IT may be a bit different, but in mechanical/aerospace engineering that isn't the case at all. I think everyone in my aero program had an offer before they graduated (though some decided to got to graduate school). It was just that there were only three women that graduated with me and about 26 other guys. The graduation rates have improved slightly in the last 8 years, but roughly 1/3 of our new hires have been female. Now it may be a statistical anomaly, but I think it still shows that any bias is likely in favor of women.

Just to be clear though, I have not seen any intentional bias for or against any category of people. Any discrimination is minor and due to the subconscious evaluation that everyone applies when meeting new people.

Here's my anecdote to counter yours. From what I've seen, women have a huge advantage in an engineering interview. So much so that as long as she meets the basic qualifications, she's nearly always hired.

Yes, but why would Google target users who don't use much data? Don't they want you to be constantly connected and not worry about how much data you're using? At least that was the message for Google fiber.

This plan is reasonable for calling and texts, but the data prices are way too high.

If I were to switch to this plan I'd be paying 4x as much per month than I am currently (@30GB/mo T-mobile unlimited everything = $80, Google fi = $320). The wifi hotspot thing wouldn't help much either since I don't spend much time in range of any publicly accessible networks.

Yeah, I meant specifically PCIe mass storage support in consumer grade BIOS and OSs. If you know what you're doing (and have a MB that doesn't lock out most of chip set features), it isn't terribly difficult to set up. It's just that it's nowhere near as brain dead simple as a booting from a standard SATA drive.

I watched it and generally agree, but I'd still rank it significantly above average. "meh" is far more positive than what I could say for most current traditional TV shows.

Booting from PCIe is not well supported at this point and that may be interfering with the boot times. As for the game loading benchmark results, these drives are usually used for high speed working file space in servers/workstations (e.g. latency critical databases, video editing, scientific computing). If you aren't trying to solve an I/O bottleneck problem for a specific application, PCIe SSDs probably aren't what you're looking for. And even if you are, you have to know exactly what type of I/O is critical for your application because the different models target different needs (various combinations of IOPS, sequential speeds, read/write balance, write endurance).

Can you really ban someone from a federal district? What about a state?

I agree in theory, but in practice nearly all of my programs end up being entirely non-functional.

Obsolete for what purpose? Even the cheapest mechanical watches can keep time well enough for regular use (within a few seconds per day). It's not like I plan to do manual GPS calcs with it. I just want something accurate enough to be sure I get to meetings at about the right time.

Besides, there's an inherent advantage to mechanical watches. They don't need batteries.

Okay I'll accept that, but then there's a subject/object mismatch between the sentence formation and the logical interpretation except in very limited circumstances.

The only valid use I see for comprise is when an entity can act to form components that aren't necessary for its existence. e.g. "The state comprises eight counties."

Oh good, I should be safe on that one. I use "condiment" in place of both of those.

Since you seem to have an opinion on the subject, I have a separate issue with the usage of comprise. Why is it that "The band comprised a guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer" is the preferred form over "A guitarist, bassist and drummer comprise the band"? It seems to me that subject and object are backward in the first. It makes more sense that the components are collectively acting to form the whole rather than the whole (which does not exist before the action) acting to compose itself of the components.

I wasn't really arguing against your point. Rather, I was just pointing out that the comparison on the country level isn't really a fair one. You'd likely get much different, and in my opinion more informative, results if you broke out each state in the US separately.

Comparing the connectivity of the top 50 cities by population would be interesting as well.

I think there's more going on here than just European "socialism" vs. American "capitalism". Demographics, for instance, are wildly different for the US.

Average population and population density for countries 1-15: 34 million and 193/km^2
United States population and population density: 316 million and 34/km^2