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Thermodynamics can only be invoked when we know enough about the systems involved to make effective decisions. Our present knowledge of how food is turned into both used and stored…

Pretty much all research has shown that the best way to improve poverty is to give people money, and not some sort of good that you've decided is better (goats, chickens, cows, wha…

"It wasn't exactly optional" was that there was an implied request that everyone would attend. It went on everyone's calendars and was during work hours, not after. I'm not arguing…

IMO, The tech industry has a huge alcohol problem in general. It's not uncommon for even largeish companies to have beer kegs and frequent happy hours. Just recently we had a team …

Mac OS X has always shipped with a screenshot utility called "Grab". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_%28software%29

Nitpick mode: on cat article.txt | wc 134 6494 39992 So almost 6500 words and only 1 map and 1 photo. You'd think if you were writing about Houston's parks you might, you know, sho…

Several months ago, members of my team at work booked various Airbnbs for a large conference in San Francisco. We booked early to get a better deal, and I'm pretty sure a lot of Ai…

One word: price. E-book prices have soared! Almost everything on Amazon is over $10 these days. They're often going for more than the paperback price, and certainly more than the p…

Ah, food studies. The breeding ground of bad science. I am not saying this is bad science, but a quick glance shows this to be survey data. The problem with the data is that people…

So by default your name and DNA are not visible to anyone. You'd have to make your profile public in order for other people to see any information about you. All it shows in the re…

This is on the mark. I know many academics who spent a lot of time throughout their school career writing code to get their research done. They looked at this as a necessary evil, …

I've worked in Vancouver at a startup, and to me it seems that the goals of a Canadian startup are just more conservative. No one ever expected to become a Facebook, or a Google or…

A lot has changed in the last few years-- with modern tools (Skype, Google Hangouts, IRC, GotoMeeting), it is possible to not only almost entirely replicate being co-located, but t…

The big problem here is that no one actually really knows just how much vitamin D is necessary. So their claims of X units per day recommended are just as bogus as those claiming 2…