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Do you have a link to the study? I'd love to read it.

This is also referred to as "priming" which researchers have repeatedly failed to replicate. See: http://psych.stanford.edu/~michael/papers/Ramscar-Shaoul-Baa...

I have more confidence that Drive is here to stay because of one fact: an entire line of computers (Chromebooks) rely on Drive solely for their storage. At this point, abandoning D…

I have had one too for several years and it's one of the best decisions I've made. It's still holding up quite well and no letters on the keys is great. Though I still, after all t…

I've polled my teenage daughter several times over recent years about this. She barely _talks_ on the phone anymore - texting is FAR and away the most common form of communication.…

Here's a good recent documentary that goes into detail about the famous hot coffee case. It was eye-opening for sure. I never thought that I would going in, but I came away thinkin…

There are trades that get "busted" (i.e. rolled back) every day in the US stock markets. I've had it happen several times. This is part of normal market activity. In my experience …

I wrote BlackBerry Hacks several years ago: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101152 Definitely a lot of work and a worthwhile pursuit.

I had a concussion but other than that I was pretty much fine. The bike handled it pretty well too - new front wheel, new saddle, and new bar type was pretty much all that was requ…

Scary indeed. Here's an image of my helmet after I crashed in a race a couple years ago. Not fun! http://www.flickr.com/photos/davemabe/5220685015/

Tks - that might be enough reason to switch to Android actually.

This is great - but you still have to be in the app to make a phone call (doesn't integrate with the native iPhone phone app well). Does anyone know if the Android version has tigh…

PRs: 5K 14:53, 10K XC: 30:29 all from college. Nothing fancy compared to people I trained with. I've read Once a Runner a long time ago. Training life is similar - it's all consumi…

I don't think they're contradictory at all. As you gain more and more fitness you'll have to work harder to get to the pain. As you experience more pain you become somewhat more co…

I was a competitive runner for many years and trained with some of the best. The difference between great runners and cyclists and everybody else is that they learn to tolerate pai…

I have a subscription based web service that offers monthly and yearly subscription options. I've found that a surprisingly high percentage of the time the annual subscribers simpl…

I agree that statisticians will be more and more in demand as time goes on. I need one right now for a project - if interested email me at my username at gmail.

Here's a very good presentation that describes what HFT is and how it works (and some of the myths): http://www.tradeworx.com/TWX-SEC-2010.pdf

One word: plastics.

Maybe it's time to give these guys a bailout.

The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.