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Having spent some time in the academia sausage factory, I think this guy is fairly close to the mark. A lot of time and effort is consumed simply writing grants and genuflecting fo…

"Parasite" may be an unkind word for them, but there are certainly people who produce nothing but expect to be kept in a high standard of living at the expense of those who are pro…

The problem with asking a financial advisor is finding a good one. By the time you've learned enough to know the good from the bad, you may as well DIY and save the fees. Although,…

I'm not that other guy, but my advice: There's no substitute for doing your own reading and research. Some good authors to start with are John Bogle, Larry Swedroe, Rick Ferri, Pet…

I think the uncertainties inherent in writing software that depends on many other complex libraries/frameworks will tend to discourage strong liability for bugs. The average Win32 …

6. You don't have a Twitter Account Seriously? This would never in a million years have crossed my mind as a reason to avoid using something.

Although it has little recent activity and could be bitrotted to uselessness, there is a standalone acme package for various other systems: http://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/

Bruce Schneier wrote an excellent article on PKI risks ( http://www.schneier.com/paper-pki-ft.txt ). Should be interesting to see how many of those are addressed as this scheme com…

Problem is, precious metals have an expected return of 0%. One gold bar sitting on a shelf is still one gold bar ten years later. Commodities are not necessarily a bad idea to own …

I know a guy who's really, really into football. Watches hours of games every other night or so, has a "fantasy" team that he's constantly fretting over and checking online stats f…

Not all index methodologies are created equal, the way that Russell handles periodic reconstitution is particularly susceptible to front running. Other indexing methods are not as …

I think "godisnowhere" is more an example of a straight-up badly chosen name (identifiers should not be complete sentences) rather than a case where caps are better than lowercase.…

It's far from clear that the things you list couldn't have been developed without government intervention. Unfortunately, without an alternate fork of reality to try the experiment…

The benefit of the IRL approach is that it gives you an immediate opportunity to show positive qualities which don't always carry over very well into a dating website profile -- an…

Treasurys are "safe" in the sense that the US will never default, since the government can simply print dollars as needed to cover the debt. So yes, you're guaranteed to get your 1…

You might find JWZ's experiences interesting: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/ Then again, it might scare you off. Maybe it's just that CA is particularly bad, I dunno.

Don't these societal conditions apply to "good" and "bad" software developers alike? All other things being equal, if you're successful and somebody else fails (selling to the same…

It bugs me when stuff like that is described as "xenophobia". It's possible to dislike something (or have a preference for the alternative) without fearing it. Even when the basis …

So, just curious; where's the dividing line between "poor government schlub just doing his job" and "Nazi prison guard who knew he was doing evil", assuming you'd agree the Nazi gu…

Designs are easily copied, physical widgets are not (until we get nano-replicators anyway). Innovations in design and manufacturing tend to dovetail and drive each other. Doing bot…

This observation is hardly new, but computer/tech stuff tends to attract the kind of people who will spend hours delving into the minutiae of an abstract system but don't care to s…

I'll agree on one thing, there's a very strong need for kids and teens to get a better understanding of personal finance. Although it's probably a lot more effective coming from pa…

I'm sure it had nothing to do with racking up an average of $10-20k in credit card debt and taking out highly leveraged mortgages with the assumption that ever-increasing real esta…

I'm amused how the snarky, content-free comment critical of Bush gets upvoted, while this snarky yet entirely correct response is downvoted. I think some people here don't grasp th…

People who save nothing until 30 likely have poor money management habits, and are in for a rough ride no matter what the expected return of the stock market is.