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By this line of reasoning, shouldn't there be a lot of unattractive women flocking to tech?

"Activism Or Escapism: Making Sense of 21st Century Communes" by M. Jade Aguilar has a lot of references. Text seems to be paywalled, but maybe you can find what you need via Googl…

> there is no way to get your documents for backup/archival purposes https://myaccount.google.com/privacy#takeout

Ok, so it's your first time in, say, Anchorage. How would you use Facebook to find interesting app-guided walks or tours, or a story told using RL locations?

A platform to connect information / stories / images / video / audio to locations. There are thousands of small, mostly subsidized one-off projects but no general platform for ever…

a) You don't have to type Russian characters. There's a little switch that lets you input everything in English transliteration. b) There's an explanation right at the beginning on…

You can switch your country settings from Amazon US to Amazon DE and back with no ill effects. I did it several times. You get to keep all Kindle books you bought in both countries…

More like the last 50 or 60 years: "the programming occupation will become extinct (through the further development of self-programming techniques)" (Herbert A. Simon, 1961, and th…

To save you time: Print books offer a superior tactile and typographical experience. You can view them more easily in a bookshelf. DRM is bad. All of which has been said over and o…

Germany is an exception because there is an actual law that says you're liable if someone else uses your wifi for shady purposes. That's why our routers are password protected out …

How exactly is that different from the usual publishers' practice of sending early copies of the book to a ton of reviewers and ask them to, well, review it in newspapers and magaz…

"smart people", noun phrase: People who work in computer science or mathematics.

A variation that actually works as a game: Name the bigger number, but if your number >= double your opponent's number, you lose. 0 and 1 are off limits.

The Flow is as far from waterproof as it gets. It's Neoprene, which means you won't mind getting wet, in fact you'll probably enjoy it. But you'll definitely get wet.

Doesn't a three bedroom apartment actually have four rooms, three of them bedrooms? In Berlin "Dreizimmerwohnung" means that there are three rooms, period. So maybe your calculatio…

Is there a word for letting the world know how great you are by not-so-cleverly disguising your greatness as a shortcoming? There should be. I need it every day. (Sorry to bother y…

Snow Crash was published in 1992, not in 1975. Still, this dude got it already. Edit: Sorry, it's probably just a formatting problem and you were referring to The Shockwave Rider.

From what I understand, mustard gas isn't hard to make at all. ("There are several routes to this compound, none of which require sophisticated technology and/or special materials.…

This seems rather untrue. "In Nederland worden steeds vaker antidepressiva voorgeschreven. In 2007 kregen 937.000 mensen in totaal 6,7 miljoen recepten tegen depressie voorgeschrev…

I run several twitterbots. The ones that autofollow back used to attract large numbers of spammers (until I fixed that). The others don't. I guess the usual spam strategy is "follo…

This is relevant for US readers only. Most countries do not usually fortify juices, milk or yogurt. I don't know about the situation in Singapore (where the study's participants li…

Nothing says "or boyfriend/husband" like a domain that ends in -wives.com.

If I followed this advice, my new full-time, ex-procrastination activity would transform into hard work, and I would seek relief in procrastination - probably doing exactly the thi…