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If you squint, "Falling Down" is sort of this movie, where ordinary guy loses his shit because of forces beyond his control.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
Meh. This is (mostly) the students' and the families' who abet their stupid decisions fault.

If you go to an in-state community college and then matriculate to an in-state university in my state the total cost of college is (~$4500 for 2 years of CC living at home + ~$25000 for 2 years of closest to home in-state school) ~$30000 + the cost of living at home.

Meanwhile people continue to whine about sending their kids to school in places where they wrack up that much in debt per academic year before accounting for housing and travel expenses.

If you don't want to be in debt and you aren't rich or dirt poor make reasonable decisions and stop whining. If you can afford to replace your mini-van with a Prius, you can probably afford to send your child to college, especially if you save the difference during the CC years.

The real issue is that people feel entitled to the best schools and will so make absurd decisions to enable it regardless of what their child is studying or how well they actually do in college.

And all of the above said, I do agree that college is increasing in price more than it should. I think it's because research and lifestyle costs are getting pushed into tuition combined with state legislatures who don't want to support colleges in their state budgets that are really doing it. This has many pernicious effects, like transforming the college meal plan into a clone of your closest mall's food court.
Parliament approved (by 100% votes).

Unbelievable.
Just signed up and it immediately asked me to login, but won't accept the credentials I just setup.
How many 18 years olds are making rational decisions about return on investment in 10-15 years time?

I'm not sure how you go about adequately informing students about a major life decision they are making.
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It's not the interest, it's the principal. And I don't understand how the principal got so high.

Is calculus ten times more expensive to teach than it was thirty years ago? Is Shakespeare? Supply is totally inelastic, because it's almost impossible to get a new college accredited (for profit schools all started with an already accredited school and expand them). Same with demand - not having a college degree puts you on a lower track that's almost impossible to break out of, and the connections, etc. mean that MOOC's aren't a good substitute for undergraduate education, while the professions all require specialized schooling afterwards.

So where does all the money go? At a non profit university it goes to faceless, non-teaching administrators to play the school prestige game, and maybe a little research.

A generation is broke because they're not paying for education, they're paying for education that can't be unbundled from empire-building.
Man found alive in body bag at funeral home (pacemaker malfunctioned)
This could turn ugly really fast. If Russia attacks Ukraine the US and Britain would have to protect the borders of Ukraine, according to a treaty signed in 1994 [0].

If the US don't follow the treaty I guess we will know how much these treatys really are worth.

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-Briti...
Does anyone else see the irony in a politician saying “If you have two different agencies, it becomes a bureaucracy,” Mr. Rogers added. “I think that would be a mistake.”?

I think he needs to understand a few things from the constituent's perspective:

1) The government is already too much of a bureaucracy.

2) The NSA is also a bureaucracy ... and doesn't have enough oversight/transparency as it is.

3) He's not really in a position to say what's right since he's part of the problem.
I think that is the point, they cannot easily make back the $400k

I have to go to the dental college because I do not have insurance, it is impossible to go to a dentist without insurance these days. I usually am seated among many other people at the college who actually have insurance, it is just their deductible is far too high unless they go to the dental school for work.
Can you recommend an overview? I could, for instance, read the Cambridge book but does it have an overview article or is a collection of individual areas articles?
Ads are useful to my readers because they don't have unlimited time to research 10,000 types of side chairs for use in their office projects. If they see a chair they like in an ad, they'll meet with a furniture dealer to check it out, and then maybe use it in a future project.

How is that bad?

Many people like advertisements though - just pick up a September issue of Vogue and you'll see over 500 pages of a 900 page magazine filled with ads. And people go out of their way to buy it because they love the ads.
My reaction as well. I suppose it must be true that United Russia are rigging all the polls.
It's funny, Google doesn't seem to be using OSM data directly, but I think they might be looking periodically at OSM activity to know where to focus their map generation.

Google never had any real super high quality detail in my tiny home town. When I first got into OSM, I did what lots of people do: I filled in a bunch of details I know about where I grew up. Kind of fun. Well a month or so later, I checked out Google maps and, lo and behold, their data was much better for that little town. It was NOT the OSM edits I made--they didn't steal anything. But I found it odd that they'd all of a sudden take interest in a little town of less than 1500 people in the middle of nowhere. I don't know. It could have been a coincidence--It's possible they had a big world-wide map update during that month that updated everything.

Oh, and it RAISES the question, not "begs" the question.
Sure.
If your ASP is $6, then 2.75% is $0.165. This is to be compared to a merchant account for which the 2%+ 0.45 is $0.57. As you can see there is a huge difference.
The problem is that credit card processors (Visa, Mastercard...) are charging Square 0.1+1.5% or something which basically means that Square loses money on the transaction.

http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/interchange-fee/
You are absolutely right about the relative value of community college, but you pointed out the major problem: community colleges are not thought of highly at all, even though 2 years of CC credited to a bachelor's degree at a more prestigious university counts just the same.

I'm not sure how CC's get over the stigma attached to them, but it really needs to happen. They are good value.
Companies do not, usually, plan decades ahead. They manage the next quarter and plan the next three years. Youngsters entering or not a professional area is something that takes 20 years to produce a measurable effect.

Government, is the one that should do the multi decade planning.
Sorry, I was referring to quote in your comment.

I find it frustrating the religion has become such a taboo subject because few people decided to misinterpret it and use it for their selfish purposes.

Other than being fascinating in its own right. It can be a perfect antidote to our modern anxiety filled lives that we live in constant conflict both with ourselves and with the external world. We NEED religion now more than ever. We need religion that questions our view self [1], questions nature of our consciousness, questions nature of the world we live in [2]. I see it as a tool which lets us explore the things that are unsuitable for exploration through the scientific method.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion)
truth is the first casualty at the time of war. hence you want to see propaganda from both sides.
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So basically outsource college. We're not going to have anything left.

Heck why even send people for education, why not go overseas for dental work (I bet it already happens).
From the word "snatched", it looks like in your opinion Ukraine was Putin's property... or was it protectorate?
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> I am glad this has finally got to the top of HN

Because once HN is aware of it, we'll... uhm... Send Putin some nasty Perl scripts?

This, like almost all political / breaking news stories, is probably off topic for this site, given the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

This will probably be the opening item on most TV news shows this evening. It's currently the lead article on www.cnn.com www.corriere.it www.bbc.com/news/ etc...
Wow. I like you blamed this entire mess on students and parents.

>>The real issue is that people feel entitled to the best schools and will so make absurd decisions to enable it

Nonsense. People want to send their kids to the best schools because the best schools are the gatekeepers to the upper class. Someone who graduates from an Ivy League school gets to build a network with affluent alumni and has a high chance of landing a job that pays six-figures right off the bat. Someone who goes to a merely good state school though? There is a very good chance they won't even find a job after graduation.
"a part of sovereign country is being aggressively annexed by their neighbor"...sounds like you are getting your media fix from Fox News
yea i dont doubt it would be complex & to build an upsampling sprite rendering engine you'd have to understand all this stuff. With old games like this it would probably involve some manual work cuz you'd have to recompose images, smooth as a unit, then decompose somehow back to the original tiling. I mean.... I'm not gonna do it & wouldn't bother trying

the computational price will be much much cheaper tho. swap in upsampled sprite (36 tiles to every 1 in old format, let's say) rather than post-processing every single frame in real-time with a smoothing/upsampling algorithm.

it would also keep the pieces distinct from each other rather than having objects/characters/backgrounds morph in & out of one another
My high school counselors frequently came by classes and spoke about college---while they didn't talk about the financials in detail, they easily could have. It'd be as simple as doing a quick calculation on the board of how long it will take to pay off some amount of debt. Now whether that advice would stick in the students' heads, I don't know, but they should at least try. There's also high school economics classes that should be discussing this. I was required to take one and my teacher actually did a better job of explaining the cost of college than the counselors.
How do you balance that with giving access to college to individuals who wouldn't have it otherwise?

It isn't black and white.
I can understand if he loses the bitcoins because he doesn't qualify for seller protection. Terms and Conditions are annoying like that. But what's the story with Paypal saying he owes them £1500? What is that supposed to pay for? Is he somehow being held liable for the users whose accounts were hacked?

>One bought two bitcoins (4 x 0.5)

Yes, thank you Guardian, we know how much two is.
It would be interesting to discuss how Ukraine got into this kind of situation ([1] [2]) and what are the "natural" consequences of it. Somehow it feels we are not dealing with a single country anymore.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/1iiXqHN.jpg

[2] http://i.imgur.com/eNo56LZ.jpg
I believe most freshmen in US college are 18.

Cannot drink but everything else is legal.
And usually none of the versions is the correct one...

That specific part might talk about some groups of people (not army related) trying to do what some other did in other cities of Ukraine. It's hard to know what's true and what's not.
It's a crazy situation all around. Russia has a military base in the Ukraine, in Crimea.

If Cuba had a modern day revolution would the US not send in troops to Guantanamo? Would we be in the wrong for doing so? Even if the interim government was more US friendly?
Very nice writeup. BTW, I signed up for a 1 year personal subscription to fpcomplete earlier this year - even though I only use it an hour or two a week for brushing up on my Haskell, I really like it.
You caused me some cognitive dissonance. Why does the latter strike me as offensive, but the former doesn't? My reaction to the latter is "preying on the vulnerable". The former is also, so is the reason that only the latter offends me is that I'm an Ubuntu using atheist?
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> Someone who goes to a merely good state school though? There is a very good chance they won't even find a job after graduation.

You can't underestimate the psychological value people put on attending even just good colleges in your state, even when doing so isn't financially sound.
See what happened in Ukraine's neighboring country, Moldova, 24 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Transnistria

Moldova had a population of ethnic Russians that lived on the Eastern bank of the river D'niest'r. (Similar to the Crimean region in Ukraine.)

Eventually a civil war broke out, and Russia stepped in to back the ethnically Russian region (sound familiar?). The end result was a stalemate. A ceasefire was declared in 1992, and the ethnically Russian region decided to spin off its own government. They call themselves Pre'd'niest'rovia (or Transnistria), and function as an entirely separate country from Moldova. That means different language (Russian, not Moldovan), currency, parliament, military, etc etc. Yet Moldova never accepted it as a sovereign country, and neither did the rest of the world.

To this day, when you see Moldova on a map you only see one country where really there are two.

What's happening in Ukraine today is almost a mirror image. I suspect it will result either in a similar two-country situation with one being unrecognized, or the Eastern half of Ukraine will form a new country.

PS - I was born in Transnistria and lived there until I was eight. Several months ago I went to visit for the first time since leaving 18 years ago. It's a miserable place to live. I also visited Kiev and Odessa (Ukraine) on the same trip, and am glad I did so before this violence broke out.
Did Ukraine attack Russia in any way? No. Is Ukraine a sovereign Country? Yes. Is Russia sending troops to Ukraine? Yes. This is an invasion. Isn't an invasion an aggression? If not, what is?
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Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is entirely accurate.
Absolutely. Health tourism is a very real thing.

Heck, I was born overseas and go back to visit twice a year. That's when I get my health-related stuff done. Not only is it ridiculously cheap (sometimes even fully covered by my parent's insurance, even though I'm almost 30), but it's also very high quality.

Healthcare in the US is an absolute joke. It makes me sad.