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My guess is that those mental models don't provide much comfort to people suffering from depression. Our brains evolved over many years and they require certains things to be prese…

South Korea - military dictatorship until the late 80s Taiwan - one party state + martial law from 1949 - 1987. Singapore - one party has held power for over 40 years. These three …

They did this before with the nytimes and it didn't end the way Tesla would've liked. The writer had a number of problems, and Elon Musk accused him of being dishonest to create a …

There's a lot of academic literature that supports the claim that reports of suicide in the media lead to an increase in the number of suicides. This is often referred to as "copyc…

Your point still stands, but Singapore is far more western than Japan.

While university sport certainly exists, the major differences are that i) they don't generate any revenue, and ii) student athletes don't receive any advantage in university admis…

> their shit-bag leader spends all of their money developing weapons that even the most hard-up revolutionaries wouldn't be caught dead with. I was under the impression that the at…

Except that publishers won't agree to such a deal, meaning that any console implementing such a policy would lose third-party support resulting in significantly decreased sales uni…

I'm guessing that the publishers were only willing to allow features such as family sharing etc in exchange for limiting used disc sales.

Those rules were relaxed three years ago. http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...

From the article: > FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the order…

I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt …

Could someone explain why she felt compelled to talk? She was advised to by her lawyers, and she was concerned that she'd be arrested if she didn't. Was it because she had a legal …

> who had both the chance and the opportunity to use the access to leak stuff that could have been quite damaging to the company - yet didn't According to the article, he'd leaked …

Could you add an email to your profile? I'd like to email you regarding Masters courses at UniMelb.

Authoring the RSS spec may be an exaggeration. A history of RSS can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Basically, it seems like the original RSS spec (RSS 0.9) was aut…

If he accepted the plea bargain of six months, then the case wouldn't have gone to trial, avoiding the excessive legal fees. I don't understand the timeline, but had he accepted th…

I don't have any idea about how easy it would be to detect a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch, but the court documents do mention that Aaron placed the laptop in the…

Why are you mentioning the figure of 35 years? According to the WSJ, the prosecution was planning to push for seven years at trial, and were willing to offer six months in exchange…