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These statistics favor monocultural societies and collectivist societies over individualist ones. eyeroll . You know what's typically American? This kind of masturbatory pop sociol…

If I hire someone I want them to have a good attention to detail and not just do whatever works. Crazy-person level of attention to detail. Not good . Not adequate . It asks for pe…

Because this is a common misconception about economics that drives me nut. On second thought, I'm definitely too trigger happy. Let me explain: Inflation has never been a problem s…

Meh. This is legalization of use . I mean, yeah, it's a nice step, specially for the US -- a country which still has in its legislation, though void by the constitutional court, th…

Here's my proposal: let's forget exchange rates. Let's not confuse them with inflation [0]. That's a red herring. Exchange rates are important for BTC's legal users now because the…

High Frequency trading is at the for front of alot of technology such as ASIC's, Infiniband networking gear,and low latency OS and networking stacks. That's not an argument for HFT…

With the other bomb. And the fact that it didn't explode.

That is a well known crackpot article, already debunked by biologists and astronomers alike: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/01/16/diatomsiiiiin-...

I recommend you to read again the article. Newell here makes some interesting points that directly address your concerns. Briefly: (a) Games of tomorrow will be made to host creati…

Sports are democratic and egalitarian? Tell that to Messi or Lebron James ;) Anyway, that sports and education are so tangled is purely a national oddity of the US, maybe stemming …

They broke 31 out of 32 rounds. In cryptography, if you break 1 bit, you've broken it. No excuse.

If I were an investor, and Nintendo's CEO came by and told me they wanted to make games for smartphones or, god forbid, sell to Apple , I'd sell so fast, and with so much energy, C…

Which is a much easier problem to solve. I suppose this web server is in the same LAN, or at least whitelisted, so send the email directly to the institution's SMTP server, which i…

What I find really interesting about the NSA is their Suite A: classified algorithms (!) used to protect the most sensitive documents (!!) with hilariously bad security records (!!…

It could, in mental work. You could forget things. Also, in my experience, real understanding of mathematical concepts comes to me after I've studied it, when I'm thinking about th…

Hum. I got a different impression with regards to the FEM graphs of the beams' stresses. Dr. Drang seemed more bothered by the fact that they were there because it was too amateur,…

Yeah, but this population prone to schizophrenia would have: a) to know they're predisposed to this condition; b) to know that weed would worsen it; c) to believe that this effect …

> They are dealing with the impoverished young men of today, high on pot and trolling for snacks. That is, they would be trolling for snacks if the munchies are ever able to overri…

Which is annoying and self-righteous, and laughably wrong, and charmingly unaware that it has exactly zero arguments to support its position -- apart from tone trolling, of course.…

> What is a soul? Soul, noun: social construct developed over millenia for purposes of group identification, specifically religious; sometimes used for political (crusades, justifi…

Avatar and TDK historic points in film. AKA Dancing with Smurfs, and The Movie With More Plot Holes Than The Titanic. Hum, I beg to disagree. Overall, I got a good laugh from the l…

First, women are just 20% of all AIDS victims. Mind not blown, Mr. Un-PC Dude. Second, that shows a fair degree of missing the point of fiction . Sure, in real life, where everythi…