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'Rationality: From AI to Zombies' is available on a pay-what-you-want basis. It talks about cognitive science, ethics, human (ir)rationality and how to improve it, among other thin…

I recommend reading about the Fun Theory: http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/ > Fun Theory is the field of knowledge that deals in questions such as "How much fun i…

How would my data (say status updates) be stored? On a single server of my own choice? How do you decide who has access to what? Will it be somehow encrypted, so that only a subset…

I know women who do use their gender to get respect. I never heard them explicitly demanding it, but they expect it and often get it. There are not many of them, but they do exist.…

If a woman acts inappropriately towards a man, he rarely has any option to make her fuck off. "Men don't have to do it"? They can't. It's only that it happens less often (I guess).…

The cards could be given for any non-appropriate behavior, not just sexual harassment of women. Keep in mind that there are also some sexist women that can't behave themselves. EDI…

If most of the SO community was female but you didn't know about it, would your observations somehow differ from these? Would you notice?

Vim completely freezes and consumes 100% cpu right after starting up. Also, the yankring plugin has a problem with non-existant ~/.vim/tmp directory.

The point of non-discrimination is EQUALITY between people of all races and genders. So if you can't switch the sides, they are not equal and it is wrong. This is just madness. You…

How would you feel about "Etsy Wants to Give Male Programmers $5,000 to Attend Hacker School"? It would be in the news all over the country. If you can't switch male/female without…

Nice, but my browser (Firefox 6.0.2) hung up for a few moments on the last slide and it took me painfully long to close the tab.

Why does every post about Google+ have to be linked here?

One of the reasons may be, that men always help women with their computers. They don't need to clean it off spyware, reinstall windows or anything, because their IT friend will do …

Does this mean it would be a good thing to shorten time spent in school? I hated those 6-7 hours in the classroom, most of it was wasted and I wish that the next generation doesn't…

Go to India/China/anywhere. A change in culture can be refreshing and living there is really cheap. English is the second official language in India, so there shouldn't be a barrie…