That's sort of the popular narrative, but it's not really a great explanation. The underlying costs of college have increased far faster than the inflation rate. There are a few reasons for this: (1) college is labor-intensive, and the cost of labor has increased faster than the inflation rate, (2) colleges have had a large run-up in the number of administrators, further increasing costs, (3) colleges have gone on an amenity-building spree, so the experience that today's students get is far nicer than what their boomer parents got.

Underlying those is the easy availability of student loans combined with having a 17-year-old student making a decision to borrow tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Colleges have discovered that 17-year-old students are perfectly happy to borrow a lot of money to buy a great college experience.

Yes, it's true that US states tend to subsidize a smaller portion of college costs than they used to. But, we've seen the price run-up both in public AND private schools. And, those private schools never had the government subsidies.

Consider what would happen if the Department of Education were to say "If your annual tuition + mandatory costs is above $X, then we won't provide student loans for students at your school"? I'm guessing you'd see a mad rush of schools to get their tuition costs down below $X. They might cancel construction of a new student union, or get rid of a number of administrators, or even cancel less popular academic programs to do so. But, they'd get there. That's the sort of belt-tightening that every business does, but US universities have largely been protected from.

I love the implication that "Oh, that's fine, that's been in our terms of service for a year and nobody's complained" makes the idea any the less ridiculous. Know why nobody complained? Because nobody reads your terms of service. Terms don't stop being ridiculous just because nobody noticed them for a while.

So it sounds like we should immediately switch to non-fossil electricity generation (25% of all CO2 emissions) with the best tool we have available - nuclear power. After we have adequate electrical supply, or at least as we're on our way to that, we should work on maximizing use of electricity in transportation and heating. While we're at it we could shave a few percentage points by converting large-scale shipping to nuclear too, and minimizing use of air for transporting non-urgent goods.

We seem to be doing it the other way around - we're maximizing building electric cars while the majority of power is produced via fossil fuels. I guess if our electric supply becomes inadequate the prices will skyrocket and individual consumption will drop, which will accomplish the goal I guess. This is easier than actually having the will to generate sustained change, because forcing individual people to do or not do something is easy when you have an armed government behind you and they are powerless and dependent.

That's not at all what people are worried about.

The "neutrality" refers to content.

The concern with abandoning net neutrality is the danger of different content being treated differently, whereby your ISP can decide that only paid services will get gigabit throughput and everything else can do with 128k... or worse, start picking and choosing whether or not to deliver content based on politics.

The car analogy would be a vehicle that drives 60mph to Walmart and to 10mph or not at all to a mom and pop shop... or one that will get you to one political rally but not another.

It is very secure. It securely transfers the contents of your messages to industry partners and government agencies.

I actually agree with you that a simple robot will not detectect contamination, and that people should be involved.

However, I am trying to leverage my extensive background in biology to figure out the reasoning behind your SOP of bleaching and "sterilizing" the fryer after a mouse jumps in.

I mean you can say you're going to drain and clean if because it's gross... But if your deep fryer oil is not sterile at 375F, I'm not sure what new kingdom of organisms you've invented.

Is this the new "follow the science" kind of SOP?

They are so busy erasing the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 12th amendments from a bill of human rights, I think they figured they should add something, and they chose this.

Actually I wish they do this, and you get stranded on your way to the ER while not being drunk. Your self righteous bullshit is so tiresome. The parent post is right - the problem is people like yourself who imagine their perfect fascist regulations having perfect effects, instead of using one ounce of braincells to see how it will go wrong the majority of the time.

As much as the current culture wants people to lie to themselves and others, what people acutely want and what makes them happy to see in a potential sexual partner has changed very little over the years, and is unlikely to change in the future.

Took a caribbean cruise in March -- the ship was half-full and I paid for the 'premium' internet, which was something like $100. Thanks (I suspect) to the limited number of people aboard, the internet worked fabulously -- I was even able to do some video calls, although the lag from bouncing off what I presume was a geosynchronous satellite was definitely noticeable.

Once upon a time, I would have absolutely been with you on getting away completely. But, that's unfortunately not the reality of my daily life -- I was happy to get by with just an hour or two of work per day.

Agreed. The cheap and cheerful Chinese cameras phone home a lot. My cameras are on their own VLAN and have no internet access. They can only stream to the recording device locally and that's it.

Just a side point.... The "Generations" are each about 15 years. So, while there's obviously some overlap, the children of Boomers are generally Millennials, and the children of Gen X are generally Gen Z. (Although it's possible to have kids at age 15, most people wait about a decade longer.)

Recognize that the Boomers were the hippies -- they used to be referred to as the "Me Generation." And, you can see the Millennials as something of a reaction to the Boomers.

So, if you want to know what Gen Z is going to be like, look at how they react to their parents.

Ford raised wages mainly as an incentive to keep his own workers. The auto industry in Detroit at the time was crazy -- people would jump from company to company and just take unannounced vacations knowing that they could easily find a new job when they returned. Ford raises his wages above his competitors, making it costly for employees to jump ship or to get fired. He ended up getting more reliable employees, and was driven by his business needs, not a desire to help his workers.

From your article:
> Kreipke says there was chronic absenteeism and lots of worker turnover. So Ford gambled that higher wages would attract better, more reliable workers.
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> "It was an absolute, total success," Kreipke says. "In fact, it was better than anybody had even thought."
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> The benefits were almost immediate. Productivity surged, and the Ford Motor Co. doubled its profits in less than two years. Ford ended up calling it the best cost-cutting move he ever made.

I do not think that was meant to be funny or silly. It was actually rather insightful. I think what's pretty incredible is that you completely fail to understand the fundamental truth in that post.

If a fishing breakdown product is emitting this much heat, it's clearly undergoing further fishing, which makes it a potentially usable source of energy. Provided the reactor setup is appropriate for the sequence, there's no reason to stop using an energy-generating mix, when it is not uranium.

I have to conclude that either you didn't understand, or you're just trolling against nuclear power.

This is a very important line of research. Unfortunate that it went wrong, but I strongly believe that immunogenically humanized pigs probably represent the best chance we have of developing adapted organs for transplantation instead of relying on deceased donors. Given that human CMV can cause myocarditis, I can see how this may have come about. I hope that tools will be developed to allow for rapid alteration of immunological antigens in the pig embryo, allowing to grow a donor heart that will avoid risk of rejection and thus negating the need for immunosuppressive drugs in the future, possibly extending the lifespan of transplant recipients significantly, and increasing organ availability.