D&D was not mentioned in TFA.

"Notice how those degree programs are rarely advertised anymore." I wonder if that has more to do with the legal trouble Le Cordon Blue Schools got into last year. Essentially some for-profit cooking schools were sued for overstating the employability of their graduates.

It would be far more interesting to know of those who were interested in tech fields, how much these activities influenced them. Of course, that difficulty of the difference in experiments is probably on par with the difference in how interesting the results are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E2%80%932011) The chinese have very strict gun laws, although I have no idea to what level they are enforced.

Really Comcast? I think my head just exploded. There must have been something really expensive going on corporately to supply the data. I can't believe that they would ever do anything for a customer.

Clearly my post didn't go through in time, but it is attached to the parent. Those aren't discounts. The company charges the insurance company more than a procedure costs to get a price increase for the next fiscal year. They never expect the insurance company to pay $350. However, they might go out of business if they charged the insurance company the $75 the procedure costs this year and the insurance company only pays them $75 for the $100 the procedure costs by the end of the next fiscal year.

My wife worked for a medical supply company. The process goes like this. A company offers a product this year. The price is set at fiscal year for Medical payment org(Medicare/Insurance). The service provider charges more than the price set at fiscal year. Then the payment org pays the set amount. The provider writes off the difference in most cases and you don't see any of the process. The real key to this system is the next fiscal year, the price is set by the payment org based on the average charged price for a good or service. First off don't think that a bill paid by insurance really pays all you got billed. Second, they aren't trying to charge you next year's price for the root canal to try and get you to pay more next year.

To answer your title, the researcher used the anonymony of the internet to draw out results that are not drawn out by regular survey questions. More specifically, we got taught racism was bad, so we don't talk about it even on surveys. When election time rolls around then a black candidate actually does significantly worse than his polling numbers.

We learned in decision theory that when faced with a difficult decision, people tend to simplify. We also learned people tend to simplify irrationally. It is a foundational principle for advertising.

I've heard about the subject before, but I'd never been exposed to the original author's mention of death. I wonder if that is what it is all about? Our natural fear or aversion to death and dead bodies makes the uncanny valley happen. Given the stories of vampires, I'm not surprised the movement of a dead body evokes a steeper uncanny valley moment.

In the moment of crisis, they are a lifesaver pushing your software out moments before you piss off the customer. Of course, they are also often the reason you lost three weeks of development time chasing a bug in undocumented code that isn't in the repository and they don't remember writing.

"Perhaps made beds are passe, but so are many items and behaviours that we still maintain as a nod to our heritage." My grandmother had a buttons in her jewelry box. As a child, I wondered why. Then, I grew up and realized that her buttons were not molded from plastic in China. Now I wonder why a shirt with 3 cents of plastic and a seem in the middle is still "formal."

FYI, the Birmingham blob contains quite a lot of rural area. The Opelika/Auburn, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville areas are entirely unrepresented. In the 2000 census, Opelika ranked #32 in the country for percentage of local population with graduate degrees, Huntsville ranked #66, Tuscaloosa #79. It also appears as if the Mobile area is only partially represented. If you cut out those areas, then Alabama does indeed look incredibly dumb.

I'm looking at a map missing blobs for places I know to contain concentrations of highly educated populations in the south. I'm also looking at some blobs that, given local information you would expect to break the curve on the low end, doing relatively well. I'd be interested to know how the blobs were chosen, what the empty spots mean, and a filled map.

However when UAVs are approved and if this guy's decendants can carry a decent payload, regular unmanned transportation of goods with a price independant of idiots killing each other in the desert might be important to humanity even if it is slow.