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There's another issue too. It's not just "the iPad is closed, therefore openness is doomed". That would be obviously silly. The problem is that all the powerful forces in our socie…

In MMOs it's easy: go look at the psychology of rewards. Psychologists found that if you rig up an experiment where you take rats and give them a button where they get food when th…

It's definitely too big to be a wolf. The size would be appropriate for a bear, and bears are probably more likely than wolves anyway. It's not quite the right shape for a bear, bu…

I think this is a pretty naive way to look at it. Of course Harvard realizes their MBAs often end up with a duty to maximize shareholder value at any and all costs. Isn't that kind…

I think they're more closely aligned with psychopathy/sociopathy (the actual disorders) than outright "evil". (Of course, psychopathy/sociopathy is probably the closest thing to a …

But women now have to keep wearing make-up in order to "keep up with" gender perception. (Or so one could argue.)

Well, i think we could do a better job of protecting government from corruption than we currently do. It would make a big difference if we had, for instance, publicly funded electi…

That argument is a form of definition-mongering. It's basically "because you can't provide an EXACT line that separates these things there's no separation at all!" But that's plain…

The DMCA is, itself, a racket and was designed right from the start to be.

NASA has some rather particular requirements, though. If their systems fail their spaceships crash and explode. Possibly killing people. It's a much stricter requirement than most …

In my view, contracts can do the "redundancy" thing much better than typing can. It's explicit, it's optional, it's a better guarantee that you're getting what you want, it's more …

Advances in technology have often killed jobs. Actually, advances in technology kill jobs continuously. Like, since the invention of the wheel probably. It's just that technology h…

The other "rule of them" i've heard is that the first 80% of the work takes 80% of your time, but the last 20% of the work takes the second 80% of your time.

Okay, but the school example is bull. I've blown people away with all kinds of stuff, but i've never gotten anything more than an "A" out of it. Of course this is one way in which …

Wow, a bit bitter are we? Well guess what...

The problem is... that's exactly how quacks operate.

They could also, if needed, point out they have a "doomsday machine" ready to go if they were pressed into it by the US.

The whole point is that there's more to languages than just "technical correctness". Lisp is great technically and theoretically, but in other respects it is quite a ways behind (f…

If you did, indeed, see the talk then i think you missed the point.

Try listening to Matz talk about his experience with Lisp and (subsequently) his inspiration to make Ruby. Basically, he said Lisp sounded great in theory... but actually when you …

Well, first we have to define what exactly we're talking about: physical sex, mental sex, behavioral sex, or some sort of combination. Since it wasn't spelled out i'm just assuming…

What if my soul was androgynous from the start, and it's my body/"gender" that i'm bringing into line with my soul rather than the other way around? I mean, that's the other option…

Awwe, a "wtf" option would ruin the whole thing :P (Smooth, by the way ^_^)

Yes, i did indeed register for this poll. I've been lurking here for a while, just never found a thread/poll i really wanted to participate in. Since i'm a bit of a minority i felt…

In MY opinion--mine only, can't speak for anyone else--i think "other" is fine if you don't want to include a big list of stuff. "Other" and "transgender" is probably also fine, bu…