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Check out Theranos on Glassdoor starting on page 4. The insider scoop seems to be that it's a horror show.

The more serious problem with these studies is that the definition of sexual assault is often unclear and constantly changing. What's classified as sexual assault by some definitio…

Certainly that's the case in crowded industries like personal electronics manufacturing, but there's plenty of room for companies with new technologies or new markets (e.g. DJI wit…

I'm surprised by the dearth of companies with manufactured products, especially since this is an international list. All I see are the 6 listed as "hardware" + SpaceX. Edit: plus T…

Yes, but I also worry about a bunch of theorists writing substandard code that is unreadable and unmaintainable.

It's also used heavily within Google. I think that a lot of companies used to have internal tools like IPython, but now IPython/Jupyter has surpassed them all. Hooray for OSS.

Can anyone comment on current pros and cons of Havok vs PhysX (which was open-sourced recently by NVIDIA)?

I think the majority of men in my demographic like to do it. And in my experience, about half of the girls are into it, the other half are indifferent.

I find American porn to be crude and artificial. Russian porn is much better; it just shows attractive people having sex with each other and enjoying it. Wonder what that says abou…

The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials". I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn. Any grecian urns w…

Google's stock doesn't seem to be reacting too badly to the ad-blocking developments, so maybe investors know something OP doesn't.

Peter Thiel in Zero to One: "Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school"

Interesting point regarding gender ratios. It's a good thing prostitution is legal and widespread in Germany.

Uber and other companies (including Google) have been hiring a lot of robotics faculty as well as newly-minted PhDs. This is a good thing for robotics research. There's generally a…

Something's gotta go to free up some cash for Intel's $300M diversity initiative.

I've only read the abstract, but it looks like the actual effect isn't huge. People with 10 hospitalizations scored lower by .37 SD = 6 iq points.

True, but whether someone self-identifies as Jewish depends on exactly how you ask him. To compare the Jewish representation in the US population, college X, and college Y, it's im…

I'm skeptical of the Jewish statistics, which are allegedly based on Hillel documents. Is Harvard really 25% Jewish? Or is that the fraction of domestic students who have some (pos…

Julia is an extremely ambitious project -- more so than most other languages being developed now, due to the number of things they're trying to do, and the novelty of Julia relativ…

I think the idea is that the lower n-1 rows each have height (n-1)ε (by spreading them out horizontally), and at the top there's a big triangle with side length 1+(n-1)ε

Not surprising to me. I've participated in admissions committees (for a graduate program) and hiring committees (for new faculty) at a top US STEM program, and women do get a signi…