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Why is the small number of women in science a problem? To call this fact a problem good evidence is needed.* Usually when this is called a problem it is done along with making the …

It's ironic that many authors resort to using the blatantly sexist 'she' to avoid being called sexist. I would love to see any evidence that the usage of 'he' somehow harms females…

For the claim that 'there is too few qualified people in the US' to be a scientific claim, it needs to be falsifiable. In other words, what evidence do you need to see, in the futu…

While it seems intuitive that a more scientifically 'literate' population is 'better', is 'scientific illiteracy' really a problem? To me it would be a problem if there were lots o…

Or the fact that all ATT (and possibly Verizon) traffic goes through the NSA.

To me things haven't really changed. The non-techy users never made good use of the freedoms of the PC-era, so to them their environment was just as restricted as the Kindle or iPa…

It seems because of the fact that American Jews are much better organized, and better focused on their interests, than any other group. They're probably the most politically active…

There is a book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (by two political scientists), that argues the Jewish/Israeli lobby is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful,…

Thinking of this from supply and demand theory, programmers only build programs that have a market, and there doesn't seem to be a market for such a tool (there isn't a large group…

Wouldn't the perfect cloud platform be one that charges based on disk IO, disk space used, network IO, RAM space used, (Ram IO?,) and CPU used? Maybe there are other metrics I'm ig…

After getting used to Chrome's silent updates, I started to find it breathtakingly ridiculous the way Firefox kept interrupting its startup asking about updates. When I start Firef…

Was it suggested that all of the assumptions of the classical model are correct?

@Steko: I saw a supposedly new, and saddening, photo of Steve Jobs in which he looks emaciated. Maybe it is the way he is dressed that makes him look so much worse than what we are…

What made Microsoft evil: They used to go into acquisition talks with small companies without planning to buy them. They'd learn about their technology and duplicate it themselves.…

Building on Donald Knuth's definition of an artist (someone who does work that cannot yet be automated, such as a programmer), it seems like today the most efficient economy is one…

Wouldn't creating a patent alliance render the evils of this system ineffective? Members of the alliance would work together to acquire patents, and these patents will be used as p…

I read that PGP did that in the 90's.

I thought revenue was separate from expenses.

The question is how the users feel about it. How the users should feel about it is irrelevant.

I agree. I think overall Google behaves more like a grown-up than Facebook does.