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> Productivity be damned, RTO makes fiscal sense when you have a 15 year lease on a building you can't get out of. I don't agree with it, but I can see why you'd want warm bodies i…

I'd be interested to know if you might be able to if you could find problems by looking at invariants over partitions of the space. Like Is the number of solutions with v1=false pl…

CF: effective altruism or 80,000 hours for more in this vein.

It was an accomplice who used the information. "Mr Obama's senior science and technology adviser John Holdren had his personal accounts hacked and Gamble passed all of his personal…

Anecdotal, but my grandfather has always advocated building physical fitness in your youth primarily to to have a strong base to carry you into old age.

I of course have no idea what the real answer is, but if you play out the hypothetical this is hardly a paradox. NK hacks Sony. US uses technique x to attribute the attack to NK. I…

In your jewellery store example I think it may be reasonable to prosecute the person. In increasing levels of seriousness: 1. The person is walking by the store and, in the course …

My argument is that the public paying for a thing is not sufficient grounds for claiming that the public should have use of that thing. Since knowledge creation and nuclear weapons…

[BACKGROUND INFORMATION] When a person makes a claim like "All X's are Y's" then it is sufficient to provide a single example of an X which isn't a Y to demonstrate that the claim …

The public's taxes also fund the military. Extending your principle to this case implies that the public owns the countries nuclear arsenal. Can you advise what this ownership shou…

If you're trying to gain information and experience then it is silly to try to optimise for "How many pages have I looked at?" You need to come to terms with what the author is cla…

I believe the previous commentator was referring to the work conducted by Latanya Sweeney http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pd... "In this document, I repor…

The way you are talking about jargon in mathematics suggests you have a limited experience of what mathematicians do. Here's an illustrative example of mathematics as done by mathe…

I certainly agree that an intuitive understanding of a concept can be helpful as a guide and emotionally satisfying. However, I don't think that it is at all sufficient and it is p…

I believe that a common problem for people who are proof reading documents is the brains tendency to complete patterns based on partial information. This causes a person to read no…

I didn't know how cheaply a laptop could be purchased for so I just checked on Ebay for Used/Refurbished laptops. Currently there are 47 'Buy It Now', nominally complete and workin…

For biology: - Various advancements in stem cell research. Eg: skin cells into stem cells. - The creation of a living organism with a completely synthetically constructed genome. -…

I poked through the websites source code and found a link to it. http://audio.sxsw.com/2011/podcasts/DeathoftheTextbook.mp3

I assume my Google searches and Gmail inbox influence the ads I see when checking my email and searching the web respectively.

This seems very promising - thanks for the link!

When playing the computer game Starcraft 2 it is reasonably important to have a good hotkey setup to enable quick, clean control of your buildings and units. (Analogous to Ctrl+C t…

On the same theme of general interest talks by specialists, I'm quite a fan of the Long Now Foundation podcasts.

Surely the context of the filming is important though. If he had gone into the bathroom and was filming people using the toilet then it wouldn't be enough that "He was given permis…