GS would love to hire this guy.

When you correct those stats for socioeconomic status, they're nowhere near the 3x rate. I need to try to find some genuinely meaningful citations for this, but when you're poor, you're much more likely to have a negative interaction with police. And in the USA, if you're black, you're much more likely to be poor. So whether that 3x is more an indicator of cop racism or the effects of poverty isn't totally clear (it's probably a combination).

The poor are amongst themselves, and teacher unions insist on a virtual monopoly on students and laws require schools to attempt to teach the most difficult pre-incarcerated cases. Just let these schools expel the bad kids and teach those who aren't 100% opposed to bettering themselves through education.

Exactly. I call myself a software engineer because in addition to writing code, I establish environments, tools, and processes to support the development and delivery of software from requirements to production. That means everything from the source control system and branching methodology to the unit testing and deployment systems, and a hundred other incidentals. Anybody can code. Engineers apply known technique and craft to the development process to deliver quality results.

Oh I needed that laugh. A great unit of measure, as well.

Steve Jobs was faced with an emotionally and physically traumatizing ordeal. This lady's a liar. There's no comparison, and you're picking on a cancer victim for being scared. That's less morally offensive than convincing them not to get good treatment, but it's still a crappy thing to do.

No, we can't, not fully. Drug addicts and ignorant folk who don't finish their antibiotic course because they "feel better" on day 6 of 10 are part (yes, part, not all) of the reason we have resistant bacteria.

Not really, no. My friend's college buddy died because he ignored the "only do one trial at a time" mandate and the drugs interacted, fatally. As it turns out, people who get paid to take experimental drugs are more risk-tolerant, to the point of danger, than most people. They're not more prepared, rather more desperate for money.

Did you know that's a retelling of Plato's Cave allegory?

Pearson is one of the profitable companies that makes large amounts of money by influencing educational standards at the state and federal level to essentially require their curriculum products. Even though I know people who worked and might still work there, I'd love to see it destroyed.

I impressed the principal had the decency to apologize. He was probably a good guy, all in all, who panicked due to realizing there were things going on he could not understand or control.

I'm not saying the data shouldn't be available, just that most people won't be able to use it properly.

With the number of self-misdiagnosed "gluten sensitives" we have walking around, who aren't sick at all, I really don't think giving the average untrained person (or the bizarre hipsters who think food sensitivity is cool) interpreting data. People with access to information they don't understand, or want to use for an agenda, don't end up making good decisions with that information.

As an American, I'm often ashamed of the way we act. Then I read posts from acquaintances in Europe and the UK, and I am immediately proud to be an American again.

Today, that's Ben Affleck.

Are you saying the people who joined in the 1970s are still working there and singing the song? I can't imagine more than 3% of the workforce at HP started during the 70s. That doesn't disprove your contention that "the people who actually made HP what it was" wouldn't act this way, but it does kind of suggest that you aren't remotely in touch with the current makeup of the workforce there. Care to elaborate?