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If you can afford to live within jackhammer distance of a metro, you can afford earplugs

It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to d…

People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is wha…

It seems like the biggest problem is the retreat from nuclear, not the focus on solar.

You can look them up though? It's not difficult?

It sounds like something from the last book of the Three Body Problem trilogy

Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?

It's entirely built around linking between different parts of the sequence. In theory, you land on one page and can go to any number of pages. It has a set order (by that which the…

The first words are "A study published this week sheds".... Except for its the author's study. "My study" is more appropriate.

Yudkowsky's Sequences on Less Wrong (Rationality A-Z is the bookform) has a good claim on being a true future-book as webpage.

Definitely more lonely, given that what finished them off was the same Power that still courses through most of the developed world.

The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding. Personality and job fit are …

The answer is to use Microsoft apps on an Apple machine (or Linux if you're that kind of person)

Conservation of Angular momentum collapses shapely sort of things into a disk

Why do you say this?

I thought this was going to be an essential part of this article, but it seems like IEO (Instagram Engine Optimization) is actually technically boring and scammy, whereas automated…

Bad infrastructure causes people to ask "what am I even paying taxes for?" The actual answer is "An insurance company with an army"

We're talking about scientists, not computer scientists. As surely as business managers and industrial engineers don't need to know the best programming practices to be good SQL mo…

What would a good resource for good scripting practices?

Yeah. Going to a bookstore has the same feeling as going clothes shopping with respect to online shopping: it feels good to look at lots of product and to feel the pages in your ha…

I get that you're trying to tell a morality tale in order to determine who the bad guy is, but there wasn't "a bad guy" causing the last recession. "Retail banks were on the front …

So, you make a bunch of good points. But consider- some people (most people) can't ever get a "cash back" credit card because of their bad credit. How does that play into your fram…

Why do you think "Fraud cost is negligible"?

Yes, and ultimately Goldman Sachs is a bank and will be held accountable for anything that happens. This is a GS product that Apple gets a significant cut of.

Why does the pension have to exist? Why don't they just get a 401k and get off the books.