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Yep, great book. Also dispels the Lord of the Lies myth that people have taken as gospel.

And some people really WANT to believe it's true. They've built their entire worldview around it and the idea they've been duped would cause a massive narcissistic injury.

It a way science is very similar to free speech. Its can be very harmful when misused, but generally the answer to bad science is not LESS science, but BETTER science. The proper r…

HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE is pretty good, though about 1/2 through, the challenges started to seem like my actual day job. Definitely would recommend for kids interested in picking up…

Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.

Wow, what a great and unexpected talk by John Cleese. Thanks for that.

Is there a distinction being made between the quantum computer being impossible, and it being impossible without a future breakthrough in engineering or physics?

But the top tax rate has been steadily declining since the Eisenhower administration. This tax bill furthers that decline. Over that period we've seen an increase in inequality. Ar…

And in California we still have Prop 13, which effectively locks long-term owners into their existing houses.

Hacking is exploiting flaws in systems. Is not lobbying itself exploiting a flaw in the system?

But your experience is just anecdotal yes? You (and frankly me as well) have a resistance to the FB addiction, but the numbers of people on the platform are staggering and cannot b…

With all the resources at their disposal, they could perhaps bring in a professional editorial staff to rank each news source based on some unbiased (ahem) and transparent criteria…

"Just because you do not take an interest in Facebook news, doesn't mean Facebook news won't take an interest in you" - Perecles

The best thing about this is, Google will have to bring back wireless charging now for future Pixels.

Specific issues causing Ayo's creation: https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...

Who among us have called in sick to the day job just to put in a solid block of daytime hours on a side project? It's happened to me a few times over the years, and I've been 97% g…

> flabbergasted Not really surprising at all. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/opioid-lobbying-ph...

Is it weird that there's no Sarah Palin speech scheduled?

Both (all?) countries could benefit from doing one thing: legalize everything.

Discussions like these, among many clearly intelligent people, can sometimes get lost in the weeds. What's missing is a basic contextual foundation, without which all the wonky det…

Yes I think everyone has had one of those "Wanna get away?" moments. Hopefully they're very early in your career and only ever happen once. Mine was small and I was very Jr so noth…

"rekeying all our accounting data from printouts" I am cringing.

I have to wonder if you're doing it wrong. We have a very large angular/node app, which has been in production for 2.5 years, with many packages. We npm-install several times per d…