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I'm sure hobbyists with liberal arts majors and liberal arts majors with computer science minors can both be very good developers and leaders, but to really be "by far the sharpest…

This is not actually that true. Germany is 7x as dense as the US, but Germany is only 5.9x as dense as the contiguous US. About a third of the contiguous US has almost no people re…

So, formalizing the existing arrangement?

They don't impact the ability of the reader to eventually understand the message, but they do decrease the speed at which you can do so if you read any faster than purely phonetica…

Good article on Ancient Greek IQ: http://www.unz.com/akarlin/ancient-greeks-not-geniuses/

In the linked article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heck_cattle (an attempt to breed back aurochs), this is amusing: "Derek Gow, a British conservationist who operates a rare breed…

Side note: quick research seems to indicate that it may not actually be Genghis Khan who is the male-line ancestor of all those men, but a common ancestor of his and the rest of hi…

For the lazy, murders per death by cop, based on those numbers: Germany: 83 California: 17 Murders per capita: Germany: 1/124,000 California: 1/23,000 So California's murder rate i…

This is very interesting. I'm currently a little bit of the way through solving some of the problems solved by Relay using an existing open source stack, and I'm curious if anyone …

This was great until he started confusing sex with porn.

I used to work at a retail outfit that used the really old-fashioned credit card system involving carbon paper slips and handwritten amounts, which would be entered into a credit c…

As a junior at a university outside Boston who has dealt with the same questions, here's my advice: Personally (this may not be you), I would say drop the lab job unless you're rea…