Comment: Re:The PhD is not an end-point (Score 1) 228
In other words, turn around and run far far far away never to look back.
Comment: Re:Girls (Score 1) 228
or should be.
Comment: Re:The obvious answer (Score 1) 626
Gold? Seriously? Are you one of THOSE people? We have a fiat currency system. Gold has nothing to do with anything. There is no limit to the amount of money the U.S. can mint or print, but the practical limits are given by inflation and deflation.
Comment: Re:Doubt that'll happen (Score 1) 307
Anonymous freedom of speech fliers.
Comment: Re:First (Score -1, Offtopic) 76
Better watch out for my Godzilla blasta Slimey!
Comment: Re:I've never understood... (Score 3, Insightful) 117
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buswolley
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Attached to: Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos
I should start a twitter for intellects, and require > 140 characters to post.
Comment: Re:Their conclusion, my conclusion. (Score 1) 300
im sure they did their science right. The problem with this study is selection. Presumably women must fight more to get into academia, and to be considered serious. Thus the women frauds are weeded out earlier than men.
Comment: Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 453
Complexity theory obviously. Anyway, I also think that the problem with these kind of markets is that effort to find the best deal has reduced economic payoff. Thus, it reduces the number of footholds small up-and-coming enterprises can use their ingenuity to climb faster than the competition. Also, the lack of market inefficiencies pushes consolidation to the biggest (i.e. Amazon). Also, it makes shopping boring. Seriously.
Comment: Re:Can't America get its acts together ? (Score 1) 1059
Oh Please. The only constraint on government spending is inflation. 'Debt' can always be repaid by fiat currency creation. If this notion was understood better generally, the debate would not be about 'debt' and having enough money to pay for this or that, but would be about whether spending that much would undermine the value of the dollar or not.
+ - What Experiment Would YOU Run on a Single Hamster?
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buswolley
buswolley writes "As I was typing away on a research proposal last night, my daughter's hamster was busy turning his very squeaky hamster wheel. To make the incessant squeak more tolerable I posed a thought exercise to myself, which I now Ask Slashdot:
What clever experiment could you conduct on a single hamster that will teach you something about your field of research that you didn't know before.
For extra achievement points, let’s treat Ham-the-Case-Study-Sam neighborly."
What clever experiment could you conduct on a single hamster that will teach you something about your field of research that you didn't know before.
For extra achievement points, let’s treat Ham-the-Case-Study-Sam neighborly."
+ - 100 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy
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The Bad Astronomer writes "A new study finds that there may be 100 billion alien planets in the Milky Way alone, with 17 billion of them the size of Earth. Announcements like this have been made before, but this new research is more robust than previous studies, using data from the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft over a longer period and analyzing it in a more statistically solid way. They also found that smaller planets are not as picky about their host stars, with terrestrial planets forming around stars like the Sun or as small as tiny, cool red dwarfs with equal ease."
Comment: Re:What? (Score 2) 295
hmm is Mint the most popular Linux Desktop distro? I've heard about Mint, and that it was a response to Unity. Still I hadn't kept tabs on it lately, and didn't know whether it had fully capitalized on the Unity debacle. Also, I'm not shopping for Linux systems lately since I've been using NeuroDebian and centOS exclusively in my fMRI analyses.
Comment: Re:What? (Score 1) 295
well for one thing it moves to MATE 1.4 and Cinnamon 1.6 . No I have no idea what those do.
Comment: Re:names are so cool, not! (Score -1, Troll) 295
you are a jackass
Comment: Re:Vote (Score 1) 707
Its not that funny. regulations have to be enforced by agencies with enough resources to do its job. Most regulatory agencies are very underfunded. Can't cut their budgets and then harp on their ineffectiveness to support further cuts.