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It's hard to not view this as whining about the failed gentrification of Reddit (especially with the biker bar analogy). I'm struggling to think of any successful social network si…

There's probably not a good way to succinctly prove my capacity for empathy to you, but I think trying to link social grace and empathy is also incorrect in general. Assume for the…

Can you elaborate on why spending time and effort to find offensiveness in things makes sense to you? The concept seems so outlandish to me that I'm not sure how to word the questi…

The arguments to keep building it were almost as stupid as the arguments to stop building it. I recall hateful accusations of "mismanagement" that boiled down to supplying liquor a…

The consistent trend going all the way back to the Payne Fund Studies is that someone somewhere thinks they can show some alarmist correlation between media and behavior. However, …

When are we going to accept the scientific evidence that video games (and movies before them (and books before them)) don't fundamentally change a person's philosophy? Books in par…

I mostly meant anti-regulation. I'm not sure we need strict laws regarding parking, public drinking, loosies, ect. Let alone aggressive enforcement. I think parts of NYC are a good…

As someone who fancies libertarianism but who's wary of its effectiveness in practice, I'm hoping we get to see this impromptu social experiment play out long enough to gather some…

The North Korea link really confuses me. How is a small country like North Korea capable of mounting such a sophisticated attack when they aren't even teaching their computer stude…

Stop buying bullshit narratives against state funded science. Rocket test stands are not limited to a single rocket model. The choice in 2010 was to spend $57m finishing a project …

I sure hope the Feynman lectures from Caltech aren't next. People seem really quick to forget that fundamental science endures and political correctness is fleeting. I wonder what …

I read it differently; "this stunt" is ambiguous in context. In any case, I think you're misunderstanding the nature of the problem. The danger of "doxxing" is that people get over…

If repeating publicly known personal information is a crime, the printers of telephone directories must have really good lawyers.

If I unwittingly hurled innuendo I sincerely apologize and ask you to point it out so I can avoid doing so in the future. However, your other contentions don't make any sense to me…

So $159k - $16k (kickstarter cut) - 738 sticker packs ($2k?) - 216 postcards ($0.2k?) - 51 DVDs ($0.2k?) - production ($6k?) That's still $135k Seems like a pretty decent chunk of …

Are you suggesting "rightwing talk radio and the goldbugs" don't get similar death threats? As far as I can tell they do.

I don't care to conjecture about the frequency or origination of the threats because I don't think there's enough information and, frankly, it's not that important. I can tell you …

Boy am I gonna regret this, I know these are polarizing issues, but please take a moment to consider the credibility of the individuals involved and their respective economic incen…

"If you are able to insert in a publication the name of a nonexistent author in a publication, who will guarantee that even the scientific contents have been examined with care?" R…

I don't think I've ever misread that style (usually the function being called makes it obvious), but it relies on short-circuit evaluation which doesn't carry over to a lot of lang…

Your downvote gripes(a quick check of my profile would show I'm not even capable) are almost as obnoxious as your willful misinterpretation of my my original comment. I never said …

I find something deeply annoying about journalists using pop-psychology to criticize real psychology. Yes, you can probably poke some holes in his quantitative interpretation of ob…

I view bug bounties as more of a conscious nod towards responsible disclosure than anything else. I sincerely doubt anyone could make a competitive living off of bug bounty program…

I know this is a serious site for serious people, but I lost it at the "irate Joe's" explanation.

No, This has been looked at pretty extensively before. Confusingly enough, a lot of the research was done by the creators of BGPmon ( http://bgpmon.netsec.colostate.edu/ - same nam…