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Hawkins? You mean Hawking?

Eh? Markov chain? Just asking.

Serious question: why hasn't the idea been aggressively discredited then? That would be a good thing, wouldn't it?

Hmm. Interesting. So there is absolutely no basis to a reptilian brain component thingie?

Well a reptilian brain is what he means :) Aren't reptiles common ancestors?

People do present it or use it as a scientific fact.

How is it a widely-held theory? It hasn't stood up to scrutiny, at least any well documented tests. It is sorta misleading, in fact, because a lot of good authors and speakers assu…

You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba... Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well rec…

It would be hilarious if it wasn't sad.

So Larry Wall is a black metal artist in his spare time? kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities, values aside, each one; die sheep! die to reverse the system you accept (reject, …

Seconded. In fact, most if not all apps let you login upon sign-up instantly deferring the e-mail verification to anytime in the next 15 days .

Within the bounds of that article, the author's points are fairly valid. I mean he hasn't emphasized piggybacking as the one ring to rule them all . For a new startup these are goo…

Off topic, but did they get an engineer to write the content? "Thanks to its world-renowned, tri-core, wafer thin CPU with full chocolate coverage." If this is intentional sarcasm …

The only reason people don't exercise is because they don't. I don't know of a genuine reason to not be able to spare 20 minutes a day. If you can do nothing else, run for 10 minut…

Besides the fact that the author is clearly an 'API-go-to-guy' (ex-Twilio, ex-IFTTT so I'm sure he knows his stuff!) I wonder if this is also because of the ecosystem which is OK w…

Good Sir! That's the fuckin' funniest thing I've read in a while.

This is just bad product experience. They're gonna have a nightmare marketing it the next time around.

Beautiful eulogy. Compels me to read more about the person.

... because it is fun to paint everything with the same brush?

... and why would they do that?

Also relevant, Cisco estimates this as a $14.4 trillion industry: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-possibilities-of-the-interne...