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Seconded. I'm a relatively experienced lifter - heavy squats 3x per week is brutal for the first week or so and then your body adapts to it. I've found that I'll actually stick wit…

Sikuli is freaking great, though not sure how this is news, it's been around. Super useful for automating things that are easy to handle by looking for patterns/things on screen an…

Both of these posts have been educational and I now understand the debate in far more detail than before. Thank you!

Also, will books that aren't on Amazon cease to "exist"? There are a number of books I enjoyed in the paper era that I flat out can't find on Amazon now, and I tend to think of Ama…

WRT Executives interests not necessarily aligning with their parent - absolutely true. And yeah, I probably should have been less abrasive. Can you double-check your link? I tried …

TIL Comcast isn't in it for the public interest. I'm not missing that at all. The fact that we expect corporations to further their own interests over those of the public (and that…

As much as I hate Comcast and occasionally say prayers that a cement truck accidentally crashes into Tom Wheeler's house, and I'd love to see a massive scandal here - these emails …

I'm still baffled at how everyone considers these startups to be "underachieving". In terms of becoming the next facebook or twitter? Well, no shit. That's a borderline impossible …

(1) I love this. (2) Having limited legal knowledge, I'm curious what he means with "a lottery ticket to a lawsuit". Is he indicating that patenting something would make a company …

That's decently accurate. We're all doing what's in our best interest, in the role that we play in that time. In general - I want to give people who don't know me personally (and e…

Yeah, but Watterson clearly doesn't like working with technology. He's very much a pen-paper-human kind of guy, and I don't see him all of a sudden deciding to step into the intern…

Am I the only one who thinks that this could hugely backfire from a PR perspective? The message is "The Verizon Network is Crowded Right Now." not "Verizon is Deliberately Slowing …

This is awesome! As a non-neuroscientist, the WashU course on Coursera about Computational Neuroscience was also really good. Not sure if there's an upcoming offering, but I'd high…

I kind of suspect Amazon knew this when they were making it. Remember their free-publicity drones segment on 60 minutes that made Amazon Prime go apeshit right before Black Friday?…

Given the way that one hand tends to quietly grabass the other in prestigious U.S. financial organizations and large corporations, we should probably narrow the title to "unsolicit…

Yeah - I second that. Quora is one of the few sites that sends me weeklyish emails that I haven't unsubscribed from because the content is fantastic. I always seem to learn somethi…

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I have a different approach to the same problem, although I'm actively building out a solution involving creating geographically local communities around MOOCs and finding study pa…

You're right - I should have phrased it "perceived self-interest mixed with doses of human volatility/irrationality"

I would argue more that the instilled mindset of "do as the authority figures say, you have no influence in the matter" that's pervasive in schools also does a huge amount to train…

I would say that rather than "the government behaves rationally" - that every individual behaves in their best interest. High-ranking intelligence officials will push for more powe…

I've basically stopped believing any science headline from a major mainstream news source. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? Huffpo? Don't even bother, they're misinterpreting the science deliberat…

Awesome article! Out of curiosity, how do you handle conflicts? Like, say you have an important customer who wants to meet in the morning, or things have fallen behind and DEAR GOD…

I'd also love to hear your thoughts on why you're hanging up the jacket - I'm considering starting consulting in the same area for side income. (and whether you'd considered chargi…

From a "get people to play with numbers" perspective, this was actually a pretty cool challenge on Warren Buffet's part. Most people are going to spray-and-pray (my facebook feed i…