There's been a lot of press lately labeling these meat alternatives as overly processed junk. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but I certainly am aware of who exactly benefits from these sorts of labels.

Since I don't read WSJ, I found the CDC's report instead. In it, we find that the youth suicide rate for urban areas is basically flat. All of the increase is in rural areas.

Data may in fact be more valuable than oil, but neither Apple nor Amazon demonstrate that idea. Apple claims it's not selling it's data at all (and it's investor reports seem to bear that out) and Amazon's growth is largely a matter of market position, not data.

When demand was low, the handful of people for whom programming was exciting were all that was needed. Now, demand is very high, and learning to program will be quite difficult for the masses need to fill this demand.

https://www.umass.edu/legal/de...

Wonder why your fact is moderated as a 2 while the dick weed you're correcting gets a 5? Who benefits from this bogus idea?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that politicians are better political leaders than, say, brain surgeons or real estate developers.

Learning styles is a harmful myth:

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/n...

That long term unemployment number is as a percentage of unemployed people, per the link you posted. The department of labor (the bureau of labor statistics) calculates unemployment with a national household survey:

http://www.bls.gov/bls/unemplo...

The world bank unemployment numbers (which are actually gathered by the international labor organization) are just a regurgitation of the BLS numbers above, which you'd know if you'd bothered at all to investigate the numbers you are quoting above.

See:

http://data.worldbank.org/indi...

(look at the metadata for the source)

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurve...

(each country has it's own source, methodology, etc).

Valid complaints would be that the numbers reported don't include the homeless (although those estimates are gathered elsewhere), you don't understand the report, or that it conflicts with your personal opinion.

Less crime is great, but these methods presuppose that the DA & the police are working so closely together as to be indistinguishable. If that's a desirable arrangement, we still need someone who is willing to prosecute police misconduct.

Also? Cynthia Than's headline is the opposite of the conclusion in the research results. A more serious treatment of the structural problems that lead to these gaps.

The NSA et al are (legally) *more* restricted in the US than abroad. While there might be congressional hearings & other hand wringing about what the NSA does in the US, foreign countries are a cyber free fire zone. Information superiority is the goal, and the NSA has huge fire power ATM.

Well, they charge exactly the same for 2 years of coverage for the 5c, 5s, 5, 4, and 4s.

Hardly.

The PDF touches on security, but only alludes to faster lines. I wonder how you'd protect the 25,000 pylons? Seems like the answer is "not bother".