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A professor at Harvard, Ben Edelman, has been all over this for several years. He catalogues the anticompetitive practices of Google and other tech companies. http://www.hbs.edu/fa…

I worked at a company in this situation. Revenues were stagnating and senior employees started leaving. The non-CEO partner was uninvolved and kept pressing for a sale at all busin…

I started shaving with a standard safety razor about 6 years ago. Multiblade razors do a number on my skin. I've never looked for any alternative since switching. The blades (singl…

Cyc started in the mid-80s when rule-based AI systems were the norm. Everything in AI looked like a theorem prover back then. However, in the 90s, statistical methods began to prod…

I did plenty of graduate work with speech recognition; and detecting cognitive states based on speech is not much better than a coin-flip. Depression, drunkenness, deceit, happines…

I live in SF and I work in tech. I make north of 100k and my rent is 2k. Your situation seems bizarre to me. If you and your girlfriend make north of 100k, then you're pulling in c…

You're describing nearly every job I've ever had. Here's how I coped with various instances. 1. Left the job. 2. Got involved in other teams' projects. 3. Colluded with other emplo…

After a cursory medical exam (blood pressure, heart rate, etc.) just say "I have trouble sleeping. Marijuana helps me." motion of doctor's hand on generic approval form You pay $10…

Makes perfect sense. Facebook scooped up its core audience when they were in college. Now those same people are probably 7-10 years into their careers, and possibly have some clout…

I've just start using this at work. It's far easier to jump into than MapReduce; orders a magnitude easier. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute back to the project at some point.

I still contend that creating an institutional gaggle of smart kids is wrong. It's equivalent to creating a school just for black kids; it's merely form of segregation. I hope they…

You make it seem that gifted children lack social skills. We don't, however, you spend a lot of time with other gifted kids and types of behaviors that provide social currency in t…

I was once the person you describe, and I'm currently the person the parent comment describes (in a velvet coffin 100k+ job). One problem is that gifted programs (at least in publi…

The housing problem is real. The suppliers/property owners know there is a lack of supply, so now they're just getting greedy. Three hours ago this unit was $1600. It was updated t…

I'm not upset or surprised by this. However, it's not the tracking Whisper and similar apps do that upsets me; it's the trashy content and vituperative gossip produced by their use…

I've been under non-competes before. I've just ignored them. Most of them are unenforceable and in cases like Jimmy John's are just another form of harassment.

I had to stop reading half way through. Whenever this type of examination is posted, it's usually that the author finally realizes he's an individual and doesn't have to adhere to …

Correct. Once you're done planning your trip, you can send it to TripIt (or give TripIt OAuth access to your email) and it'll be organized in your account. There is no planning.

It may have not been done for vindictive reasons, but it was definitely done for the wrong reason. This shows a clear lack of leadership abilities on the part of Yishan. I know peo…

The surge in black/hispanic mortgage applications came from lenders and agents specifically targeting (predatorily) those communities when white applicant numbers sagged. I know th…