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Christopher Reeve delivering the line "Truth, Justice and the American Way" as Super Man is one of the defining memories of my childhood. I worry that once Americans become cynical…

Actually population growth all over the wold is slowing down. China is already at almost neutral and growth is even slowing in India and Africa. And a static or shrinking populatio…

Cult phenomenon? When I was a teenager me and my friends called it "rolling in the mud" Often a lot of us kids were very nervous going to clubs and quite scared to talk to girls. S…

There was a study which pointed out that this only works if you have self confidence, then you can brainwash yourself with affirmations like those. But if you are insecure, then af…

... I'm going to go ahead and pretend that was intentional... yeah I totally meant to write ironing, not ironic...

This is a brain chemistry self-hack, and I am not sure it's a good thing. Also I know a few people who are neither Buddhists nor super smart but have managed to perform this self-h…

Mutters to self: I can't believe I'm explaining jokes on the Internet.. sigh Unless ojbyrne was being ironing, as in, what about dictatorial rule is un-American?

There are a lot of peoples blogs that are quoted on Hacker News that have a lot better content than Jeff Atwood, but are not as well written or presented as Jeff Atwoods pieces. I …

I'd guess the percentage of approaches considered "quacky" which are later proven to work, is fairly constant over the ages. I'd also guess 80/20.

eBay is the only on that list not dominated by hackers. Yes even Larry Ellison is a hacker, from Wikipedia: During the 1970s, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his proje…

I've never met him person, but from the videos I've seen it is pretty obvious the man is pretty far on the aspie spectrum. Perhaps with massive intervention early on he could have …

Exactly. The grandparent's comment is anything but relevant. While I do agree with it, it is clear it has nothing do with this.

Am I am saddened that I am no longer surprised that this is happening.

Mars has a lot less sun and atmosphere then the Earth, so terraforming it would involve a large investment in greenhouses and nuclear energy. But Venus has an excess of sun and hea…

I think education, wealth, urbanization, the pill, the boob tube, condoms, all the reasons for below replacement fertility can be seen as a virus which attack the reproductive syst…

It is one of the oldest jokes on the internets. This September will never end.

50 +/- 50 or so years from now, maybe.

I really do believe the next big disruptor (on the scale of something like space travel or the internet) is going to be in our ability to harness brain power to directly manipulate…

Instead Universities should also help the student become full rounded Full roundedness is a financial luxury, of concern only to those who are financial at least relatively well of…

reddit is tolerable if you unsubscribe from all popular reddits, especially the front page, and subscribe only to niche reddits with a small following. If any one of those sub-redd…

I trust the people who care already know about distcc on Linux and Incredibuild on Windows, but I thought I'd mention them just in case.

Intel predicted the end of Moore's Law would come with 16 nanometer manufacturing processes and 5 nanometer gates, due to quantum tunnelling.

Well that's exactly my criticism: most of the author's objections boil down to "it's hard" No, common English use of "it's hard" means something completely different from CS "hard"…

I think his point was that we can't code the fundamentals because those require linear time protein folding. And protein folding is one of those hard CS problems.