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1. "But to break the 99th percentile - I think that was $342K/year for 99.5th percentile of single filers - you need to take on some risk. Like ... taking on high-visibility, high-impact projects that may fail - often at the cost of your regular duties - within your day job."

This is the OP.

2. Taking a bad important medical decision will have bad financial consequences - lower reputation, not so good references, patient complains leading to big losses of time - lower income in the future. Also there's stuff like which team do you join, what new technical skills do you get, which part of the world you work in. You take a lot of risk, you can expect higher rewards on success.

Really? How about the risk, that one won't be able to complete his degree, after investing a lot of money and time? Or that he'll make a mistake, which will get him blacklisted from good jobs.

One knows all the risks involved in his job, and few in other's jobs.

If you don't know much about a given job it looks low risk. But a successful doctor, etc. have taken many risky decisions, with not enough information.

Do you think mid-level doctors, lawyers, bankers don't take risks on their job?

>> mitigate their risk because of familial support mechanisms

Or society support mechanisms - many ppl in say Scandinavia use the two or more years of high unemployment benefits to start a business risk-free. Actually in Norway, to stimulate entrepreneurship, they would pay those benefits for the 1st six month of new company operation (to the owner).

What is the reason Verizon has better coverage than AT&T? More cell units, better range of CDMA vs. GSM or something else?

Tor has cover traffic.

>>As private industry and a world society I hope we can take care of this ourselves before it gets so out of control Congress tries to figure out how to do it and we end up with some horrible mess of a “National ID and Digital Identity Act” that looks at it only from the perspective of the USA and makes it very difficult for non-US citizens to do anything online (as most of the major Internet properties are US based) creating a whole new barrier for 3rd world citizens to overcome.

Major internet properties are international - Facebook, Paypal, Skype, Google, Microsoft's, Groupon, etc. Most countries have the technical talent to create clones of successful US startups. The problem is local governments will be able to control those local forums and social networks. So killing online freedom in US will kill it worldwide.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Science,science,R...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Freedom,+freedom,...

In the 50s, 60s, 70s children have dreamed of becoming astronauts, programmers, engineers, scientists. But nowadays the cool jobs are in sports, TV, finance.

I'd bet around 1776 the majority of ppl in the colonies were willing to take care of themselves. Today the power of federal government cannot be ignored by anyone, so it's part of every big problem/solution.

IMHO we'll see some global changes in the next years. The best place to live would be the one, where your chances of survival are the highest.

It was an extremely efficient monolith, while Bill Gates was managing everything. But than he concentrated on the Sun anti-monopoly suit and MS become a regular stupid corp.

That's pretty obvious. Just in a few month government and every established corp will require those for it's online services. Online banking, paypal&co, all app stores, gaming, taxes, healtcare, insurance ...

How about because ppl prefer religion over science. And security over freedom. Federal government getting more corrupt and more powerful with each year.

It may be hitting another bottleneck, all cores share the same L3 cache, memory lane, disk, etc.

They are describing an UTF8 feature - nothing invalid or broken about it.

Desktop Mac on ARM today?

Well 1st IMHO you can say you believe the version of history you've been thought in school (you didn't believe before there is any history?). Obviously there are different official versions in differ countries. For example according to US schoolbooks US was the primary reason Germany&Co lost WW2, but not so in Russian schoolbooks.

2nd I don't see how you've checked any data. Say you see word 'terror' is mentioned many times after 2001. What if most of the books say 9/11 was an inside job and there were no terrorist? The fact that the word 'terror' is used often in books doesn't mean there was actual terror going on.

Nonsense. So hunter-gatherers didn't understand the impact of sharper stone knifes. And ALL technology prior to 20th century was an accident. Nobody could see the impact of an iron sword. And people in 19th century western Europe didn't understand that say Opium wars were won through better technology.

>> I believe history now!

This statement makes so little sense ...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=google,microsoft,...

Ppl began to understand the impact of technology in 1918? What have you been smoking? ;)