yukoncornelius

I appreciate your response, but I disagree with your normative advice.

How does this self-righteous non-sense make the front page, again. Just because Danielle was a "conference ho" doesn't mean everyone falls into the trap.

I'm not sure if this is a fantastic development. Placing a copy of the journal article on the agency website is cheap, but the burden of opening the data is going to be costly. This may cut funds available for subsequent research due to reallocation of the funds to opening the research to the public.

For many workers and managers this is true. For the manager with a crack staff in which many work offsite but are great communicators and productive employees this is a nightmare.

If she acted as Mike suggests she likely has a history of being an idiot and CBP will be happy to reprimand/release her.

Not even close the USCG was under the Dept of Transportation not the Marines before being merged into DHS in 2002. Also, in time of war the Navy can annex the USCG.

If this story went down exactly as Mike suggests the agent will lose her job or at least her federal law enforcement qualification.

On the other hand, Mike is pleading his case in the court of public opinion, and his reputation is likely going to get him a lot of popular support either warranted or unwarranted.

Do like writing grant proposals? Because in the biological sciences that is what you will be doing, and you will be competing against other smart folks which results in a 6% chance of a successful proposal. Then you can do some research while drafting journal articles, teaching undergraduates, and working for tenure by serving on a bunch of committees.

In short, there is very little research in the above Ph.D. in academia career.

The term you are looking for is a post-scarcity economy.

You cannot simply blame the government policymakers. Civil servants make the policies based on Congressional direction. Congress develops laws due to public pressure which is often led by lobby efforts. Who funds the the lobbyists?

The entire society is guilty for the current state of economic affairs as civil servants don't stand up to Congress, Congress wants to get re-elected, the public is easily distracted, and the 1% or .001% fund the lobbies.

A lot of misinformation in these comments centers around the fact that many universities constructed new buildings from 2008-2012 as construction costs were low due to the high levels of under and unemployed in the construction sector. This factor combined with poor expected returns to their endowments made it appear wise to make capital investments. Whether this was a good or bad idea won't be realized for many years.

Yes, its government failure which is a more inefficient allocation of resources than would occur without the government intervention.

Many employers, especially those with a dedicated HR department, call the stated university verify degrees. This is especially true if a security clearance/background check is an employment requirement. I believe a Yahoo exec got caught by this last year.

Gravity and cohesion-tension theory.

Pass on the frat and join the rugby club. The beer is free and fitness is a by product of participation.

The Patriots have used this analysis:

http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/Teaching/Sci199_03/Footbal...

I also believe Belichek/Adams have funded some football economics research.

The problem is very few gyms have bumper plates and platforms. Further, many gyms frown upon the use of chalk.

What is the app?

"I have little doubt that motivated self-study with the appropriate books would have produced an equally valuable education in the subject"

Much easier said than done. The course plan, deadlines, and grade that are parts of a university course force motivation that often does not exist in self-study. In my case, I've only engaged in "motivated self-study", when I have been very motivated to solve a narrow problem and my studying was similarly narrow.

In the US try the local microbrewery(s) for relief from a loud bar/pub. Unofrtunately, in the bay Area these may be upper class targeted, but in other areas you get a great mix of townies and beer fans.

I'm a mountaineer and never knew of these sites. Absolutely thrilled to see them on HN. Also, I'd pay for a user friendly data centric weather app focused on ski, climb, and outdoor activity weather reporting. I've been using nws.noaa.gov and weather.unisys.com for years and the UI is lacking. Just installed the free climbingweather.com app!!

The work is farmed out to the National Labs and federally funded RDCs from a coordinating office:

"Olympic Games borrowed some for what they termed "destructive testing," essentially building a virtual replica of Natanz, but spreading the test over several of the Energy Department's national laboratories to keep even the most trusted nuclear workers from figuring out what was afoot."

The engineers working on the P-1s are employed by Sandia, ORNL, LANL, Mitre, RAND, SRI, etc and are in the dark about project specifics due to compartmentalization. Want a job:

http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/internships/...

He is also a Professor at Georgetown and teaching graduate level theory of computation and distributed computing:

http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html

So the opportunity is there to take his course and practice his message.

If you have data, yes. If not, you are just being the antagonist.

As an economist I wish more people would follow the math/econ option and add CS coursework. Unfortunately, most economist are scared to venture beyond Excel, Stata, and SAS, and I believe this creates a professional focus on static models.

Careerwise, not studying CS has not impacted my income, but it may have impacted my ability to get a job in CS. However, I blame this more on my own inability to signal CS competency.

FKNA rock on with the ski fanaticism.

More importantly, there is a lot of room for disruption in the ski industry, and some interesting startups are pushing the edge of ski design. For example DPS Skis has developed the Spoon--"the first ski built with reverse camber forward, back and torsionally." Also, I would be interested in another alpine touring binding to compete Dynafit and its clones.