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I kind of see it like saying "I want to buy something on your website - but I don't want to give you an email address or credit card!" Obviously not a perfect analogy, but really, you are going on their turf and utilizing their services. If you don't want to play by their rules, don't patronize them.
One of the more interesting things he went over from the book was the discrepancy between males and females in PhD in the hard sciences. While many claimed discrimination, what it turned out to be a slew of different issues. Except from his lecture, taken without permission:
Why Are Female Faculty Members Underrepresented at Research Universities Relative to Liberal Arts Colleges 1. Gender differences in preferences for teaching vs. research 2. Perceptions by female PhDs that research universities are not hospitable environments for them 3. Perceptions by female PhDs that there is more gender discrimination against female faculty at research universities 4. Actual gender discrimination against female PhDs in the hiring process and against female faculty in salary, tenure, promotion and resource allocation decisions at research universities 5. The difficulty of combining family and career at research universities
The remainder of my discussion is going to focus on the last explanation and discuss some policies designed to reduce these difficulties that have been implemented at the University of California. However, before doing so, I want to stress that issues relating to the conflict between family and career that professional women face are not unique to academia. For example, 1. Why are female lawyers underrepresented among the partners of large law firms? 2. Why are female doctors underrepresented among neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons and overrepresented among family practice physicians and pediatricians?
National Research Council Committee (that I served on) Survey In 2004-2005 the National Research Council Committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty surveyed departments in research universities in six disciplines – biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, and physics. A second survey surveyed over 1,800 faculty in these departments. Among its major findings were: 1. If a male and a female apply for the a position, the female is more likely to be invited for an interview 2. If a male and female are both interviewed for a position, the female is more likely to receive the job offer. Hence 3. Female under representation relative to their share of the new PhD pool is due primarily to their not applying for jobs at research universities as often as males do. Furthermore 4. Female assistant professors in these fields are more likely to leave their positions than their male colleagues prior to being considered for tenure. Given that they are considered for tenure, they are more likely to be promoted and receive tenure than their male colleagues, but their average time until receiving tenure is longer than their male colleagues’ average time 5. There were no differences in the probabilities of being promoted to full professor or the time it took to receive this promotion. Source: National Research Council, Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2009)
/end quote Granted, this does not directly apply to top scientists but I think many of you would agree that the fact that the volume of highly trained (read: PhD.) women scientists is significantly lower than that of men probably leads, in part, to the discrepancy among top scientists.
Now, I note that you could argue the Manhattan product is a reason for Einstein's relevance, but was he really significantly more relevant in that than any other of the scientists?
People know politicians because they affect taxes, healthcare, laws, etc. They know sports stars because it's a subject they enjoy following - featuring impressive feats of human ability. And they probably know a few individuals closer to their field of work.
Is Einstein really an example of something that 'everyman' should know about, or could your argument partially be a confirmation of the article's argument?
Barring super-secure sites like banks, if you have the email password, you have every 'forgot my password' link available - which will typically either let you reset the password, locking the user out, or even send you the password itself!
This fact made me stop caring too much about varying individual 'random site' passwords - I just make sure to use a unique for my email.
The reason this frustrates me so much is that it encourages diving. If you are tripped, step on the group poorly, lose your breath, get the wind knocked out of you, etc., it behooves you to dive and try to convince the ref to stop the game (often convincing the other team to kick the ball out). While you wouldn't be able to sub immediately either, players try to make their injuries seem more severe to get more recovery time, knowing they'll have to perform in full form when they get up. Open substitution would make it so the players would have to accurately convey to their coaches whether or not they should be substituted. Feigned injury severity would result in miscues as to strategic advantage by substitution.
-Ref inquisitively looks at Fabiano, pointing to his arm -Fabiano jokingy shakes his head, smiling, waving his hands in front of himself -Ref laughs, points to his chest incredulously as if indicating that is in fact what made contact with the ball
For me, given the deliberate pointing, this interchange was pretty clear. Even if he did mean something along the lines of what you said, it's terribly inappropriate to do something that could even be interpreted that way. A 2-1 score is VERY different than a 3-1 game, and nobody would deny that the Ivory Coast was attacking strongly through the finish. I know if I were on CIV, I'd be livid the ref was fraternizing with the other team, perhaps because they're brazilian superstars.
Bad calls are one thing - this is another entirely. This, and all the dives makes it hard for me to take the World Cup as a serious competitive sporting competition.
Many rebut with 'haven't you watched basketball' or some other replacement with referee judgement calls, but no other sport has frequently over HALF of the scoring of one game decided by such non-objective means.
/end campus rep plug
Very little content, but interesting to look at the design of the top graphic. According to article, logo was designed by his 14-year old daughter.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554166
which links to this article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Perhaps not an argument against, but certainly a 'reality' check argument against the "it's so obvious we should do it" mentality that seems to thrive in online forums.
http://rso.cornell.edu/ccra/ - Check out our website. We're an undergraduate-run org and to our knowledge are the largest organization of our type in the nation. Our efforts to get programs started at other schools have been underwhelming.
I kept thinking to myself, "Why would anyone ever buy an eBook reader? Netbooks are becoming cheaper and cheaper (much cheaper than readers even then), smartphones are becoming better and better - and those are full-fledged computers."
To this day, I still don't completely know the answer....except what I do know is that a lot of people spend a lot of money on eBook readers. Perhaps it's something along the lines of facebook chat - just because facebook has it, and ALL your facebook friends are on it doesn't mean people have switched over to it en masse. I still use and prefer many other chat programs - perhaps for stylistic, habitual, or illogical reasons - but significant reasons enough.
To foursquare - I say keep going. At the very least, competition is good, and at best, I think you have a good shot.
-Use the resources available to you as a result of your undergrad status. Free multi-thousand dollar industry reports, free legal advice from law experts/professors, free tech advice from tech departments, etc -On-campus tech transfer offices offer further advantages
On a similar note, people concerned with explosives on airplanes should consider the fact that the majority of cargo (non-passenger underbelly packages, which are on nearly every flight nowadays) are never screened, in any way. Wouldn't be hard to get a detonator (cell phone?) through security or to detonate remotely.
1) Add an in-browser audio control
I had to mess around with my equalizers to get it to sound right (bass static problem), and I'm sure we all have memories of scrambling to lower volume when controls aren't nearby.
Perhaps urban myth, but I remember 5-10 years ago people would talk of large percentages of online content consisting of such material.
Regarding most points made on this thread - I really don't think it's that simple. Steve Yegge's post on the subject is by far my favorite on the complexities of the subject, and not surprisingly, something I share with the majority of my smoker friends.
Not surprisingly, this isn't happening. Too often people expect people to make the most correct, informed decisions. That simply is not the case.
MIT stood out as an exception; the rest I dealt with were par at best. Fast forward two years - I now attend an ivy league school with what I would consider a laughable website and data storage system.
"You must close your browser to log out of the system" - I don't even have to probe to know it's bad.