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First thought I had as well. Aren't quarks matter too?

I still think the key is raising the collective intelligence. Not that smart people are always productive, but they are capable of being so. So long as the average human is just ba…

Nothing that went from female to male?

Evolution doesn't move fast enough for any technology to be relevant to the discussion of how this works.

Not a downvoter, but it doesn't quite work. Google isn't against open-source. It's somewhat related, but not exactly.

Evolution was so last eon. We've got CRISPR now. :D

You know that fish is a type of meat, right?

It's just a blog post about what he has observed as a common problem with teams falling behind. I think it's a little much to call it worthless. Excessive focus on unimportant deta…

At first, I only saw one ad when I went there (just now). I forgot I had my adblocker on. Then, I tried to load the page again and saw "Haaretz.com is now inaccessible to visitors …

Capitalism sometimes rewards those who provide value, but more often than not has no problem rewarding people for spouting self-righteousness. If you think that everyone who gets r…

Right. As someone who has torn apart an engine before I was constantly thinking "where are those parts going?" "Are they just throwing them on the floor?"

Targeted ads. They look like interesting articles but then when you get there it's just a few facts and then more ads. You end up making somebody money from ad clicks but never fin…

It's a real problem. Anecdotally, I've talked to several people struggling to stop clicking on ads so they can keep getting things done. I struggle with it sometimes as well.

Oh man. About 10 feet behind my chair is where another department likes to have their meetings. And for whatever reason, they also like to stand there and swap gossip about all the…

"Why on earth is this a test for autism?" I agree. There is a clear gender difference in seeing color [1][2][3][4]. The use of colors here would invalidate the test for autism, at …

I am pretty sure he was referring to Buzzfeed's clickbait titles. They are pretty famous for it so it's a fair comparison.

I have been having a lot of fun playing this game with lots of others here on Hacker news. Some suggestions: 1) Make the levels more obvious. It's not clear why players are stronge…

I've been trying to figure out how people could see farther than me! HA, now I know

Like those privacy policies you get from your credit card companies: "Do we share your personal information with other companies? Yes. Is there anything you can do about it? No." I…

I still want one that folds my laundry.

So many of these problems go away if we just enforce higher quality (less annoying) ads.

There also would need to be a motivating factor. US doesn't have any reason to want to take over Canada.

Here I thought it was a post on the singularity. It might be ironic if all the AI starts running into all sorts of 2038 bugs and this ends up being a huge issue.

For what it's worth 314 Action is more about supporting 4 issues: http://www.314action.org/issues/ The headline is a little misleading, but this isn't actually a "support scientist…

For what it's worth, I was taught to sit in the intersection when making a left turn in driver's ed. Maybe it's an east west thing, but here is a video of a guy complaining about p…