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I'm with the author until he says to encode extra information into the URL. If the docs and the site are built well, you should find everything you need while completely ignoring t…

Can anyone acquainted with the hard sciences comment on whether this paper passes even a basic sniff test? The title of the paper and so many references to other psychiatry journal…

Humans evolved for a long time before we understood anything about how our bodies work, so why would a brain have to understand itself to evolve?

The announcement was good enough for pastebin but not their own homepage?

That's quite fluffy, ethereal "bad hire" criteria. Nothing about ability to get the job done, communication with the team, quality of deliverables, reliability, or really anything …

I have two daughters and I would tell them to say forcefully "Get your hand off my waist/leg" so everyone can hear it, and then physically remove his hand from her body. Then it's …

I don't think it's equivalent. Handing out T-shirts that are clearly labeled "unisex" suggests you are trying to accomodate both men and women. Maybe you could accuse someone of ig…

You can have a female founders conference, whose purpose is to uplift women, and allow men to be there as well. True story: I once attended a "women in tech" style conference as a …

It happens outside government too. It happens anytime your higher-level boss tells you: "Yes, I'm on board! You're right, a system like that would help us tremendously in several w…

This sounds more like "We don't negotiate with customers." because even if the customer had been professional and polite about it, their policy is no refunds. Even considering the …

It is nice to read about this in plain language. But, can someone explain what the X and Y axis are meant to represent in the graph?

A useful survival strategy is to focus primarily on what you can control. I occasionally struggle to implement my own advice, however.

If you win in small claims court, what's the process to turn that win into an actual check from the company?

You'd better be sure the objections are inconsequential before you slap the ad-hominem "That Guy" label on someone out of frustration. Sometimes you're so committed to a particular…

Icon consistency is far more important than flat/skewmorphic artistic concerns. For example, my kid has never seen a 3.5" disk, but knows the icon means "Save", probably because it…

I just donated. If you want to fight government abuse of power, you literally have to start somewhere.

You can buy several high quality, factory-made guns at any gun store for the cost of just one 3D printer, so why do you call out 3D printed guns as particularly dangerous? Unless y…

If anyone from Watsi is reading, your auto-replies for Contact Us are still saying this: "Thanks for the message! Our entire team is currently in Nepal and will be slow / unable to…

Watsi wants your credit card number including CVV to simply register for an account. This is before choosing anyone to fund. How about I only provide payment information at "check …

After handling lots of contracts back and forth, my experience is that you avoid adding new conditions to a contract for a large company if you can, but you had better remove anyth…

Elections are not the only place to drive change. I donate to the EFF monthly because I was impressed to see them actively challenging things in court, which in my opinion is far m…

Many people I know, including me, simply need to know that the outcome of the work matters. Shipping product that results in zero feedback is a motivation killer. Even a little cus…

Sometimes they randomly open and close security lines between scanners and metal detectors. To avoid the hassle, I pick the lines that are obviously headed to a metal detector. Whe…

People do this when they feel stress and internal conflict for bending their own morals to do what they think might be best for their country overall. Sort of like the things you m…

There's no rational reason for you to say that about a person you don't know. That's ignorant and textbook prejudice.