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> Your best bet to make it in America is to leverage yourself to the hilt. If you succeed, the benefits are privatized and you can sail off into the sunset. If you fail, the losses are eaten by the public.

I couldn't agree more but I would say that it applies not just in America, but in many other countries too. We are seeing it across the western world at the moment, where, because of low central bank interest rates, the virtuous savers are being burnt alive to repair the balance sheets of the wicked banks.

I don't have evidence that hormones in beef affect humans. Do you have evidence that they don't? Personally I would rather not eat it without such evidence.

I just quickly googled and found this on the website of the American Public Health Association: "By contrast, the US government position is that hormone residues in beef from adult cattle pose no threat to human health. This assumption of safety, however, has remained untested by long-term epidemiologic studies and instead relies on dated research concerning the ability of estrogen (estradiol) to mutate genes. This policy fails to reflect more recent research that hormones and hormonally active chemicals may exert their toxicity instead via epigenetic changes.12,23"

Source: http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm...

Expecting downvotes for this: I strongly suspect that hormones in meat make Americans bigger. I am from Europe. I have met many Americans both of whose parents were born in my country. They don't look like us. My perception is that on average they are significantly bigger, and are both taller and broader than is normal in my country. I don't know if this has health implications, but I would rather not eat meat which contains growth hormones.

I don't think it's random - it seems to detect your face and then place cats around it.

I guess an added bonus of what you're suggesting is that the correct link could be crowdsourced; if the system kept track of which of the options users clicked on, it could figure out pretty quickly which one is correct.

These rankings are wrong - the nightmare that is Heathrow should not come ahead of Copenhagen, which is one of the most convenient and pleasant airports I have used.

Indeed. But to me it reads more like the album has been played 7.7 million times.

I'm wondering if there is a mistake in the numbers.

The album has 12 tracks, so if the whole album was streamed 7.7m times at $0.005 per track streamed, the royalty payment would be closer to $400,000

"And despite the so-called high number of Asian males in CS in the US, I rarely see them in C-level positions in tech companies (say as CTOs) even compared to females."

Seeing as Asian-Americans are about 5% of the population while women are roughly 50%, all things being equal you would expect to see far more women than Asian men in any given position.

But I agree with the sentiment that these events are fighting exclusion with more exclusion. I would even go so far as to say that some companies seem to have a policy of positive discrimination in favour of women when it comes to hiring. And that is just unfair.

Quite apart from the ethical ins and outs of this, it's simply a buggy release.

I played around with my new (and unwanted) email address and found the following:

1. Email sent to the new facebook address from the gmail account associated with my profile gets delivered to my facebook messages.

2. Email sent to the new facebook address from another gmail account I own is not delivered. It simply disappears.

This is basic stuff. I guess they did like no testing before they released this f*up to their billion or so users.

MC is confused.

High frequency trading covers a broad range of trading strategies, some of which are beneficial to market participants.

In particular, were all automated market making to be banned, we would see a huge jump in the cost of trading.

The fuss about HFT is distracting people from the much more serious problem of good old-fashioned insider trading, which remains rampant.