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Yeah, I was a bit disappointed to see Donald Trump dragged into this, almost arbitrarily, and almost needlessly. Then I remembered I was afterall reading the Vox.

Of course it isn't new. Very little is truly new. It is the same old stuff repeating in different contexts, leading us to comfortably believe "yeah, but this is different".

Have we already forgotten of the ilk that harassed and harangued Galileo and Copernicus? Even Socrates?

This is especially applicable to the scientific cadre; sometimes leads me to think that some scientists are just as close-minded as the religionists of yore. The same applies to "b…

You're right that there are few rewards to humility. An example that immediately comes to mind is during my thesis, I set upon the task of creating a multivariate model to predict …

The US Gov has a very nice little book on the topic - A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis. Just google and you'll find it on the…

The idea of selling to people based on their needs assumes that everyone has needs/insecurities which, if correctly targeted, will result in a successful sale. To this extent, we'r…

They just started YC research. Maybe its time for YC Movies...

Hydroponics using atmospheric humidity maybe?

Reading this made me wonder...do SpaceX and other private space flight programs have similar standards of rigor?

Agreed - everyone has their weak spot, but not for everything . Its like everyone has their price, but not the fellow considerably richer than you. As for smoking, if companies wer…

Indeed. Everyone has their sensitivities, vulnerabilities and emotional/other needs. A company that has figured out how to push the right buttons in its sales pitch/ad has found it…

Anything can make fools of gullible people. Free markets or oligarchies.

There could well be discriminatory billing - clean conscientious passengers pay less than drunk party goers.

Cities where Uber and the like are being blocked with oppose robo-cars even more vigorously. Like the revolts against steam engines and factories we read about. Uber-opposition wil…

On the supply side: No patents, or easy/cheap to license patents. Technical trade secrets don't remain so for very long. Large margins for one or a few suppliers/manufacturers. Thi…

I had tried this a while back, and found it depends on what you're searching. For technical topics, I had found bing had a preference towards the articles from the microsoft develo…

This is a good topic, and dear to me too. First and foremost requirement: people with some experience in the various areas of learning. Ideally, not professors; professional educat…

Thanks for sharing this! I would love to help with this - once I have gotten up to speed on various things by building a graph on Postgres myself.

The point about micro services is a really valid one. In principle, if the application is neatly split into a group of micro services, it would make things easier. This is somethin…

Yes, it might be a hack, but it should offer some powerful functionalities... I'll remember this one.

Yes, it might be a hack [actually I don't think it is], but it should offer some powerful functionalities...

Thank you so much for this list. I am looking into these... Maybe there's something I can reuse, but at the very least I can get some inspiration from checking them out.

AFAIK: A proper graph db is almost mandatory if there are complex, ad hoc queries that need to be made on real time data. Using an RDBMS is great if the graph query types are going…