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The Camel Has Two Humps was not successfully replicated. The authors presented http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf in 2008: "Two years ago we appeared to have discovered…

> Eventually, one day, you're trying to board a plane and you get denied because you've been known to disseminate "false or misleading information". That's absurd. How do you pictu…

It's important to remember that the ads you're shown on Youtube videos are controlled by the channel owner, not by Google. Youtube itself doesn't have much control over how many ad…

Between them, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt hold a majority of Google shareholders' voting power (about 2/3 is what I usually hear). I won't link anything because I don…

Do you have multiple Google accounts? If you're signed in to one you don't use for things, that will cripple Now, because it won't have all the data it needs to do things. Same pro…

Sure, but recognizing a picture of one of your friends is a matter of searching O(100) people. Recognizing a picture of any Facebook user is a matter of searching O(100 million) pe…

Objectively? That's a dangerous word; I hope you've got a better argument than this one. Hard drives are being rapidly replaced by SSDs, so their speed just jumped _way_ up (especi…

> We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace,…

> With a standard combination lock all I have to tell someone is the combination I don't think that's fair. The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive. "6…

Sure, but what indication is there that the comment is referring to her race?

> Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist How so?

A small bit of evidence to the contrary: http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee : 35,566 subscribers http://www.reddit.com/r/Wicked_edge : 26,612 subscribers

> I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. If you haven't read The New Geography of Jobs, I highly recommend it. It gives an excellent explan…

My bad. Fixed.

I knew about Google's Ads Preferences page ( http://google.com/ads/preferences ), which lists the interests Google has inferred for me. This article taught me about the BlueKai Reg…

More detail here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

Don't worry, I don't think there's any controversy there. Google is quite conservative, engineering-wise.

I think the fact that it's a positive review from MG Siegler means it's objective - since he's known to dislike Android devices. A negative review wouldn't necessarily be not objec…

> If the scalpers didn't exist, the eventual ticket-holders would still be able to purchase from the original vendor. A lot of them wouldn't, though. If the scalpers sell the ticke…

If I'm a person who's willing to pay above face value for a ticket but didn't get in line fast enough, the scalpers provide tremendous value to me.

Nobody uses "tar baby" as a slur in America. It's like "niggardly" - ignorant people use an incorrect interpretation to try to shut down people they don't like.

From the paper ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ), page 5-6: "Shalvi et al. (2011a) asked participants to roll a die under a paper cup with a small…

In the paper in question ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ), it does. Chi-square test shows p<0.01 and p=0.02 for significance for the high and low…

Unfortunately, the paper ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is bec…

The dichotomy exists regardless of your not acknowledging it, though. I have _had_ these conversations and made these comparisons. My current girlfriend and I switched from condoms…