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I'm not interested in individual employees but to my ear the push inside Mozilla to deprecate HTTP in Firefox sounds like it could be part of an overarching NSA agenda to make web-…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing:_The_Science_of_T... an epic science book which attempts to grapple with some of these questions. from the Wikipedia page: "Taylor assert…

You were under a false impression if you're referring to a single recreational dose (approx 120mg) taken once or even twice a weekend. The studies on animals that are often pointed…

To me, just thinking philosophically about what you described, it sounds problematic even in your best case wouldn't you agree ? I mean lets say that you do somehow manage to convi…

sigh This is one of the problems that comes with trying to map these traditions into our common English vernacular. We end up inventing new words (like capital Self vs lowercase se…

And then Buddha arrived on the scene and argued that the Hindu concept of Self (Atman) doesn't even exist. The Buddha argued that no permanent, unchanging, "Self" can be found. All…

I think what we need is "basic commodities" in terms of foodstuffs that a person could live off of, for example: a 40lb bag of rice, lentils, 3 different kinds of beans, corn meal,…

* all participants retain 100% ownership of all digital assets produced during the hackathon ^ if that's included then it some kind of a scam IMHO. Why would an team want to progra…

“Entanglement is the fabric of space-time,” Could this also be rephrased as "separation is illusion" ?

certainly there will always be alternative browsers, but since they would be used by a small minority the censors would effectively have the ability to determine which publishers a…

I view this as an attempt by various power brokers to subvert the power of the World Wide Web by attacking it's decentralized nature. In the beginning (like now) it'll be relativel…

One piece of advice is to try to build something awesome that you can share with the world.

> Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. Seaweed an even more potent source of iodine, and th…

Why not let the data make the technology choices for you ? The way I go about making technology choices is by examining the data that I'll be working with in conjunction the data a…

an example would be a data-mining project where the goal is to uncover interesting subsets of data within larger public datasets which may have business value while also attempting…

The way I think about it is.. post graduate work. In most of the natural sciences if you expect to be able to secure a decent job in the private sector after you complete school yo…

the ecosystem is there, I think you're confused... the libraries work, this is the best runtime environment for a Ruby on Rails app.. which is Ruby's killer app..

well you've gotta admit at least that Microsoft did in fact suck :) For me.. cyberpunk was cool because of Neil Stephenson, William Gibson, and uhh ShadowRun.. Somehow this meshed …

I'm 33. I graduated from highschool in 2000. Back then we had something called 'LAN parties' which were off-campus adhoc gatherings of nerds who would haul their desktop PCs around…

It puts her in a stressful situation because now she has to contemplate things like going into debt while she takes the time to secure another job. Or if she doesn't have any credi…

I suppose it depends on what the word 'rape' is to you. To me it is a word in the English vernacular which has a certain meaning to everyday people. To me preserving that lexical m…

How is it forced sex if he/she can simply quit and then go get another job ? I mean I think that it's sexual harassment and a horrendous crime, but it's not the same thing as rape.…