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Frankly, I don't trust password managers. Perhaps I'm naive and they're perfectly safe, but still. My solution is to develop an algorithm for all my passwords that is pretty quick …

If someone doesn't think "robots" (i.e., automation) hasn't devastated the usual human modes of keeping a livlihood, they haven't been paying attention. When you consider how nearl…

Not if inflation is 3-4% per year.

Yes, it is poorly written. But the idea is that you wouldn't properly metabolize whatever you're eating with the drink. Or whatever is floating in your bloodstream when you're drin…

Whether it harbors intelligent life, however, is still up for debate.

I've been decrying Amazon's usability for years. Such an unintutive mess of menus and sub-systems. Such a poor customer experience for anything other than simple "click and buy" us…

Sometimes I wish I was wealthy enough to buy out horrible companies, just so I could have the power to dismantle them and end the suffering.

As a physician, I say most doctors would enthusiastically welcome it. With today's constant threat of litigation, practically all doctors are getting second opinions on every diagn…

Because, in theory, if anything goes wrong during the course of a patient's care the doctor can just say "Watson agreed with me" and the chance of litigation drops dramatically.

I'm happy to say I think you'll be pleased with the level of critical thinking here. I have also despaired at the state of Reddit. Though, depending on your interests, some days th…

I usually overcome such mechanisms on Chrome by holding down the back arrow until the list of past pages comes up, then going back to the page just before the last one.

I wanted to enjoy the book, but it was pretty sub-par. I admit it made me smirk when I "got" an 80's reference, but it also annoyed me how obvious it was that the book was deemed "…

Admirers of Rand making appeals to authority? That's an obvious contradiction to anyone who had even read one page of the cliff notes of her philosophy. Someone, you or they, are c…