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I think part of what she's saying is that currently, fame is implicitly or explicitly the goal and standard by which scientists are evaluated, but that it shouldn't be. A lot of co…

Exactly the point of the author (who I know). Not just cliquish, though, but faddish and full of misattribution of credit. I agree that all of society is susceptible to this. I thi…

Not really disagreeing with you, but your conclusion is almost necessarily true, which says something about Strategy 1. One thing on my mind lately is how often people convert from…

Discussions like this always seem a little strange. Sure, they're important, but taken out of context they're counterproductive and even harmful. This is the problem: what is the a…

Cool take on things, but not really fundamentally new as an explanation of evolution of cooperative traits. Models involving reputation and punishment have been around for awhile. …

You brought a smile to my face. I came here to post this same point. The piece is kind of making a basic fundamental mistake in measurement, assuming that all variability is meanin…

Without meaning to pick on T-Mobile, the stories I'm hearing here, including yours, lead me to believe that T-Mobile is liable for damages. As in, they didn't take reasonable preca…

I agree with you, although also agree with another poster that net neutrality is still important, mostly because of interoperability reasons. However, you're also bringing up an is…

Here's what I've started to see as my problems: I'm very good at identifying needs, in the sense of "here's a fundamental problem, and here's some ways of addressing that problem."…

I do research in the behavioral sciences. I've published a little on analysis of neural activity, although it's not my area of specialty, but I do specialize in analyses that are c…

I don't agree with the idea that the value of bitcoin was always to evade taxes and launder money. Maybe that's a primary motive for many, but I don't think that constitutes the va…

It's difficult to really say for certain what's going on. The adjustments I'm sure are very crude compared to what case assignment decisions are actually based on, for example, so …

Thanks. This is helpful. I guess part of what I'm wondering is how much Kotlin interfaces compare to Scala traits in the sense explained here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scala/T…

I have nothing against Kotlin. It seems to be coming out of nowhere to surpass more "tested" languages for lack of a better way of putting it, but as I'm reading about it I can tru…

I lived not too far from where Red Delicious was originally bred, and I can say from personal experience the original Red Delicious is not the Red Delicious that is typically sold …

I'm confused about this. I'm hurried at the moment, but this seems to a bill that orders tech companies to provide a solution to encryption without having a backdoor? Isn't this li…

So... my first reaction to your comment was "why don't they just turn this into an actual auction, with no price limits? This seems like such a good solution that I feel like I mus…

Capitalism IMHO isn't the problem, the problem is misregulation--either too much regulation, not enough, or regulation in the wrong places. Capitalism works great as long as certai…

I think the dynamics are different in each case, but my guess is in most cases, the widowing event is one that is predictable, especially through chronic illness. Chronic illness i…

This is one of the great unrecognized problems with the economy at the moment. I'm not so sure about engineering, but it's created all sorts of monopolies in health care that have …

This is the tip of the iceberg with John Deere. They're squeezing sales franchises hard too, punishing sellers for doing business with anyone but Deere. Deere is basically trying t…

I die a little bit inside when I see stuff like this, I mean, what sort of cowards are afraid of free speech? Geez. As long as everyone is consenting, it's all fair. In fact, my gu…

I would disagree about professional licensure, and think the same arguments apply there as in other areas, although maybe in different ways. In fact, I think the problem in license…

"Mr. Trump, in a telephone interview moments after the bill was pulled, blamed Democrats and predicted that they would seek a deal within a year after, he asserted, “Obamacare expl…

I think Kate is sort of underappreciated. I keep going back to it on Linux after using other editors. It seems to be available for Windows and OSX, but I haven't tried it on those …