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You say "gatekeeping device" like it is negative. All companies I have worked for have had a system of gatekeeping that includes things like university qualifications. I don't see …

White Light is actually a mix of colours, the rainbow. You can split it into parts with a glass prism, or in good weather a sprinkler? Light is a bit like a wave through the air an…

In the discussing the "acid rain scare" and Scandinavia, the situation with fish and lakes there is worthwhile understanding. I did a quick google, but my searching is probably no …

building a lane of high speed urban transport is really expensive. And a rail lane has 50 times the passenger capacity of a private motor vehicle lane. So if the problem is linking…

Some say other things: > If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook-...

Let's imagine you care about educational outcomes and child poverty, what kinds of things would help? Certainly free and easy access to sex education, contraception and abortion is…

> LaMattina counters that pricing should be based not on R&D costs but on the value a drug delivers to patients. I love this line. We should do it for oxygen. Your bill is pretty h…

Amazon will sell you audio files, they won't sell them to me. I live in the wrong country. Amazon will sell me a CD at the same price you pay, plus shipping. Apple will sell me aud…

The thing you watch in the living room will increasingly be connected to the internet, and be able to function interactively. In the kitchen appliances will increasingly be connect…

ReST shows that a person can invent a technical term, write a long dissertation on what it means, clarify any ongoing misconceptions on the web, and have people use the word to mea…

My ideological fairy tale is that hiring the most qualified person leads to better outcomes. My reading of this analysis is that they compared 100% male boards, to ones with at lea…

I would go a slightly lower temperature than sea level boiling point.

I think you put hot water in. Creating really nice steamed milk is more difficult than creating an intense coffee liquid that will I enjoy.

> operation of these plants that are vital for steady, dependable electricity supply Maybe. http://theconversation.com/baseload-power-is-a-myth-even-int...

Solar usually generates the most supply when there is the most demand, when the air conditioners are on in summer. It think this is a pricing problem. I run my dishwasher in the mi…

It seems to me that all you need to gain above average return is to identify someone who will accept below average returns. For a long time US shares that paid high dividends were …

What about the other half of the uncertainty? The company does not know how much revenue each of those ideas will deliver.

People would work it out... In Sydney, we have always had daycare next to home or work, in San Francisco I put the kids in a bike trailer. The number one thing that worries me abou…

> life is better when I separate whatever holds the state from whatever has the behavior If you are not doing what is traditionally taught as OO, and you are doing something better…

Perhaps the male monkeys are brought up differently (I bet they are), and some part of the difference is the mothers rearing style (perhaps from culture or genetics).

I want to quote http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... : > I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. If …

Universities can put their whole course online for free and still charge $30K per year because you are paying for credentials or something. Community colleges are quite cheap. $46 …

Eventually, software will handle that situation better than any human. In the video you show 2 out of 3 affected cars crashed. In an automated car world eventually 0 out of 3 cars …

> We lost the fight with viruses a decade ago. If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedat…

Software for in-house use might be fine. Bureaucracy reduces efficiency. The more organizationally significant the software the worse risk there is. Processes and procedures are th…