goodJobWalrus

>in his article around 2013[0] he defines them

Aileen is a woman.

> The problem is that that model keeps a lot of people outside the working market because their skills simply aren't worth the salaries they would have to get because of this model.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot of people", but Denmark has one of the highest employment rates among OECD countries, so it's actually doing great at keeping people in employment (comparably).

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-and-work/em...

No, basically, that is not what the article (or WHO) says.

Cleavage does not feature a lot in the top 100 actually, but I'm half way there, in a sense that I'm a female. I'll definitely try the half-forehead thing next time!

For me, this thing about having the top of your head cut from the picture is new. Who would have thought..

From my understanding, they are not even allowed to work in Lebanon. So, yes, contrary to what the top comment said, even in Lebanon they are still in a prison they need to escape from.

"Switching careers" also implies that he found a job as a programmer. I imagine it's really difficult to convince someone to employ someone who is 60+ and just learned to code.

To me, the saddest thing about George was that he seems to have merely existed, while he was alive. From the article, he didn't seem to have any passions or ambitions. He didn't seem to want to go and see things, experience things, do things. He died in the same apartment, he was born in. He didn't really live, he just was, completely passive, until he wasn't.

At least that is the impression I got from reading this.

Not sure about that. I would say it became more common for men to help with the housework from the 70's onward, and we had 40 hour weeks way before that. Do you think that the men who worked for Ford in the 1920s and 1930s, started helping with the housework after they implemented 40 hour work week? No, it think it's more likely that women had to prove themselves capable money earners first.

The fact that you are calling common house appliances "modern tech" made me smile, but essentially you are right, anything that came about in the last 100 years can be called modern.

As for whether it caused more women to work, I can imagine that it really did facilitate the transition. It would take much longer if women had to negotiate housework with their husbands first. Instead, it happened the other way around, women came out to work first, while doing household chores at the same time, and in time men transitioned to helpful spouses later.

Why? Massimo Dutti is in Canada, but it doesn't look like anyone of American brands in that space was "destroyed".

Those who use it as a status symbol, may view it as a business expense.

Does anyone know what happens to the people when they get old, so they become gullible? Is there some physiological mechanism, or is it just that older people are less sophisticated about those issues?

In this [1] excellent book, it is said that they do it as form of saving. Basically, they don't have bank accounts, and they know that if they don't buy those 1-2 bricks right away after they get paid, they'll spend the money on something else.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Pove...

answer to your second q is no:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-last-day-of-h...

(long article but worth a read)

They made me do it when I worked at an investment bank.

Since you mentioned dried fruit twice, I thought you might find interesting that WHO recommends counting dried fruit as added sugar (also honey and natural syrups, such as maple, in addition to what we usually count as added sugar).

From a cursory look at this, it appears that it indeed is not a thing in most of the world.

Is that really a thing in the rest of the world? I thought it was mostly the US, and even there mostly the homeschooling thing.

But that is the point. Why are women happy to sacrifice their career, for the sake of the family, and men not as much. So, is that really a choice for all these women, or perhaps a necessity?

Still, it's interesting that 80% of women and only 20% of men are most happy working part time. Why such large discrepancy?

I find this article interesting in the light of recent passing of Dave Goldberg, when most of the commentators got on to "please folks see your doctor", even if you are healthy, bandwagon.

Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack.

https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801

I do yoga, pilates, barre and general strength training, but most importantly those 3 I mentioned increase your postural awareness in addition to increasing flexibility and strength.

Function of aid is not to cause economic growth. Function of aid is to have a child not die of malaria.

I think that everyone should be getting their data from the same place, one of the major reservation systems, depending on the airline. For example, if you are looking at British Airways, it is served by Amadeus.

Are you saying that 70% of calories you consumed in the last 9 month came from Soylent? Are you sure about that? I'm mostly asking because it's well known that people underestimate how much food they eat, so unless you actually made food diary you are probably underestimating as well.

Aside for that, in what way was this a huge boon to your life?

Or 1/3 of a muffin as a serving. Ridiculous, but a lot of people probably fall for it. It's mostly North American thing tho. In Europe, you usually get calories per 100 grams, so you can compare different foods to each other as well.

Thank you for not requiring email to download the cheat sheet. Almost all companies/websites say they put customer first, but when they require your information to let you read something for "free", it's obvious they are bullshitting. So, good job there.

No, sellers that refer to themselves as crafters are actually saying exactly the opposite. This business model that allows manufacturing is unfair to them because they can't compete, essentially. The same way crafters can't compete with manufacturing on any other marketplace. And they are disappointed because Etsy has originally promised to be different.

And their problem is not only price competition from chinese trinket sellers, but also visibility. Because manufacturers have many more products, small sellers don't show up in search results any more.