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It would have nice to see them compare salaries and cost of living in these hubs.

The vast majority of education funding comes from the states, so cutting federal funding won't really have much impact.

"That means the Federal contribution to elementary and secondary education is about 8 percent" - https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

It really makes me wonder what we need the Department of Education for...

He is correct in a way. As long as the government is trying to "control" the economy, it will be "politicized". The only way to not "politicize" the U.S. economy is to get rid of the Federal Reserve, etc.

I don't think that the rarity of starvation in modern times is due to central banks, but instead due to advances in farming that allows a very small percentage of people to produce enough food for everyone.

Physicians don't think they can manage and control the billions of cells in our bodies; we still don't understand how all of our cells even work. Physicians apply tested practices to individual people and hope that it addresses whatever medical problem is being observed. They understand that treatments are not one-size-fits-all and that mistakes can kill people. They also understand that our bodies self regulate and they are only trying to address a specific imbalance in their specific patient, not something that applies to an entire population.

Central banks think they can turn a couple of knobs (currency supply and interest rates) and control an entire economy made up of millions of people. Using the physician example, that's like thinking that the only two treatments needed for any medical condition are adjustments to our blood level and body temperature.

Monetary policy is a newer invention in the history of human civilization and even then, it wasn't always applied so universally. Monetary policy can only exist with central banks.

I don't know who defined this originally, but the six characteristics that money needs to have are durability, divisibility, portability, acceptability, limited supply, and uniformity. Additionally, money needs to serve as a store of value, a unit of account, and as a medium of exchange.

Fiat currencies do not have a limited supply and are therefore not a store of value (i.e., inflation constantly lowers the value of fiat currencies). The main reason that fiat currencies are still used as a medium of exchange is for the exact reason you mentioned: governments mandate their usage to pay taxes.

As an example, gold and silver have been used as money for 1000s of years because they meet all of those requirements.

Why does money need to be managed and controlled?

Real money inherently has a limited supply, so there is no need for it to be managed or controlled; the market does that on its own. However, the fiat currencies that are used by central banks around the world are not real money. The arrogance of central banks thinking they can manage and control the economic interactions of millions of people in a country is what leads to these great depressions and recessions.

If you just want to make a simple Windows Forms application, I'd just use .NET (VB or C#). If you don't have Visual Studio, you can download the Express version for free.

I'll probably get a bunch of down votes for saying this, but anyway...

I suspect that is has a lot to do with the varying IQ distributions between the genders. Females tend to be closer to the mean, whereas males have wider variance. If you are of average intelligence, calculus just won't make sense to you and that will end your STEM education right there. There are just more males with above average intelligence than there are females, so naturally more males will "survive" calculus to continue in STEM fields. On the other hand, there are more males with below average intelligence than females, which is one reason why most criminals are males.

At the end, the article says: "If dieting doesn’t work, what should we do instead? I recommend mindful eating — paying attention to signals of hunger and fullness, without judgment, to relearn how to eat only as much as the brain’s weight-regulation system commands."

That means changing your diet... i.e., dieting...

They aren't even talking about Capitalism. They're talking about Cronyism.

We don't need unions for that (and I certainly don't want unions either).

I work as an R&D manager/software architect and I simply don't work more than 40hrs per week. It just takes some self discipline and efficiency. My CEO doesn't argue with me about it because I do my job and I do it well.

However, if your employer expects you to work more hours than you get paid for, find a different employer who actually respects your time.

It doesn't have an 'online' side... which is one of the main points. Why does a word processor need to be online?

I'm not a car connoisseur like the guys in the article, but I appreciate beautiful cars. I'm an 'old' Millennial though... I drive a 2011 Synergy Green Camaro 2SS. I got my license as soon as I turned 16. I've always lived in smaller towns/cities though, so public transportation is not a very useful thing and having a car is still very important. I just like the freedom it provides though as well. I don't fit the 'Millennial' mold though in lots of other ways, so I'm probably just an outlier.

It's cool to see this kind of stuff. I used simulated annealing for my thesis on cellular network optimization back in college. Haven't used any algorithms like this since then, but they have their uses.

Exactly. I was surprised by Youtube yesterday when it recommended some videos related to some Google searches I had just made... Creeped me out a bit.

LTE has handover capabilities with CDMA, EvDO, GSM, and UMTS. The handovers are simpler for GSM and UMTS though since LTE is also a 3GPP standard.

If you're riding your bike on the road, I think you need to follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, get off the road.

I've seen way too many cases where cyclists make the roads more dangerous for everyone.

I only have two: Brighthouse (basically TimeWarner) or AT&T Uverse. In the US, most broadband companies are issued local monopolies or duopolies on service, so there's little or no competition.

Mobile carriers, at least here in the US, are extremely limited with backhaul. They can support high burst speeds, but they can't handle high traffic loads. That's one of the reasons why the data caps are so low on mobile (e.g., 5GBs) vs broadband (e.g., 500GBs). Otherwise, yes, a lot of people would ditch their cable/DSL and just use a mobile datacard/modem.

Bitcoin does not meet the requirements for being money (neither does the US dollar or Euro or Yuan, etc). It definitely has the potential to change the future of currencies and banking though.

Like you, I hardly ever maximize windows. I have Win8.1 on my work laptop and the only reason I didn't reformat it is because of StartIsBack. With StartIsBack, I basically get all the benefits of Win8 with very few of the drawbacks.

Let's just discourage people from earning a living even more....

The first thing I did after getting Windows 8/8.1 on my new laptop was to install StartIsBack and disable all the Metro/Modern UI stuff. I find it very annoying (especially in a non-touch environment).

I'm fine with Mozilla focusing on Firefox for Desktop and Android. I'm a big user of both.