imjustsaying

>Is it really that different? There are some people who are good and some people who end up being opportunistic in evil ways. The more I learn about differences across cultures, the more I conclude that the differences are always ones of degree, and the differences are made more visible due to the cultural contrasts.

Exactly. When you have a culture that more often accepts scams as necessary to succeed and another culture that shuns them, you will probably see disparities in the percentages of people in those cultures who are willing to scam. Ostracism is a powerful deterrent.

>perfect test scores, 4.0 GPA, spending youth striving towards

While this generally increases acceptance odds, by no means do medical schools require this. I always recommend fact-checking tidbits of K-12 daycare lore. Once upon a time, I believed the 'impossible to enter unless perfect stats' rumors too until I looked at the actual data. Apply early in the cycle and broadly to many schools and the numbers quickly turn in your favor.

>t. 30-something who got into a US medical school with closer to a 3.0 (although a 4.0 in the prereqs), a ~50 percentile MCAT, and a soft science bachelors, focusing less than 2 years in late twenties to do so.

Agreed, although I'm not sure iPads are cheaper than budget laptops even after whatever subsidy Apple may give schools to do vendor lock-in.

This doesn't bode well for the "Are schools daycares or for skill development?" debate.

I dont understand the iPad thing. Why not laptops? It's a huge burden to do work on a toy instead of a proper machine. They're being conditioned to use inferior tooling.

Glad you asked, as this article reminded me of that. Outside of Northern China, where Mandarin is original dialect, the answer is no, Mandarin is not understood throughout the country on a level that English is in the US.

It's a kind of second language for many, with younger generations generally being more fluent than their elders. Like the Indonesian dialect, it's somewhat forced by recent government mandate except for the North where it's from.

The frequency of overhearing people asking each other for more clarification showed me that language barriers existed, even among university students. English by contrast is much more consistent and far less ambiguous among accents and dialects across the globe.

At first when people complimented me on my English, I didn't really understand why until I realized most Chinese are not fluent in Mandarin in the way I am fluent in English. It seemed they thought the same fluency disparity would exist among US natives with English.

chromebooks would be great if it weren't for the rather large software limitations of their ARM processors. so many packages and libraries just wont work. at that point, chromebooks feel like just another toy similar to your phone.

>in most SEA cities

>sidewalk coin

Rich man would pick it up, that's $720/hour if it takes 5 seconds. It's things like that that make you rich. Poor guy would probably pick it up too unless he's paranoid people will think he's poor.

>bus

Again looks like huge earnings per hour. He'll take the bus in this example unless he has something very lucrative that he's missing out on, but he's drunk so that's very unlikely.

>restaurant

Depends on the cost of the different places. It might not be worth the time to walk to the other place if the difference isn't great. If he's on a weekday lunchbreak, his time might be better spent elsewhere. Same thing for the poor guy.

>actually useful drug programs

For example?

how does cannabis affect healthy life span?

(2010)

Literally Who: The List

got some references as to why they are big hitters for the uninformed such as myself?

>You can do 90% of something, but the last 10% takes years, or never gets done.

The point of my post was to let you know how easy it would be to accidentally kill someone due to mismeasuring the dose. Calibrating a scale before and after measuring a dose then verifying with a second method is something dealers aren't used to doing.

The dealers' intended approach is likely not to kill off their customers. I'm willing to bet they simply don't realize what to look out for.

Even a proper scale that's all of a sudden miscalibrated could cause an overdose.

-don't blame on malice what can be blamed on folly

The problem with 2-term limits is that the official has more of an incentive to loot as much as he possibly can as soon as his second term begins because he doesn't have to worry about spinning the looting to voters anymore.

However, I do recognize that the looting probably occurs anyway without fear due to the high likelihood of incumbent re-election.

Older people objectively know more.

CRISPR continues to cause more off-target mutations than it solves.

Genetic diversity is not a requirement for a species.

Bacteria don't even have sex, and while they can pick up DNA from other bacteria via conjugation, it's not necessary for their reproduction.

All you have to do is look at the final effect, Z. The stated purpose X may or may not be the intended purpose Y. Even if stated purpose X genuinely = intended purpose Y, the actual effect Z matters the most. You're spot on.

> A typical figure for a 15 year mission was a 75% chance of it making it the whole way, including launch. It's checked to an extreme degree. I've had people come back and correct an un-dotted 'i' symbol in a handwritten notebook. Really.

Can you break down this calculation? Where did 75% come from? I think your parent poster's point is this: no one really knows where these numbers are coming from.

>“Cloudwick has never brought resources from India,” Chhabra said. “All the resources are Master’s students that have educated in U.S. and then we hired and trained them.”

Is the excavator referring to humans?

How are you going to contact people who live far from artificial light? Typically that's concomitant with not having electricity needed for internet communications, as that typically prevents powered cell phone internet communication as well.

You could fly then drive there, but the costs are going to add up quickly. You're going to have to find them, get someone to communicate with them, and have liabilities covered. This quickly becomes very expensive with even just a few people.

I never understood why people took p-values seriously. They never seemed to mean anything of use.

Whenever I brought it up around other academics, no one seemed to want to comment on it. Maybe they were afraid to admit they didn't understand a topic that's apparently important to publishing? Anyone can follow the formula to make a p-value, but there's no requirement to understand its meaning.

I'd love to find their use, but I still haven't found it.

I didn't expect this from Reason, a libertarian magazine.

Libertarians tend to support free and voluntary association. The college is not stopping these students from voluntarily hiking together. The college is simply saying: we don't want to get eaten alive by the potential liability if you hike together with our organization's name attached.

If anything, you'd think Reason would applaud the college for not strapping the non-hiking student with the increased insurance costs of allowing the hiking group to continue.

>sarcasm

>strawman

>The problem now, and perhaps always was the graphics APIs and cost of porting.

Perhaps some special financial incentives from Valve to big studios would be able to get the rock moving down the mountain? Temporary discounts perhaps?

As a Linux-only user, there are almost no Linux-compatible games I'm interested in playing on Steam. So, if I have that rare desire to load up a game, I always find myself going back to TF2, which I didn't even pay money for, and at this point am about as entertained by as Solitaire.

None of the big name releases ever seem to be available. I understand this is due to the game studio's decision of not spending the money on porting to a market that they calculate would make up a rounding error in revenue.

I'm sure there are Linux-compatible indie games out there that would be nice to try, but I'm a casual gamer and I don't have time to research and trial and error what might be a good fit for me.

Entirely predictable and only a matter of time, but talking about it IRL is equivalent to downvote fodder on HN. I want workers to get fair wages, but it often seems the boomers/Gen X achieve that by loading debt onto millennials and future generations.

>BART janitor grossed $270K in pay and benefits last year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12852104

>scientifically prove

That's not how the scientific method works.