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It's the fallacy found first in the list the causes the issue:

- Calories are a lie. The model is incorrect (true) and should therefore be completely ignored/rejected (false)

- Fats are good. Nuts are healthy.

- 'Grazing' food all day is good.

Good fats are good for you and nuts are a source of such fats. For some, eating more frequent, smaller portions makes it easier to hit a reasonable caloric intake for the day. However, add in that calories are a lie and ignore the fact that nuts are calorie dense, and you get people eating 3000 kcal of nuts in a day by grazing on healthy foods.

In another thread, the mention of weighing foods for a while seems to counter this. It's just not that intuitive that a small bag of nuts can have enough calories for a meal (at least is wasn't always to me). As a child of the midwest, it took some time to deprogram my concept of healthy portions, so I can admit to falling into some version of this trap for many year, and still do on occasion.

The Yelp extortion model applied to individuals.

Also consider a license like JetBrains old "personal purchase for professional use". I've carried Resharper around with me from employer to employer as my own "hammer" resulting in multiple new enterprise licenses when other people see me use it. I imagine this is exactly that kind of software. Scratching an itch the business doesn't yet realize is there.

The idea of repository as editorial makes me really happy.

I'd offer that accessibility is a huge part of the beauty of Euler's identity. A few weeks into your average Calculus 2 class and it almost feels intuitive.

If this was framed as charging twenty bucks less for those willing to endure the hard side of the cushion, people would be proclaiming anyone sitting on soft cushions as stupid.

The "Keyword: HUMOR" at the end of the article should be a hint as well.

If I recall correctly, the lower is also the only part of the assembled weapon that requires registration.

The informal language and entertainment value of the letter seems to me to be a direct nod to the value of the Streisand effect in matters like this. The Oatmeal manages to make them look even worse in the most easily digestible format possible.

I think the quality of the current crop of polls is a greater concern than the quantity.

You really need to provide a means of at least browsing a pre-filled wishlist without supplying an email address first. You've got to earn my email address.

It just distills down to "Don't let people tell you that you can't frame with your trusty roofing hammer. Just get to work and switch tools when you must."

I agree that 'hidden' isn't exactly an accurate description, but that is a pretty good list of keywords that commonly get reinvented by less experienced C#-ers. It would be more accurately described as a list of underused idioms, but the title doesn't really detract from its value.

Reddit didn't appear out of the ether as one of those sites. They built a user base in a manner unlike everyone else.

FTFY.

No. Get the degree now while it's relatively easy. The longer you're out of the education system the harder it is to fall back into the student mindset. If you're 'not afraid of working hard', work on your startup while pursuing your degree. As an added benefit, I've got to think that your classes would be a great place to find that co-founder you're missing.

Replacing all forms of "woman" with the appropriate form of "employee" and neutering pronouns doesn't seem to change the story at all.

I always picture sacks with '$' on the side rather than suitcases, but I always have difficulty shaking the feeling that lobbying is basically a cash transaction. I constantly have to talk myself out of this. The following is a great, brief string of reasoning that helps: http://volokh.com/2010/01/24/money-and-speech-2

^Like everything else, writing a really excellent assignment is an iterative process. After two or three offerings, you finally have something your users (ie, students) really value: an assignment that teaches well.

New assignments should be just that, another iteration on the original, excellent assignment. I had a few assignments in undergrad for which even solutions to previous versions were essentially useless unless you understood the underlying principles. The professor made this quite clear from the beginning. Minor changes in input/intermediate/output structures and changing constraints on the expected solutions easily confound the copy-pasters. I think this method even enhanced the learning experience for me by highlighting early on how a subtle difference in an algorithm can make all the difference in the world.

I've always made sense of it all as follows: Science describes reality with theory. Applied science moves science into practical application. Engineering composes/commercializes applied science.

Just to continue this thought of 'avenues you could pursue which don't involve a direct application': there's always graduate school. Prove your aptitude at a school that will take you for your BS and then apply to GT for the next step.

Agreed. In the US today, we essentially have a single payer, single provider education system. There's simply no motivation for improvement on either side, leaving the kids to pay the price.

I've got to mention 'Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew' by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer here. It contains examples of both all-grain and extract recipes for every BJCP category. The breadth of styles provided and the consistent, accurate recipes make it a great reference for any level of brewer.

The next step is for a terrorist to put a bomb inside a TSA agent forming a mighty ouroboros of security-theater.

I think that you're confusing the article's mention of education or schooling with college.

The opinion I take from the article is that while the emphasis should remain on continued schooling after high school, it's important that students be made aware of schooling options outside of a traditional four year degree.

>This is ridiculous. Does anyone here really expect to attend a four-year college, or even two years at a local college, to be a plumber? Or electrician? Or computer tech? This is blatantly conflating trades with education.

Exactly the author's point: We need to stop pushing all kids into college when some of them really should be pursuing tradeschools or associates degrees focused narrowly on these middle-wage skilled jobs.

>> It is in this respect that the prevailing “college for all” philosophy is most misguided... >ARGH. This article really is saying that kids don't need to learn math, because they can work in a factory instead. They don't need to learn English, because they can swing a hammer instead. They don't need to learn history, because they can wrench on a car.

I think she's saying that kids don't need a BA in Applied Maths to work in a factory, or a BA in English Literature to be a machinist, or a BA in American History to wrench on a car.

We're failing children by using college attendance rates as a metric and then blindly pursuing that metric without consideration for the impact on those kids or the economy they'll find themselves in when that first student loan payment comes due. High school really should be putting a lot of focus on "What do you want to do when you grow up? This is what that requires." rather than "Get a degree in something, anything, and it will all work out for the best."

I'll gladly second Jon Skeet's 'C# in Depth'. The second edition is currently available through MEAP @ http://www.manning.com/skeet2/, with the print edition coming in September.

The ethical failing around gratuities is that businesses provide diminished wages to their employees knowing that you'll fill the gap with what should be a "gift or favor given without obligation". In the case of both the mortgage and the gratuity, the business is using your adherence to norms to boost their profits at your expense.

I read it to be 3.25 mi total each day and 25-30 minutes each direction making the 3.25 mi tile ~ 1 hour. That seems a reasonable pace to me.

Lenovo T410s come standard with matte, LED-backlit screens.