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The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can both invest in yourself, while investing in other opportunities. The problem is how to allocate your resources optimally. Having early ac…

From the project README: How bootstrapped works tldr - Percentile based confidence intervals based on bootstrap re-sampling with replacement. --- MIT OCW 18.05 has this to say abou…

It's not procrastination - it's just lazy evaluation.

Unbreakable crypto is a genie long out of the bottle. No amount of wishing, legislating, or fear-mongering is going to prevent terrorist organizations from implementing these well-…

There is an iPad version. http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/ipad/

This is great. I started watching pretty late into the stream, though. Will the videos be archived and available after the event?

Yes. We can generally all agree that ISPs in the United States are effectively monopolists with no incentive to do what's right for their customers. Now, let's talk solutions.

Or you could pay an additional $5/month for a decent VPN. In fact, I have a number of close contacts who work in the industry who tell me that this type of practice is of heavy int…

I suspect this is a distraction to direct the public's attention away from PRISM and the NSA controversy.

The article slams Alito, but the judgment was 5-4. Whenever rulings are this close, it suggests that there are nuances and rationale arguments on both sides. As disconcerting as th…

Completely agreed - plaigiarism is rampant because collaboration is so natural and doing work for its own sake does nothing to advance one's understanding of the material. All subj…

Using Bitcoin is like paying for goods with shares of company stock... stock that can be broken down into almost arbitrarily small subunits... and which are immune to SEC regulatio…

Now worries - I didn't mean to sound argumentative and I agree with you that in the short run bubbles form. ^_^ Though, I would say freedom is not just _hard_ to control - it's imp…

Is freedom a bubble? There is tremendous value in freedom. Bitcoin provides this in abundance. Like P2P filesharing, no amount of legislation and regulation will wrest control of i…

Agreed, caps here to highlight the change.

This: On October 28th, the Library of Congress decided to not renew an exemption for carrier unlocking cell phones* Should be changed as follows: "decided to not renew" => "decided…

Of course, students have no reason to report deaths of relatives when there are no consequences to missing class. So, deaths most likely only get reported during exams.

This should be simulcast to an MIT auditorium.

Please excuse the bluntness, but neither of the two things you mentioned (using smartphones and downloading illegal copies of movies) have anything to do with Kim Dotcom or his new…

Ortiz will answer for her actions, perhaps not as a matter of law, but certainly as a matter of common sense and decency. No one should be exempt from behaving like a decent human …

What's wrong with algorithms?

"Cops use Taser on (+Unarmed) Uncooperative Woman (+Holding a Video Camera)" - Fixed that for you. Now: Why a taser? Couldn't they just slap her in handcuffs and escort her out of …

That's what clinical trials and FDA approval is for (at least in theory).

Just to clarify: The previous link I posted was not the one referenced in the Science Daily. That would be here: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/emmm.201200245 Unfortunately, all of t…