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Better: quote the actual authors. > We therefore tested whether the mindfulness trait predicted a reduction of grammatically congruent preferences ... Mindfulness was shown to corr…

Is there an argument to be made why $HELL is not a problem for the human race?

Deploying a rails app to a VPS (e.g. digital ocean or linode) isn't that much harder than setting up a development rails server on your work machine. If you have some time in the n…

If you liked this comment, you will most likely enjoy the prince. It's a pretty faithful homage to Macchiavelli's argumentation style

I believe the 0 m/s refers to the boost stage's speed after a successful landing.

bandwidth is the derivative of transfer over time. It has the same relationship to transfer as speed has to distance. bandwidth = d(transfer) / dt

I've been emailing one of your colleagues about working at cognitect - any chance you could help me get inducted into that software illuminati?

Actually my first thought was also, "well, it is targeted toward gamers". But Starcraft? Was your handle "uglyblacklesbianexxonexecutive"? I play starcraft II almost every day and …

> we’re getting roughly 80% less activity from Asia than we should in the absence of language constraints Bit of an assumption here: absent language constraints, Chinese and anglop…

I believe you are speaking past my point. [repeats point]

SEEKING WORK - Remote Bioinformatics software developer, experience with the numpy/pandas/scikit world, analyzing FASTA data, flourescence images from microfluidic arrays, and reli…

> ... nearly all agree that we need to move with great deliberation when altering the ecosystem of the ocean. It's been quite a while since Humanity applied anything like deliberat…

SEEKING WORK - Remote Bioinformatics software developer, experience with the numpy/pandas/scikit world, analyzing FASTA data, flourescence images from microfluidic arrays, and reli…

It's also interesting that whenever the subject of losethos is brought up, the discussions take a strangely reliable turn. Someone (or several someones) makes a comment that includ…

That's certainly one way to look at it. On the other hand, the same powerful army has struggled on several occasions recently to put down insurgencies from determined, armed local …

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This is really interesting to me. How do you compare societies in terms of their materialism? Which are the most/least materialistic?

I've spent some time making web-based software while sitting across the lab from the scientists who use it. This looks like an interesting project, I'll email you for more info.

The thing that excites me most (as a realist with a soft spot for anarchy) is the potential for crowdfunding to deliver public goods. One example is a pitch I saw at DjangoCon, som…

Apple is literally preventing lifesaving technology from being deployed into the world. Due to this politically-motivated decision, actual real live human beings are being denied a…

Are women allergic to hot tubs or something? I wasn't aware there was anything particularly masculine about a hot tub.

As an anecdote, most of what I know about the Harry Potter universe comes from reading Elezier Yudkowsky's remix. I've never read the original and only seen two or three of the mov…

I've never met anyone who refers to himself as a brogrammer. Pretty much all I know about the term is what I get from it's construction and this article. I take strong issue with t…