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811.
by civilian 11y ago
It's the same on desktop chrome. :3
812.
by civilian 11y ago
One of my close friends died nearly three years ago, and his family and I spread his ashes in a national forest... possibly illegally, I'm not really sure. I've returned to the spot a few times. I can still find his ashes! They w
813.
by civilian 11y ago
This is an economics website--- shouldn't we be looking at the rate of selfie deaths? Over 1 million selfies are taken a day[0], so your death rate of dying while taking a selfie is 28deaths (in 2015) / 360million (seflies taken
814.
by civilian 11y ago
Right, and I guess I meant to imply that it is some of the unwashed non-elite masses that notice that stuff. Our product is for people who are bad at software and want an easier way to do task X, but they still know to look for the green l
815.
by civilian 11y ago
I work for a SaaS company, we absolutely have customers who email us complaining about putting credit cards in a page served over http.
816.
by civilian 11y ago
It's funny that vice themselves doesn't automatically forward to https.
817.
by civilian 11y ago
I would say that merit is one of a few paths to success. Is it really a good idea to get rid of the "meritocracy myth"? Even if it's 100% true, there is something to the idea that if you put in effort and work hard, you have
818.
by civilian 11y ago
It is something less than a force of nature, but not with moving with the times is still stupid and unadaptable. If you feel strongly about defending the people who were left behind, you can get to work supporting the candlemaker's gui
819.
by civilian 11y ago
If panspermia does happen in the universe, I bet that it happens with the sheltering of asteroids and meteors. Life develops on low-gravity planets with turbulent atmosphere -> some cells get into space -> get caught by comets and ot
820.
by civilian 11y ago
It's probably not simple enough to just look at unemployment-- we should look at workforce participation. The economist had a good chart on the breakdown of: working, unemployed, long-term unemployed, disabled, and retired: http:&#x2F
821.
by civilian 11y ago
To quote Ender's Game: "I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." It doesn't really answer
822.
by civilian 11y ago
I'm 29, and I'm not a hiring manager, but here's where my ageism lies: People in their 60s tend to be less open to new experiences. My ~50 year old guitar teacher told me a story about how he refused to even try guitar hero.
823.
by civilian 11y ago
I've been reading The Vital Question by Nick Lane, where he puts forth some theories about the origin of eukaryotes, and life in general. It does make it seem that abiogenesis and eukaryote-genesis are much more difficult than we give
824.
by civilian 11y ago
To quote Aaron Sorkin somewhat out-of-context: "If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?" I don't want to say that javascript is a good language, but it can get the job done. And nodejs' va
825.
by civilian 11y ago
Our users expect much more involved and interactive websites. (i.e facebook notifications). So you have to accept that we need some ajax and a js framework to update the DOM. And as long we've cracked open that barrel of monkeys, we mi
826.
by civilian 11y ago
Yeah, breeder reactors are even mentioned in the sciam article that nostromo posted. He's cherry-picking his info.
827.
by civilian 11y ago
This is the same argument that the proponents of peak oil put forth. Discovered uranium deposits != all uranium deposits on earth. When price pressure is put on uranium, we'll have more speculators looking for it. (Which the article
828.
by civilian 11y ago
Idk, devil's advocate, polyphasic sleep schedule is definitely something to try if you're curious about things. There's a handful of notable people from history who used polyphasic sleep schedules because they felt that it ga
829.
by civilian 11y ago
Off topic, but is crushing houses fun? It sounds like it'd be a lot of fun.
830.
by civilian 11y ago
I'd prefer they be honest with themselves and use crystal balls.
831.
by civilian 11y ago
"Senior Engineer in Asteroid Dodging"
832.
by civilian 11y ago
Of course, but it's the crust that has seismic events that can be triggered from subtle changes.
833.
by civilian 11y ago
The abstract is definitely scary. But this could never get out of development, at least not with our current corpus of laws. The product designers and engineers would quickly realize that there are hundreds of conflicting laws, and beta-tes
834.
by civilian 11y ago
You should read The Vital Question by Nick Lane. It proposes a hypothesis for abiogenesis which requires very specific conditions to come into existence, and explains why other abiogenesis theories probably don't work. It's by sc
835.
by civilian 11y ago
I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an emai
836.
by civilian 11y ago
Nice. I imagine this was intentional too? http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK Do your ad-buys suffer a loss in price because your logo overlays it? I had the same knee-jerk reaction as thewronbiennale but after thinking about it, I
837.
by civilian 11y ago
My friend would like to point out that the Cowlitz tribe is missing!
838.
by civilian 11y ago
> Why do they have to "contribute to society"? This gets to the core of the question! How did a rich startup person get wealthy anyway? They built something that people wanted. People said: "hey, that thing you built,
839.
by civilian 11y ago
Who gives a shit about the bottom 60% of the USA? They have their cars, refrigerators, cell phones, television and football teams. If we're going to be truly global citizens, we should place much more importance of the global reductio
840.
by civilian 11y ago
This is about finance, not about start-ups. Yes, there's overlap, but it's different. But even if we agree to your point (and I bet PG would agree that there's an element of luck), the pie fallacy is still there. People ought

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