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lol, for the few comments that did this, that's most likely just standard internet posting. The "location [X] is in the title, thus I'll make a comment about location [X]" is particularly common. With little relation to the substance or intentions of previous comments.

Though, I admit I'm not sure if this post is being tongue-in-cheek, since it was made by a completely new account. Thus demonstrating in itself another way that online discussions can be influenced.

Holy shit is that reblog of a blog post facetious. Have you looked at the original research cited?

Curiously enough, that blog post doesn't bother to post the charts of the immensely high market income gap and consumption gap between men and women in New Zealand. Those wholely explain the tax gap, because well, men are earning and spending much more, 50%-75% more for most cohorts.

As for the income support gap, the authors themselves explain that the gov income support is for poorer women who need the money to supplement their own or their spouses' incomes, especially during child-rearing years.

You seem to be correctly noticing some symptoms, but you're misdiagnosing all the problems at hand.

This was a good comment, and I'm sad that no one was able to chime in. =/

It's still a serious problem, but it seems like the $1 trillion outflow number is the authors' projection for the next year, based on their estimate of accelerating Q2 outflows.

Regarding the past year, the article simply says that "the cumulative capital outflow over the past five quarters [is] $520bn."

While the above parent tree of comments is mostly correct, I can't help but feel like the commenters are just regurgitating sound-bite memes. I wish there were less of an echo chamber around here.

Tangential comment:

News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable.

That's actually what frustrates me most about this article. For people who do plan to continue following news (likely including most readers of the article), the article isn't very actionable.

I would love to see a few smart people work together, look through the author's points, and outline a few ways to mitigate the legitimate problems summarized in each point. The article might be useful for other people who haven't considered these points before, but in its current state of merely spreading awareness, it's not very useful for me.

I remember from intro bio that there is a category of plants (ones using the CAM metabolism pathway) that close their stomata (openings in the leaves) during the day to save water. So all the oxygen release and CO2 intake occurs at night, and photosynthesis still occurs during the day.

I'm guessing that the plants noted in this article are in that or a similar category; Wikipedia/Googling would provide a lot more info. Cheers!

Anyone have statistics for admittance/denials for different categories of travelers?

I keep seeing these anecdotes get lots of attention on Hacker News, and all the comments just respond with more horror story anecdotes. But I worry there might be an echo chamber effect, where people who like to comment on articles of this topic are also the people who are already accustomed to, or feel confirmation bias satisfaction at, hearing about these kinds of horror anecdotes.

It's definitely a terrible problem; I'm just wondering if Hacker News commenters are overstating the prevalence of the problem.

...that's irrelevant to what he was saying.

Just curious: which aspects of this elementary math education would you say could be taught by automated high-quality means, such as the combination of interactive games and questions that many people are working on right now? I assume that video lectures would not be effective at that age.

http://books.google.com/books?id=IU7U7hDpr5cC&lpg=PR7...

I highly recommend this excerpt as food for thought, bottom of page 4 - page 5:

"Political candidates' campaign discourse provides more information about issues than print or electronic news media. There are several explanation for this finding. First, news reporting tends to concentrate on the 'horse race' aspects of the campaign: Who is ahead in the polls? Who is running the campaign? Which states are being contested by the campaigns? Will the candidates attack one another? Who will be included in the presidential debates? The answers to these questions may be news, but they simply do not help voters decide which candidate should be elected president...

From January through October of 1980, CBS and UPI devoted 65 percent of their coverage to the horse race, 26 percent to issues, and 10 percent to candidates...

A second reason why voters cannot rely on the news media for policy information is that campaign news is only one story among many. The network news, for example, is a half hour long, but subtracting commercials, stories on non-campaign topics, and horse-race coverage leaves little time to explain the candidates' opposing views on policy questions. Particularly in the latter phases of a campaign, political ads, presidential debates, and other message forms provide more issue information to viewers than the news media...

To make matters worse, there may be a trend toward less and less coverage. The length of a typical political news story decreased by about 20 percent and the number of political news stories dropped by 20 percent from 1968 to 1988...average nightly news coverage of the campaign in 1996 was 12.3 minutes, down from 24.6 minutes in 1992...Furthermore, the news media have a tendency to offer short sound bites from candidates instead of thoughtful and extended consideration of issues...in 1968, the average quotation from candidates in the news was 43 seconds long. After 20 years, candidate quotations had shrunk to a mere 9 seconds...this figure had dropped to 8.2 seconds in 1996."