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I visited the Amazon Bookstore in Columbus Circle when it opened. It was evident that with its vast computing and data facilities, Amazon can solve economic allocation problems wit…

I manage by not starting a family and by not having kids (to my knowledge). Too expensive.

Unfortunate. University IT departments are susceptible to neoliberal evangelical insanity. When it happened to my department, I decided that I was unworthy to clean the digital bed…

It has control mechanisms. What it doesn't need is precisely what you describe: a self-appointed, self-styled group of "leaders" who followed the wasteful winner-take-all, judgment…

I used SNOBOL4 in the 80s. It was beautiful for parsing.

Animal ag is environmentally devastating.

Downvoters can take a warm piss on a power line. The researchers are quoted asserting the profound significance of their discovery. This is reason to be skeptical, given the field …

If you are not sure, then read the article and keep track of what the researchers say. This will increase your degree of sureness.

Self-promotion is suspect in this highly competitive, and not infrequently nasty field. It was known that there was some transport mechanism--now there are details. But I would cau…

"Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great Potential" http://www.ams.org/notices/200905/tx090500586p.pdf Is critical of scale-free networks of the pref…

Yes. Many category theorists would find Moggi91 opaque. It could benefit from commentary and more detail than would be standard for a published paper, if the intention is to make t…

Not a great deal of explicit category theory in this. Somone ought to implement Moggi's paper on exceptions and show exactly what the constructions mean.

No xy support yet...

That's one reason I use unexploitable public goods, like public tranportion, and go to salad bars not trendy enough for some kid to want to scalp.

OP, do not listen to the moralizers who tell you that you need to exercise discipline and will power. Let them deplete their limited reserves of will power and see how far it gets …

"1.) Doing things you don't want to do, but are necessary for a paycheck or otherwise is a basic part of being a grown-up. Lacking the discipline to simply get such things done and…

Then again there are Nietzsche's three terrible truths: 1. Existential: death and suffering are inevitable.* 2. Moral: life is amoral. 3. Epistemic: most of what we think we know a…

It has everything--except for an ex employee to "open source" a sexual harassment and hostile workplace scandal on social media [1]. 1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014…