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>>Waiting for a 2+ year battery life which is what I expect of my watches. I> assume you are joking? A "dumb" watch battery life can't be compared to a smart watch. It appearently can, this one claims 8 months: http://www.withings.com/us/wit...

The situation in cuba only happened because of the USA. The USSR had to smuggle in nukes to use against the USA because the USA had positioned nukes in Turkey, targeting Moskow. Doing the embargo against cuba was a move driven by domestic politics; it ignored cause and effect.

The problem when researching the correlation between parent-child relationship and daycare, as always in psychology and education, is the confounding variable of the parental socio-economic background. If you don't control for that at all, you'll get the result that the earlier children start to visit daycare, the more likely they'll show developmental problems. That's because poor families are more likely to have single parents, stressed out parents (multiple jobs, precarious economic situation etc.), and so on. These factors hinder optimal development. The better a study is at controlling for that factor, e.g. by making sure the distribution of working class and middle class families stays the same in both the early daycare group and the late daycare group, the less visible this correlation becomes.
Sometimes politics create the best test cases for questions like this one: The formerly divided parts of Germany proofed great for this: Before the fall of the Iron courtain, Western Germany mostly held the traditional view of the single male earner and the stay-at-home mom, where only some working class children, out of economic necessity, got into daycare before they were three years old. Contrast that to East Germany, where it was quite usual that to give the children into daycare when they were 6 weeks old (!) - most if not all women were fully employed in the GDR.
Of course this has been studied quite intensly after the fall of the Wall. The results: No real difference in parent-child relationship between East and West German children.

A question is, by the very definition of science, never fully resolvable. That right there is the difference to religious dogma.

As an educationalist I have to mention that this is simply untrue. The quality of the child-parent relationship doesn't correlate with daycare. At all. That relationship is mainly synonymous with a strong sense of trust (or successfull bonding, the e.g. the attachment theory by Bowlby, if you want to read more).

Sure: China. Practically everyone on the top for the last 5 decades was a STEM person.

But the Mate Desktop, a Gnome 2 fork, exists, so GP seems to be right: If it's popular enough, it will live on.

The point about science is the process, not the result. There may be correct content in the bible, but that does not make it scientific.

Meanwhile, they let you rot in prison. Thats what key disclosure laws are about.

Thanks for following up! You had a small mixup there, 28 million were all pregnancies, including planned ones, leaving only 12.25 unplanned pregnanies, of which 3.3 occur in the U.S, which is a bit above average, given 1.2 billion people in developed nations.

The absolute numbers are misleading, though, as pregnancies are not evenly distributed among the countries. More relevant the relative amount of unplanned pregnancies among all pregnancies among a given country. There, the U.S. has 49% - 51% ([1],[2]) unplanned pregnancies, France has 33% [1] and Britain has 16% [1].

The numbers get even more drastic if you look at teenagers only. There, the US has 5 times as much unplanned pregnancies (relative to overall population) as Germany [3].

[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
[2] = http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs...
[3] = http://www.profamilia.de/filea...

Thats a problem of the bad sex ed in the US, not a problem of birth control. No other developed country has unplanned pregnancy rates that high.

Quite the opposite, the 50% of the population has no problem to "fit into a world where the average person really is dumber than you."

The problem is not the intelligence of the kid, but the fact he thinks he's gifted. If you achieve good grades in school without effort and your parents constantly tell you you're gifted, you never really learn the correlation between effort and achievement. Then, suddenly, the real world kicks in. Other young adults, not gifted but learning none the less, catched up. Now they get the interesting jobs.

If you have contact to a gifted child, it's important to give him/her appropriate input. Put the focus on productive output, on effort (e.g. for a kid with math skills: Present interesting engineering problems, perhaps a bridge has to be built over a creek or something similar). On helping others and on developing the ability to communicate effectively with non-gifted kids (or adults).

The difference is liquidity. Bitcoins market depth is tiny. A truck full of Euros (about the same market value as the bitcoins) sold at market rate wouldn't be noticable on the charts. 30k of bitcoins sold at market rate would absolutely crush the market.

An "economist" like in the article is a macro economist while your investing neighbor most probably is a micro economist. Same field, different point of view. A macro economist does stuff like predicting the housing bubble, but may suck mightily as a CEO of a company (and vice versa for the micro economist).