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Since 1981 the real wages have risen with 65 % in Norway, i.e. people can buy 65 % more stuff now than back in 1981. However, if the growth in buying power instead of being used to fulfill materialistic 'wants' was translated into leisure time, that would mean three day working weeks. That put things in perspective, albeit might be considered to be a fallacy since the growth would probably not be as great if people did not increase their consumption since 1981.

I guess the reason why companies with a high application volume (like Google) tend to be biased towards "top" school and using your GPA as a selection criteria, is that it is so much easier to "cut the pile in half" and still have a decent number of good candidates, only the average talent might be higher. It reduces the overhead in the HR department.

That means a lot of smart people never get the opportunity to try out for the interview. In my opinion, you have to market yourself better and differently if you want to increase the odds of getting to the interview, where you get a chance to prove yourself beyond what is on paper.

So... what your saying is that my master thesis won't write itself by some random fluctuations after all? I might have to alter my strategy.

I completely agree, especially since Norway has large reserves of the stuff. One challenge though, is that uranium is also abundantly available and still much cheaper to mine than thorium. Another challenge is that it is not the fuel which drives the cost, as in conventional power plants; it is the capital cost concerned with building the reactors themselves. Therefore, a thorium-fueled reactor has to be considerably cheaper to build than a uranium-fueled reactor and it is easy to pose the question if this will ever be true. There has to be some serious subsidizing to incentivize commercial development, adaption and investment.

With 2 billion drawings, Omgpop possesses a valuable source of information. It would be interesting to see how different people illustrate equal words differently or equally in their illustrations. This could contribute to e.g. best practices when communicating with graphics or the like.

In my opinion, hardware buttons should be limited to only non-critical operations or operations with limited usage frequency (which may be an argument to why the button may be unnecessary in the first place).

A button such as the back-button on the android, is used to navigate in almost all applications. With the amount of "load cycles" the back-button experiences, it is bound to either fail or start operating inadequately [1]. If or when this happens, the phone becomes rather unusable as it is nearly impossible to navigate in applications that do not have any built in user interface options to perform the same action.

[1] I do not hold evidence for this to be true in general and my hypothesis is only backed by personal experience and the notion of failure rate in a load frequency perspective.

This would have to be constrained to consumers experienced with flying RC planes. Imagine the number of planes crashing due to the incompetency of the operator if anyone could rent an RC plane over the internet.

However, I really like the idea. It would be like google street view, only you are the driver -- in the sky.

I do not agree that it is completely irrelevant when including the possibilities of life at a higher intellectual level. It would still put religion in a difficult position; if God created humans, he must have created aliens. At what intellectual level would you set the barrier? Must it demonstrate empathy? Love? And who would decide? What gives a human the right, as it clearly is the guy in the sky that is the gatekeeper.

The easiest way to bootstrap is enlisting for a couple of courses at uni. That way, you get US $16,600 in financial support from the government per year. If you pass the exams, half of that is converted in to a grant, whereas the rest is interest free loans (as long as you study).

For entrepreneurs coming from college, this is often the primary source of survival money in the earliest stages.

HBR Ideacast usually cover some interesting themes. BBC also have several good programs. Really worth checking them out!

Science in Action

Documentaries

Discovery

What would be very effective and what they really should do is add and/or remove crucial details in his recipe on how to make fertilizer bombs. Or maybe the one about the body armor. Or maybe render the tips on how to contact criminals in order to acquire guns into insults that may get them killed in the process.

Who would not like the idea of these lone wolfs blowing themselfs to kingdom come in a deserted location. I, as a Norwegian, surely do.