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I need to clarify: * Evidence doesn't mean prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Also, given the sorts of arguments in other matters in the public sphere, and the numbers of adherents, …

For all RMS knows, this advice could be alexey's way of manipulating him into working against what he values. If alexey is honest in his sincerity, he could reiterate his points mo…

The report is Media Piracy in Emerging Economies , website at http://piracy.ssrc.org/ where the pdf is available under a "Consumer’s Dilemma" license.

A Google engineer should not expect to get a helpful response when he asks the Google search engine for advice on building a better Google.

The qualitative and quantitative improvements from the flynn effect and the population increase reflected back on humanity as a whole, not the creators of the industrial revolution…

Confusions like this are the reason why I favor the intelligence explosion flavour of the singularity ( http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools ) -- there's no confusion as to whe…

FTR: Lichess does this, visit http://lichess.org/friend

This is nice. I was a little saddened that the replay and analyse option after games did not actually analyse games, but with the export I can download the games into my favourite …

Shouldn't there be a debate about the technical merits of the idea? I want my libraries and tools to make unwise things hard to do, and the wise easy and obvious. It's a framing is…

The first 144 digits of the fractional part of pi sum to 666.

The solution seems obvious now, but the problem had to be framed that way to get it. I can only speak for myself, but this had not occurred to me before reading the article. I susp…

It's really annoying how all the pictures are on an angle.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yzu0w5xnmkk

Anyone who wants to mirror can try downloading the video from http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth....

It was too long. For instance, I missed that quote which I would have replied to: What exactly is meant by letting the system fall apart? The economy is the system that keeps you f…

I'm not surprised by some of the observations. Windows software, being mainly closed source, has forced the platform to address compatibility and exotic configuration problems more…

The ethical concerns about the Milgram experiment are too varied to go into much detail here (if you're interested, http://books.google.com/books?id=U44OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193 ) but the…