as cut and dry as you seem to assert and ignoring systematic biases in hiring, promoting and funding by just saying it is an education problem isn't helpful. Thinking from a top down instead of bottom up, what if the lack of STEM education in a community is due to that community seeing no representation in the leadership (or even employees) of major companies? I don't think you can get people into STEM if the people think the game is rigged against them when it comes to hiring.

> The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: a 30-year analysis

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...

> Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley...

> I bet those that already work at Facebook and Google don't want to work with people who aren't qualified to be there, strictly in the name of diversity.

No one is saying they should hire unqualified people.

I've never been able to pay with a card in any taxi in New Jersey. The state doesn't even require meters, you have to just take the driver's price or leave it. The more developed taxi industries (large cities) all have great rules about requiring access to CC machines, the smaller places no so much.

I listened to this one with a PhD in genetics. We both thought it was really well done and produced be he thought it was really overblown. His reasoning was that CRISPR requires a lot of tries to get right and isn't the magical gene editing tool the podcast suggests.

Just a guess: most musicians write their own lyrics which gives much more insight into who they are. Actors are always wearing masks.

Time for a corollary to Atwood's Law: any application that can be created in Minecraft will eventually be created in Minecraft.

I JUST started this exact functionality to communicate with a wireless scale, thanks for sharing!

The Germans have more active personnel. There are a lot of ways to define the power of a military force though obviously.

Russia also has a history of "testing" airspace of other countries though.

Germany is the second biggest military power in the EU after France.

Depends on the state. Most give a lot of freedom to videotaping people in public spaces but audio is usually stricter. In PA for example, it is illegal.

Aren't taxes a zero sum game? If one "dodges" any amount the state must make up that revenue somewhere so the actors with finances and ability to best take advantage of the system then end up not paying their fair share?

I've experienced #2, with Plex you can make playlists and shuffle through them though which I find mimics TV pretty well (without the ads).

Ah good looking out.

It's in the article, he posted: "media prostitutes, who have sold our independence for money and put out anti-Russian scum on a daily basis aiming at increase NATO war mongering".

So he's alleging she's a paid NATO propagandist.