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Comment · 8 years ago
Extremely poorly? How so?
Comment · 8 years ago
Social mobility doesn't really matter when everyone more or less has the same quality of life, as in Europe. That's what many don't understand. The Europeans have essentially nullified the value of social mobility in the first place. That is why their economies are more stagnant than that of the US.
Comment · 8 years ago
The US is one of the best places in the world to be a business owner, that's why its economy is so much more dynamic than European economies. In order to create such an environment worker protections cannot be as robust as in Europe. This biased article of course ignores that fact.

Many workers are much better off in the US than in Europe as well. They get to keep a greater portion of their income, their income goes farther in the US than it would in Europe, and they have more opportunities to change jobs and careers because the flip side of weaker worker protections means businesses can hire with greater agility than in Europe.

Comment · 8 years ago
If I had to guess, it's because the moon was formed from a molten ball of Earth material while other moons in the solar system were formed from the same accretive processes that formed the planets.
Comment · 8 years ago
Considering millions of years of evolution shaped female brains to be the primary caregivers, isn't this a common sense approach and explanation for the behavior?
Comment · 8 years ago
Especially someone busy writing a large collection of the greatest English works of all time.

Alternately, if they couldn't read they'd have to go see his plays performed. That Shakespeare really was a shrewd businessman.

Comment · 8 years ago
1. I believe black and hispanic students could do just as well as asian students if their cultures were similar to that of the asian students.

Let's not kid ourselves. The asian students doing well on these tests are born into cultures that value academic achievement more than the average black or hispanic family. There's nothing inherently different about the different groups aside from their cultures.

Keep the tests, and encourage a culture of academic excellent to take root in different communities where it may not currently exist.

2. Let's stop being so obsessed with race. Racial quotas make people think more about race when our goal should be to make people think less about race and more about individuals apart from the color of their skin.

Comment · 8 years ago
Because it has nothing to do with the funding and everything to do with who is a student there.
Comment · 8 years ago
The purpose of a Master's is to develop expertise in a particular subfield of CS. Your course plan doesn't seem to be focused in any subfield. You'll get more out of your time in the program, and will be able to more easily identify what knowledge gaps to fill, once you decide what you will specialize in.
Comment · 8 years ago
What outcome? You think enforcing border security and enacting a travel ban on countries identified by the Obama administration as terrorist threats somehow shows racism was a significant part of Trump's election?

Those are common sense policies for most people and have nothing to do with racism. Law, order and regimented immigration processes are not racist, though people who want open borders for the express purpose of "making America brown" most definitely are racist. You should check your biases.

Maybe Clinton was just a terrible candidate and Trump was on the right side of many policy issues? No, that couldn't be the case at all. Must be the racism.

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