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What about wintertime, Mr Franklin? Btw, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise" now has a citation: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/02/circadian-clock-…

Asking somebody not to be mean seems reasonable but he only gets mean after he has already "lost it". He then unfailingly perceives the other guy as the mean one and himself as the…

And surely Frodo's failure implies also that the eagle plan could not have worked: it did not include Gollum

Yes! I have enjoyed many novels. But people (including me) are learning English from communicating on the web. And children are learning English from playing videogames i.e. as a b…

>She isn't saying that people should stay off adderall Indeed. >And saying that "all people who abuse drugs do so because of personality problems" is obviously quite ignorant Nah. …

>She had a substance abuse problem This is true. However, a lot of people will take away the message 'stay off adderall' whereas (1) some people apparently benefit from it, (2) som…

An enormous and sophisticated 'tool chain'. Surely it could never be implemented in a one-day-to-be-invented universal fabricator? One is reminded of those 19th C ppl who thought r…

That sounds to me like a great idea and an effective way of managing risk. I notice that online speed dating services are available also, which might work as a way of reducing risk…

This suggests to me that a sensible business model would be for the man to pay to have his profile pitched to a given woman. This would reflect the IRL risk of asking for a date.

Women do share risk but in a different way -- a woman risks emotional attachment and pregnancy with the guy moving on to another partner

I don't think people appreciate how intractable a problem bullying is. For instance, bullying is qualitatively indistinguishable from teasing, which is regarded by most as part of …

I agree that people usually misinterpret their experiences where psychedelics and religion are concerned. However it's worth noting that in striving to create and discover interest…

Problem is not owning stuff per se but getting attached to it

I'm no economist but I wonder if the Nordic model is sustainable without external innovation and cheap labour (going on in countries like the USA and China respectively -- who perh…

Indeed. Everyone who owned a particular model of computer had the same BASIC and could swap programs/listings. Also, it was immediately available from when the computer was switche…

Part of the problem is that we mostly don't know how good managers do what they do (and they don't either). Their knowledge is tacit. And we have to make a tacit judgement when hir…

Combine driverless cars with electric motors. Add a few driver-free high speed tunnels which connect to the existing road network (I assume tunnelling will eventually be cheaper th…

There's a kind of emotional economy that nerds don't tune into. To those who aren't strong enough to resist participating in this collective exchange, it seems like the nerd is che…

Coffee withdrawal headaches and tiredness can be reduced by taking caffeine pills (approx 50mg per day for five days).

Goals don't work because the process of achieving or creating anything valuable is unpredictable. It's a discovery. And its importance may not be immediately apparent. That's why y…

No no no. This is unkind. 'Finish everything.' Everything? No way. Abandon stuff which is unfruitful or superseded or published. Just don't abandon stuff lightly: have a good expla…