Or maybe it's because (in the case of imputed) we need to quantify the value of someone owning their home and living in it. Consider that if everyone owned a home, but rented it to someone else (and rented a home for themselves with the proceeds) , you would have the exact same situation as if everyone just lived in their own home. Except that without imputed value the latter would contribute nothing to GDP, while the former would contribute massively.

To remove the (artificial) fluctuations from people switching from ownership to renting, we just calculate it as if everyone was renting.

In the end all that really matters is that you calculate GDP consistently from year to year - and including hedonic and imputed values makes our measurements more consistent. All that matters is the trend.

...because there are none of those in Greece? Not to mention, 12% is *still* less than half of Greece.

You can't be serious. Greece's debt to gdp ratio is 175% - the USA's is 100%. USA unemployment is 5.5%, Greece's unemployment is 26%. TWENTY SIX PERCENT.

The USA has some economic issues, sure, but comparing them to Greece is just idiotic. Extremely idiotic.

From TFA:

Say what you want about fear-mongering, that's a pretty crazy statistic. Sounds like I should invest in some Korean laser correction company.

Only if there are no other deliveries to be made anywhere near you.

I would assume you could see search results but can't open any of the links... which would be incredibly frustrating.

In some sense, yes, that is exactly the problem with Big Data. Many people expect it to be some panacea, when it is merely a tool. A tool that is difficult to use effectively.

You're missing the point of the analysis (as is this Housman fellow). Which browser is the better choice is irrelevant. The analysis shows that better employees are currently more likely to use Chrome or Firefox. Whether or not Firefox/Chrome are better doesn't matter, all that matters is that, on average, better people use them (according to their measures).

I fail to see how trucker is a "solid blue-collar job" while "gas station refueler" is somehow an "entry-level service type job". They're both pretty typical blue collar jobs.

I would say adding a full-service attendant at every truck stop gas station is probably the least complicated and easiest-to-implement part of an automated nation-wide self-driving truck shipping system. You're really focusing on the simplest part of the problem.

I don't believe all telephone conversations and text messages are recorded... but I could be wrong...

Are you joking? Think about how heavily scrutinized her personal emails would be. Anyone running against her could take comments completely out of context and absolutely destroy her in attack ads.

This actually isn't that unlikely. Many politicians don't use email at all for government business, exactly for this reason (it all gets preserved).

Honestly, this preserving all emails is rather stupid to begin with. We don't preserve other communication media completely, I see no reason why email should somehow be special. It just forces politicians to use private accounts or not use email at all.

Not really. If she sent them to someone else's government email address, then they would still be preserved. Of course, if she sent an email to someones private email address then that would be lost... but I don't think you would have access to that email anyway, as it would just be an email between two private email accounts.

White/grey have nearly equal levels of R,G,B. This color clearly has a higher intensity in the blue channel.

Yes, so his "simple" solution was to have the company literally double their workforce. I'm sure it's just *so* easy to find that many reliable people with commercial drivers licences.