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Why are opiates classified as hallucinogenic and not rolled in with heroin?

Contractor probably measured by throughput, not capture rate. Hence incentives are to push people through.

Middlebrow is precisely what it aspires to be. It's not a scholarly (highbrow) publication. It's not USA Today (lowbrow). It executes specific conventions capably and asks only tha…

Which will not stop recruiters from seeking candidates with 5 years experience in Swift.

Take this question to the bogleheads forum.

"So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said ..." I don't think the ad hominem helps your case, at all.

"I did not ask for her permission, but I think that her information is in very trusted hands with Paul and I am 100% sure that he would never ever abuse it." Wow, how exactly is th…

And let's not forget that RMS' views create the space that moderates inhabit. In other words, if there were no RMS, the moderates would be the extremists and we'd all be poorer for…

Crowd never should have happened. For 3 (or was it 4 or 5?) years, jira users have voted for an enhancement to drive jira groups out of LDAP. The reward for this loyalty? Crowd: a …

this is awesome but for the annoying number of sites that demand short passwords.

Spend some time here: http://www.bogleheads.org/ read the wiki; post questions in the advice forum; read some of the suggested books. I think William Bernstein is probably the best…

Yes to Graham. Emphatic no to Rich Dad Poor Dad. Here's why: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

Grammar is about sentence structure; your point is about word choice, otherwise known as "diction." And "flush" is perfectly correct. Used transitively, it means "to expose or chas…

I don't find his argument particularly convincing. He's assuming that the market can see that something that was open is now closed. And while that might be true for an end user ap…