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33W··on The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
The slideshow that these are from says (on 6 of 14): "Degree: B.A., biology, Northwestern College. Career goal: Social worker."

Is says a bachelor of arts, but looking into Northwestern's programs more, I think it is a type. I agree that $50K of debt for a BS in Bio would be reasonable.

33W··on The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
Sorry if it was ambiguous, the listed dollar amount is student debt from the slideshow.
33W··on The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
Perhaps, but unless the slideshow had a typo, it was a BA in Biology...
33W··on The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave
So I'll admit my biases up front: I got a BS,CS degree at an in-state school, and used the GI Bill to pay for all of my tuition, and took loans for study abroad.

But taking a look at the slideshow, I'm seeing a trend in degrees/schools/debt.

BA, advertising & PR, Loyola, $75K

BA, lit & writing, UC San Diego, $44K

BA, economics, Loyola, $90K

BA, film studies, Full Sail, $80K

BA, psychology UCF, MS, counseling, Nova Southeastern, $40K

BA, biology, Northwestern, $50K

BA, economics, Hunter, $12K

BA, asian humanities, UCLA, $10K

BA, art history, Sonoma State, $27K

BA, history & religion, Midland, $11K

BA, comparitive literature, Hamilton, $20K

BFA, painting, Rhode Island School of Design, $25K

BFA, graphic design, School of Visual Arts, $130K

BA, communications, Calf. St. Fullerton, $22K

How do any of these student think that they'll do anything with these degrees to overcome the debt? The only two that make some sense to me are the $40K to get psychology/counseling, and $12K for economics.

33W··on FOI Request: leet speak (FBI)
My favorite: WTFT What the French toast? (polite WTF)
33W··on Amazon orders subject to replacement fraud (still)
From ICANN's perspective though, doesn't that mean that the owner of the domain is the registrar?

While most registrars would be perfectly fine, I worry about the one that is willing to take the domain for themselves (for a domain not worth going to court over).

While not exactly what happened, I remember the case of the @N twitter account be stolen (https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...), and wonder if having your actual information on the registration would help or hurt a situation like that.

33W··on California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional
> Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic freedom: it protects teachers and researchers when they dissent from prevailing opinion, openly disagree with authorities of any sort, or spend time on unfashionable topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(academic)

33W··on Fake Friends with Real Benefits
What about a solution using a crowd like Mechanical Turk and just presenting a de-contexted quote? This could be presented in a couple of ways:

Is this fact correct? or Does this statement seem correct?

Then present a phrase: "There are less than 10,000 troops in Afghanistan."

33W··on Apple Opens Up Touch ID To All Apps
I'll be interested to see how this is used. I've never liked biometrics as a password, as once it is compromised, it cannot be changed. They are much more useful as a username, in my opinion. Does anyone here have any specific uses in mind?
33W··on The Open-office Trap
Good to know! Thanks!
33W··on The Open-office Trap
Do you have a source for the engineer to office ratios at Google and Microsoft?
33W··on It's time for the US to use the metric system
If 1 Arroba was 25lbs, wouldn't a closer metricization be 10 kilos? This would be ~22lbs.

Was there some other history to make this significant of a change?

33W··on Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
Some alternative input systems can be useful for this type of maneuver, such as a gamepad or smartphone via app. Perhaps this is done from inside the vehicle, but in the case of attaching a trailer, this could be done from outside the rear of the vehicle to guide it precisely.
33W··on Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
Also comprehensive damages - hail, tornado, vandalism, or vehicular burglary.
33W··on Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
You can do this by setting all of the sliders except for the home price, then dialing it in until your rent is shown.
33W··on Why Your “Team” Page Should Actually Be About Your Team
It would be neat for the fun fake title to change to the real one on hover, that would provide the connection to me.
33W··on One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos
Because each video posted was 10 seconds with one frame per second. If this came from a source video, it would have been at a higher framerate.
33W··on One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos
aqua.flv would probably match the Aqua Teen Hunger Force clip behind the paywall?

To do some math (that may be helpful or not): 77000 YouTube videos * 10 frames per YouTube video / 24 frames per second / 3600 seconds per hour = 8.91 hours of video

33W··on My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal
I haven't been on Hulu in some time (~2 years), but I often saw a choice from 3 different ads.
33W··on Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship
The default status isn't as powerful with registered users as with unregistered lurkers. Hitting the main site for the first time will bring one to the defaults, and (likely) influences who joins or does not join the site.
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