Just post in the damn thread already. How do people not know this?

What do you mean "lately"? It's always been shit. It's always been going downhill. The rot set in the day they introduced moderation. Or Katz. Or when it stopped being chips & dips.

Unemotional & rational, hah. Never seen such a bunch of overprivileged whiners with zero sense of proportion as this place.

Actually, historically default is quite common and not particularly harmful in the long term. Yes, over the near term it causes horrendous disruption but I have to say if I were Greece, having achieved a primary surplus I would be thinking very carefully about the medium to long term benefits of defaulting.

It doesn't matter how many times this gets repeated, but never mind, I'll say it again: national economics are not like your personal budget and bank account.

Presumably if it works on a narrow frequency band it only has to listen on that frequency, so extraneous noise won't be an issue. And I imagine they will have remembered to include error correction.

You're basically saying that anything you don't agree with can't be be studied, which is self-evidently bullshit. There is a massive literature on minimum wage effects which you're welcome to pick holes in. You can't just ignore it, though.

As for stickiness, your argument seems to be that residual stickiness is worse than the harm inflicted by widespread low pay, which seems to be overdoing it somewhat.

There are good arguments that wages, especially at the lower bound, are sticky and don't reflect a "true" market rate. The theoretical models are complex, but the evidence is simple: almost everywhere the minimum wages are imposed or increased, the predicted negative consequences invariably fail to materialise.

And you're assuming in turn everyone shares your motivations. I have bad news.

The difference is that #killallmen is a (dark) joke, and the SCUM manifesto is a raving from the lunatic fringe. Whereas the womanbeating subreddit has 34k subscribers. But as soon as feminism shows any hints of diversity of view, or of not being cuddly and friendly, it's seen as grounds to attack it.

The men's rights crowd do have some valid arguments but frankly they could be a lot better presented and they could be a lot more careful about the company they keep.

The thing that you're missing is that employers only care what school you got into, not what you did once you got there. As long as you graduated, you learned enough, and the school's admissions procedure forms a handy part of the firm's recruitment process. The farmvillers are the rational ones, not you.

In addition, murder is the crime that has the lowest re-offending rate (where we count *any* crime) after release. Most murderers kill for very specific reasons under great stress and regret it later. Indeed, you could take that argument to its conclusion and say that most murderers should simply be released once found guilty.

Wrong country, but never mind. You seem awfully bent out of shape about it though.

Somebody's still bitter about not getting in, huh?

Hmm. I'm not sure that R is useful unless you have the domain knowledge. People using R want to solve statistical or numerical problems, and most of the skill is in the problem domain and then programming appropriately. Just knowing R syntax and object model is not enough to be useful in the the typical R user environment, I think.

You need to Google more.