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Comment Controlling for Age (Score 1) 158

In 2009, the median age at first marriage was 26 for women and 28 for men. Any job which requires significant education will have a higher average age than the general population, which probably explains the difference in marriage rates. This looks to be a simple average over job categories, which didn't account for that.

Comment Re:Gender neutral? (Score 1) 462

Other languages even have gender identifying second person pronouns and gender identifying plural pronouns.

English is perhaps the most gender neutral language currently in use.

It looks like somebody who knows a little bit about a few European languages is over-generalizing. There's no grammatical gender in Japanese or Chinese. IIRC Japanese didn't even have gender-specific pronouns until kanojo was invented as a way to translate "she" from European languages. Mandarin has three pronouns for he, she and it, but they're pronounced the same way and only differ in writing.

Comment Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... (Score 1) 1038

That does sound like a good technique, if you can call it good. I'm really only opposed to the characteristic European smugness regarding the policy. Governments do terrible, monstrous things to their own citizens that make most capital crimes seem like jaywalking. Limiting their power to kill is reasonable.

A world where no one kills anyone else seems a lot better to me, and we'd all be better served focusing on bringing that about than arguing about how to kill or not kill a bunch of weirdos who are going to be safely imprisoned until they die.

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Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point 244

Bennett Haselton writes "Google created controversy by announcing that Google+ users will now be able to send email to Gmail users even without having those Gmail users' email addresses. I think this debate misses the point, because it's unlikely to create a deluge of unsolicited email to Gmail users, as long as Google can throttle outgoing messages from Google+ users and terminate abusive accounts. The real controversy should be over the fact that Google+ users can search a public database of the names of all Gmail users in the first place. And limiting the ability of Google+ users to write to those Gmail accounts, won't do anything to address that." Read below to see what Bennett has to say.

Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1) 203

Converting Renminbi to foreign currencies is a big one. There's a hard limit on the amount of RMB that can be exchanged for foreign currency per person per year, enforced by the Chinese government. Much of the European usage was supposed to be in the same vein.

Of course, you can feel free to dismiss them as unimportant if they're not important to you.

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