I was told up to 25% of first year teachers quit due to the shock of 'real world' teaching. What were the realities of your job that shocked you (compared to previous idealistic interpretations)?

I_ate_your_bees · 19 days

You would be shocked how much of the internet is held together by duct tape.

OlmecsTempleGuard · 23 days

Make sure you fully understand the vesting schedule. Some offerings vest partially at a set date, with options to purchase more at set intervals based on a given criteria. For example, if they offered you 5,000 stock options you may only get 2,500 after your first complete year of employment, with 500 more each additional 6 month periods you work at the company.

nanomatus · 26 days

It seems intuitively obvious that in real life, not just answering a questionnaire, people would evaluate what sort of trouble the person was in.

The Good Samaritan Experiment was not a questionnaire. It was real people, walking right past other real people, in obvious distress. From the authors of the study:

"Some literally stepped over the victim on their way to the next building!"

It has been duplicated with similar results each time.

Oftentimes humans don't behave they way you think they should or would.

nanomatus · 26 days

Religious person sees a car pulled over on the road, feels compelled (because of the doctrine they studied that morning) to help, and pulls over and helps.

This is false, though the religious person may rationalize that they are helping because of the doctrine they studied earlier. The largest contributing factor to whether a person will help someone else in need, in a situation such as a car on the side of the road, is how pressed for time a person is. This goes for both religious and non religious people.

"Half of the subjects were assigned to talk on the Good Samaritan Parable; the others were assigned a different topic. Some of the subjects were told they were late and should hurry; some were told they had just enough time to get to the recording room; and some were told they would arrive early. Judging by their responses to a questionnaire, they had different religious and moral orientations. The only one of these variables that made a difference was how much of a hurry the subjects were in. 63% of subjects that were in no hurry stopped to help, 45% of those in a moderate hurry stopped, and 10% of those that were in a great hurry stopped. It made no difference whether the students were assigned to talk on the Good Samaritan Parable, nor did it matter what their religious outlook was."

Darley and Batson (1973) - Good Samaritian Experiment

willw · 1 month

the redhead actor/ess is wendy mccolm

Thank you, syroncoda and thank you Google Image Search

corbs · 1 month

It is almost laughably easy to improve your memory through various techniques. The loci system of memory, or memory palace, can be learned in a matter of hours and will stay with you your whole life with minimal upkeep. Your brain evolved to remember two things well; interesting and novel things like berries that taste good, and the location of those things. You can utilize this by associating locations with numbers or "registers". As an example, my memory palace contains places along the walk I took to school as a kid. It looks like this:

Mailbox
Church
Photostudio
Architects office
Bus loop

If I want to remember a list of items; chair, glasses, fighter jet, iPad, wheat bread, I simply form a mental picture of those items at the corresponding location. You can then mentally walk down the path and see what items are at each spot. It helps immensely if you picture the items as being odd in some way. Maybe the chair is really huge or the fighter jet is tie dyed rainbow colors.

It took me under a week, practicing about 15 minutes a day, to get up to 30 registers.

crazywooly · 1 month

I've driven by their office. It's located in an industrial park in st.louis.

Midiex · 2 months

Also, top speed of 60 mph, that doesn't seem right. I'm sure the engine in this thing is capable of driving at higher speeds.

The president's car is significantly heavier than a standard Cadilac; 5 inch solid steel plate on the bottom, 8 inch thick armor plated doors, etc. A 4 ft x 8ft steel plate 5 inches thick weighs just under 3.5 tons.

I wouldn't doubt if a standard Cadillac engine had to be significantly modified to support the additional strain of that weight.

Theodore_Brosevelt · 2 months

SMS backup for android will automatically send txt messages to a folder in your gmail account. You cannot respond from gmail but it would let you know when to go grab your phone.

There is also the cool android notifier program that runs on your phone and desktop. When your phone rings, gets a txt message, push message etc., it notifies you on your desktop.

http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/

BindingsAuthor · 2 months

Was in production, looked amazing, got canned.

riceadam · 2 months

At one point the US also had Manned Spy Satelites. There was a discovery documentary about how one of the US MOLs actually passed within visual range of it's Russian counterpart. The crew was concerned because the Russian's satellite had a mounted cannon while the US's was defenseless. It was probably another instance that could have turned the Cold War hot. Pretty crazy to think that these was zipping around the planet in 1972.

cinder_and_smoke · 2 months

In the study just the relevant parts were submerged. You are essentially are putting yourself in a shallow bowl of hot water.

Con_Jonnor69 · 2 months

I've often thought an effective ad campaign for stopping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to show Iraqi soliders in tanks driving down a typical American main street, with a few Americans being frisked against a wall.

"Would you think they are here to help? Tell your representative the war ends now."

djf4 · 2 months

Put 1000 of the craziest right wingers on an isolated island for a few years with 1000 hard lefties on another island. See what the result is like after a few years.

NotAJewishPomeranian · 3 months

My friend, lets call him Joe, works as an assistant for a women who has close to 100 million in assets. Here is one thing you have to know about the ultra rich, especially those who are second gen rich or rich through marriage, as she is...their sole function in life is to want something and then have another person figure out how to obtain it. At that level of wealth and fame you have an assistant who handles everything for you.

She likes bannas and strawberries. Therefore, her housekeeper goes to the store every morning and picks up a fresh bunch of bannas and a fresh container of strawberries. The previous days fruit is simply discarded, even if it's merely a day old.

She saw a commercial about the iPad and asked Joe if it would be something simple enough for her to use. When he said it was she sent him to the Apple store to purchase 10 of them so she could keep them scattered throughout her house so she would never have to hunt around to find one.

He does the same thing for all of her tech related purchasing. She gives him a credit card that he uses for everything and leaves it up to him on how to get her the things she wants.

samanthalovesyou · 3 months

This clip is from the 4 hour NOVA series Making Stuff. Each episode is pretty amazing and worth the watch.

hannahjoy33 · 3 months

Call the series, "too good to be true"

danger_mcboom · 3 months

When my grandfather passed away, each of his three biological children received one million dollars a piece. I received nothing, with his will stating that I was "smart enough to make it on my own". Within one year each of them were broke. One even got foreclosed on when he couldn't make his mortgage payments. It was all squandered on fancy trips and useless trinkets.

brownyboy177 · 3 months

Don't do it. If you have complications you will have significantly worse vision, and it maynot be fixable. If I would have gotten LASIK, I would not have been able to be outside past sunset, as I suffered from what is referred to as night blindness or halos. Look at ortho-k contact lenses instead. They simulate what lasik will do to your eyes and are not permanent.

mrpandaguy · 3 months

This is my goto when someone at work tells me my workload has just doubled.

Karandr · 4 months

Does it cost more for the manufacturer to produce a higher capacity drive?

It depends on the type of drive.

Magnetic hard drives come typically in two standard sizes, 3.5" (desktop) and 2.5" (laptop). A desktop drive is bigger and uses slightly more raw materials, so it's raw material cost is higher. Raw material cost, however, is a negligible part of the cost of hard drives. A 500GB desktop drive is nearly identical in raw material to a 250GB desktop drive. They are both usually comprised of the same number of physical platters. The difference is that the individual bits of data on a larger drive must be more densely packed. This means that the read write heads have to be more precise in their movements. When you buy a larger capacity drive you are subsiding the cost of these new methods of precision in accessing the stored data.

In the case of flash storage, like the iPhone, a 64GB drive has more physical transistors than a 16GB model. The higher the number of transistors, the higher the likelihood that the chips will fail QA testing and need to be scrapped. For newer technologies, it can mean the difference in price between a 16GB chip being $10 while a 32GB chip is more than $20. When production processes get better and error rates go down, the price difference between the 16GB and 32GB drop.

nothing-nowhere · 4 months

at least that god exists.

TrailerVerse · 4 months

Does the colorspace look off to anyone else? It seemed like a home movie.

crushed_pepper · 4 months

The real question is, how long from whose.perspective? The people in the spaceship or the people back on earth?

Enraged_Beaver · 4 months

I have a semi irrational fear that I will be arrested, convicted, and spend time in jail for a crime I didn't commit. When I was in high school I was falsed accused of something and it was amazing how quickly people can turn against you.

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