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to continue his human monkey analogy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk

"They knew that mobile devices would overtake PCs." For productivity work, people usually prefer to remain stationary and use monitors larger than 4". They are not competing produc…

subscription fees + time invested in leveling = sunk costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th... players will spend more time playing than they would othe…

Governments are basically corporations with varying degrees of public ownership that have monopolies on societal goods. I would consider this corporate espionage. The US also engag…

from article: "Finally, the NSA has a rich history of monitoring the communications of Americans – sometimes legally, sometimes not." re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Global warming WILL occur, regardless of man. The question is what is the value of the subcomponent of temperature variation caused…

wow.

The only backward value apparent from this article is an extreme defecit in holding people accountable. One could argue that every other value must be phenomenal since it is still …

incomplete combustion\plenty of other stuff in the ground in it(heavy metals etc.). The smoke is not just CO2. Plus " sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the primary…

u.s. nuclear reactors have always been safe: if a loss of coolant failure occurs the reaction is designed to slow down rather than speed up soviet cheronobyl style. the concern is …

I think this notion was already captured in 1929 by Freud with 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents He more broadly intr…

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...

looks like they need to find one given the state of links on their main index (in Opera at least)

What, hackers don't get enough sunlight? guffaw!

All mac, no dual monitors, they honestly put some sort of flame decal on that table, and minimalism is not one of their design philosophies. In summary, needs more Helvetica.

ha, myself a physics to economics to cognitive science major early in college, now settling in on Computer Science to sit down, gear down, and actually MAKE some stuff. In the shor…

"Coffee isn't a drug _or something_". lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs First picture caption: "Coffee is the most widely used psychotropic beverage in the world. In 1999 the…