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> Investing is the science and art of placing money where it does the most good Err, no it isn't. It's the science and art of placing money where it will grow the most. That is nei…

I like how this meshes with Cal Newport's ideas on procrastination. As I understand it, he views procrastination as the mind's natural tendency to avoid things it doesn't trust: th…

I would argue that a portion of that is simply the way you view things. I would also argue that you could eek out control like the method by which you choose to meet your deadlines…

That link makes the unfounded assumption that the poor choose to be poor. If you assume that the poor choose to be poor, then it is easy to see that there are situations in which i…

I disagree, I'd vastly prefer a good episode 3 than an early episode 3. Valve has always sacrificed time for quality, and it's the sacrifice that allows them to be great.

Citation? Obviously healthcare works on some level, else life expectancy wouldn't be going up.

But easily revised to "Do you want to come with us?" Not that I particularly think the rules are inviolable. I see them as guidelines: if you're using the passive voice then make s…

Knowledgable readers who care will likely know both standards; at that point it's a matter of consistency (or, at the very least, never do something that breaks both sets of rules)…

Or, more likely, coming from privileged families.

"There are dozens of disciplines where virtually every single scientific consensus in the entire field has been overturned." You seem to be arguing that since mankind once thought …

Are you really arguing that the marginal value of an extra dollar is more for a billionaire than for a college student who eats ramen?

I agree with both of you. I'm not entirely sure where that leaves me. Conflicted. On the one hand I fully agree that these markets are kind of silly and incentivize dickish behavio…

To be fair... money has different value to different people. I doubt any billionaires would care to waste 10 minutes of other people's time to save much money, because money doesn'…

So with a Full boeing 747 (probably a large overestimate), that's about 366 people (with wikipedia as source). At 10 minutes you're wasting 61 man hours (did I make a mistake? That…

I've always found the best way to keep good posture is to put my monitor high up so that I have to sit up straight to be at that perfect eye-level location. If my monitor is too lo…

I don't know off the top of my head. However, I can think of two very simple reasons pretty quickly. Reason #1: future favors, tit-for-tat types of responses. If I help a friend ou…

"From Charles Darwin on, evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain self-sacrificing behavior." I had trouble reading beyond that line, since it's simply false. A quick read…

But isn't the purpose of cross-validation to avoid over-fitting and cherry-picking? Asked another way: how does you argument specifically single out Eureqa, instead of all of machi…

Except that it does. I'm not too familiar with the application itself, however I know the original research worked by finding pareto optimums based on the predictive power and the …

He was killed in Pakistan, if I heard correctly.

Ok, I won't. :D

"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political article…

This is also mentioned in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (which I haven't read in a while, so bear with me). When one of his English students complains she's stuck and…