I've got a couple places where I would really like some smart bulbs but it is just under the threshold that the price isn't worth the convenience.

I found my parents' praise over my intelligence just pointless. I haven't continued the tradition with my children. Not that I don't praise them, just that I don't go out of my way to praise them over intelligence when it is irrelevant. My oldest is in school and more practical praise doesn't seem to give him any more interest in school tasks than I had.

The motivation behind this paper was probably the intuition that language choice greatly influences KISS. But frankly, I've never had a real project where language choice wasn't driven by external forces.

I work in a building secured with magnetic doors. The reasoning behind default open is that if an emergency happens and the power system fails there is a higher liability for the doors to fail closed and rescuers be unable to reach victims than for the doors to fail open and someone break in.

People are paid to serve on juries without any question of partiality. I personally don't mind using my free time to vote, but I can see the problem with forcing low income voters to use unpaid leave to vote. If I've got to choose between the rent and voting, then it makes my choice pretty clear. Higher income voters are going to get more flexibility to vote and that will probably swing things to the Republicans to an extent.

We will see what you have to say about it when Ben Franklin brings out his cannons...

Don't worry. Once all the networks have viable streaming avenues on their own, then they will renegotiate their contracts in time to price in your commercial free access.

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For all the talk about the differences in socialization, I know just as many introverted women as I do men. So the question for me is the problem with associating computing careers with being non-social or is the problem telling women they are broken if they aren't social.

Lucky. You've only had to deal with the eureka moments when they discover something old. The trouble comes when they've wasted a week on a problem that a 2nd year CS student would know from sight or worse they've put it in the code and now someone has to find their race condition.

I'm not finding very good data but it looks like California is possibly responsible for as much as half of the drop in prison population assuming the numbers that I'm finding are actually using the same definition for prison.

Hasn't California been under a federal order to reduce its prison population because the overcrowding situation was considered at a level to be cruel and unusual?

Apart from the other excellent reasons. It is optional and beneficial so it will cost money. That means you are going to have some that will participate and some that won't and that will at least loosely be tied to existing intelligence between the couple. You aren't going to have zero dumb people after this. You will have a generally dumb group maintaining their birth rates. Some super rich folks who will have more intelligent kids at the same rate. Some middle income folks who will have fewer kids who are more intelligent.

Where do you live/work that intelligence is more important than social skills for success in professional and personal endevours? I'd like to be there.

My brother worked construction with a guy who used pink tools because pink tools won't walk off with the other guys on the crew. Other than that, what difference does handle color make?