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I think the "what would you pay to have solved?" question is why business-types are often better than technical-types. I meet very few technical-type hackers who aren't absolute cheapskates with any products and services that
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I don't think the internet is any better. Sure, it can sustain some pockets of awesome journalism, but sites specializing in clickbait are the most prevalent.
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It's not about being a device per se that provides most of the time saving. There are some devices sure, but the biggest time savings come from services. As you increase your income you can buy services such as landscaping, housekeepin
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I wonder if this is behind the greater happiness of people with incomes over 75K per year. They actually have enough money to pay for goods and services that save them time.
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Extended Validation. Usually implies the certificate authority has gone through extra steps to verify the identity of the domain owner.
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Yes, that's Godwin's. Not sure which "law" the original intended, but may be an example of Cunningham's Law. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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People are funny about what they believe. For many, seeing it on TV makes it true. Plumber has truck. Plumber's truck ends up on TV being used by ISIS. Ergo, Plumber must be supporter of ISIS. This is further harmed by it being surpris
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Frivolous example, I know, but you'd be amazed how different Star Wars and Star Trek fans can be! Their differences have tended to be less in recent years as both franchises have become "cool".
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Certainly one I favor! But there's still going to be variation with that. There's the 'soft' cultural variation of expected work hours (duration and placement during the day), remote vs. in-office only, single 20 somethi
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It is frat boy, because a large portion of these types of start ups are funded/started by and for frat boys. While it is an obvious culture to examine, realize that most companies (and certainly all startups) have a cultural expectatio
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Okay, and why is Islamic extremism taking root and spreading? It's like a body, you've got loads of bacteria all over your body, including some nasty MRSA stuff on your skin. This isn't normally a problem. But sometimes somet
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Great book, and his followup book Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb is equally good.
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In the US, the consumer drives a lot of the healthcare decisions. This has positives, as consumers can be more active participants in their health, but can also lead to people shopping for doctors who will prescribe the drugs that they want
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I am mildly colorblind. Doesn't really impact much in day-to-day life, but knowing it allows me to understand that the world I see is not the same as the world most people see. I have no interest in a "cure" any more than I&#
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They touch on it in the article, but it is worth calling special attention to the use of antibiotics to add weight to the animals. It's not being used to treat disease, it's being used to "hack" the biology of the animal
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That's AB InBev and SABMiller. Rumor is if it goes through many of the American brands in SABMiller will be spun off as this is more a purchase for the global presence of SABMiller.
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The old adage, "there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes" is especially relevant to REI staff and customers. Some activities work better than others of course.
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Nutella is generally made of hazelnuts here, is the stuff in France made of peanuts?
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I live in Hawaii. El Niño has had a direct impact on us this year. It's been a really weird summer. Fewer days of tradewinds, more days of hot and muggy. Many other things may be associated with it (increased coral bleaching, increased
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If you see a human doing something for pay they are doing it because they are cheaper than a computer/robot. There is literally nothing a computer/robot can't do if you're willing to invest enough time and money into. Fo
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The author advocates the Talos Principle change the texture of various interactive elements to integrate better with the environment. Interestingly, on some of the game developer's bonus videos they specifically mention that play testi
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It's not the media that causes the individual to crave the media attention or infamy. Does our media contribute? Absolutely. But they are the way they are because of the way we are. Or at least the way the consumers of media are.
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To be fair, it does happen more often in America, which may provide some information to see the underlying conditions that lead to the kind of desperate isolation seen in these manifestos.
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Blaming media has gotten increasingly popular for a variety of societal ills. It's just a favorite boogeyman to go after. Much like people who blame violent video games or 4chan. The ulterior motive is to use the situation to disparage
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"Let's not turn this into a debate on BLANK, instead let's talk about my pet theory BLANK". Seems like that's the only constant after any sort of horrific tragedy. It becomes grist in the mill for people to push the
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One of the infuriately amazing things about Roman history is the tendency for people to see within the past whatever lesson they most want to communicate to the present. Some see Rome through the eyes of the conservative: Once a great natio
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Yes, and I actually just had dinner with some humans working on figuring it out. One possibility is that an invasive species of seaweed is throwing their diet out of whack. Humans can keep helping by gaining greater understandings of the im
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American progressives can be just as guilty, if less organized. They tend to view big business with suspicion and incorrectly think that the American government is hopelessly corrupt and in the pocket of "Big Business and/or Wall
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While this article was more focused on poverty, the other major theme was that things and people are better now in many respects that people think it is. For me, the environmental successes of the last 30 years are a pretty amazing example
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It's really weird to me how commonplace the attitude of "It is what it is" and "Government can't do anything". The air and water quality in the US is vastly better since the passage of laws that created and emp

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