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I think of this as analogous to the way computers have increased productivity at work. It's not necessarily that you get your work done faster, it's that you can have a better prod…

Why not?

I find it strange that you refer to comments starting with # as Ruby-style comments.

If you haven't quit the browser in awhile, this can happen. The good news is that in Chrome you can kill just the flash plugin without losing the rest of your browsing session (I u…

I'm not sure how Chrome's treatment of custom search engines differs from Firefox's. In Chrome, you can associate a URL with a keyword so that when you type "keyword query" into th…

Talking publicly about that paper is why David Nutt was fired last year from his post as technical chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in the UK. I suspect that's …

IKEA does not have to be "in the philanthropic business" to benefit the countries in which they have operations. The fact that they make a profit does not preclude other people (th…