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From what I read geekbench is basically comparing hardware acceleration for encryption. Not very useful for general purpose computing.

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curposti...

Some criteria are very easy to quantify. Authors race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status. It reflects on quality of art and its culture.

Arts Council is already using this criteria for grants and for hiring. It is only logical to use it on art itself.

> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country

It is not very good example. Greece took 600K refugees, Hungary similar numbers, etc...

Problem is that those countries do not offer any social benefits. Refugee needs at least 600 euro/month to feel welcomed. Albania is actually very unfriendly towards refugees.

It is one way ticket, obviously. Student loans would not be enforceable in foreign country, after personal bankruptcy.

Is not it easier to move abroad? In many countries student loans are included in personal bankruptcy. And you get citizenship with passport after 5 years of residency.

I am more worried about Saudi Arabia. It paid a lot of money to Pakistan.

In my experience it is best to create your own remote job.

You can start consulting / freelancing.

Or existing job can be made remote. Employer must trust you.

> Again, it's not about the education, it's about the willingness for someone to hire you and pay you money.

But this is not true. Employers are already not willing to pay university graduates 4x salary as they did a few decades ago. Correlation between university degree and skills is decreasing.

This already happened in post-communist countries, Germany etc.. 70% of people have university degree. Everyone is overqualified for 90% jobs, and you get PhDs who work as cashiers. In that environment nobody asks for education because it is waste of time (low correlation between degree and skills).

But I am talking about overhead. People should not pay 10x price, while being educated by temporary postdocs.

In that sense foreign universities are already disrupting US education with much lower overhead.

Take a 4 year bootcamp which operates in semesters, and you got something very similar to university.

Door labels in brail are useless. Just close your eyes and try it yourself. And even with brail it should cost under $40

Blind (or otherwise disabled) people should have an assistant to help them around.

Some MOOCs are already brail reader friendly. And online education in general has very little barriers.

One university decided to change signs on toilets. Single label costs $400, it has to be in brail and match various regulations.

I think education is ripe for disruption. We will see rise of bootcamps and online education. Also university in foreign country costs peanuts.

Two engines have more spare power than four engines. Single engine on twin must still be able to fly aircraft.

Four engine aircrafts are also more difficult/expensive to maintain. Most pilots prefer two engines.

I work remotely for past 5 years. Nothing beats that if you have small children.

Opera is surprisingly nice browser.. with adblocker

My best progress in shell was by switching to Fish. Much more intuitive for programmer. Guess what this does:

  while true
    clear
    df
    sleep 1
  end

> Everything that has an off switch has an on switch.

That is very naive. You can say that only because real and well organized attacks are very very rare.

Power Grid on its own is very complex system, and it is not trivial to revive it after blackout.

And second paragraph does not save it. Weak spots are everywhere. A few guys with rented trucks could cause blackout in several counties for weeks.

But you are "citizen enough" to pay taxes or receive social benefits. And some non-citizens can vote in Germany.

Anyway, by definition Basic Income is unconditional. Anyone who applies should get it.

But that would not be really basic income (which is unconditional). There would be second class of citizens. Something like controlled rent today.

How about immigration? Once Basic Income is introduced in one area, people from all over the world will start moving there.

Right now SF is not even capable to host 450 homeless arriving every year. What would you do if that number of people arrived every day or every hour?

> Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan.

Is not this a case? People immigrated to america from many continents.

I think 'balkanized' is good word to describe some health-care systems in Europe.

However I think there is a basic difference in approach. Hospitals in europe are usually uber clean, everything is desinfected and there is a small army of cleaners. My impression from US is that McDonnald was cleaner than hospital.

Second difference is post-operation treatment. People in weakened state are left in hospital for a few days for monitoring. With broken immune system (after chemotherapy) you get into strict hermetic isolation. In US leukemia patients go to hotel after treatments.

> The Soviets had not built the ‘super-fighter’ the Pentagon had feared, says Smithsonian aviation curator Roger Connor, but an inflexible aircraft built to do a very particular job.

There is no mention what MiG-25 was designed for. Its task was to intercept nuclear bombers flying over Soviet Union and it did this task pretty well.

Because it used steel it was cheap and easy to service. At that time soviets had lot of experience with titanium (space, submarines), but expensive plane similar to SR-71 would not cover entire Soviet Union.

I think most people would have very short retirement in Manhattan. They would run out of savings.

I block custom fonts. Some 'designed' typography gives me zero benefits. Page takes forever to load, and entire page is refreshed once font is downloaded.

Of course it is not forbidden, but is not in 'best interest of child'. It will take a bit longer if lawyer is involved and reduces your chances.

Here is a czech case, women loses parental rights because she published her case. She still works in Norway kindergarten...

She has long history with lawyers, her original lawyer was removed from case (against her will), second lawyer was not even allowed on hearing...

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/norsko-michalakova-soud-0w5-/domaci.a...

Anyway, I do not live in norway, good luck.

Yeah, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian governments all got diplomatically involved for conspiracy theory.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-norway-accused-of-unfairly...

I think we are on a different planets.

I just told you parent is not even allowed to talk to a lawyer, if such thing happens and escalates.

I would recommend you to research this a bit more, if you decide to have a children. Problem are not 'strict laws', but the way there are applied. One single accusation can remove your children, you have no right to even talk to a lawyer and maybe in 6 years you will get some sort of appeal.

Sources are all over internet, Norway is only country with this problem, just google it.