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Heck, you could probably fill all the major cities in the US just with marketing people.

A big part of that is because we evolved to be social animals. A single man alone in the Amazonian jungle would have a hard time surviving for an extended amount of time. A tribe, …

This complaint is an eloquent example of the sad result of neglecting the humanities and arts in modern education.

The really big criminals and tax evaders will ever find a way around this kind of restriction. This is useful to control the smaller fish. But, also, the cynic in me thinks that th…

The same thing here in Brasil since 2002. The only difference that there is an artificial restriction that online transfer between banks outside of banking hours will only clear wh…

Heuristics. Amount of skin tones mostly. Of course, lots of false positives at that age, and some false negatives due to racial biases of the algorithm. It was crude, but kind of w…

Hardly. High culture takes a level of attention that someone who is struggling in life hardly will be able to attain. Moreover, philosophy is concerned with truth, and truth can so…

You're right not forcing the issue. But this is something that merits at least a dialogue. You don't have the right to force your partner to do what you want on this, but you have …

Yes. Probably by design.

I've long suspected that a lot of illegal drug usage is actually an attempt on self-medication

No. Courageous!

Consider yourself lucky they still include a power cable in the box.

Geez. Nuke'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. In a more serious note, any biologist here knows if varying the type of hand sanitizer (e.g. alcohol this week, benzalconium…

Functionally, I fail to see how Windows 10 is worse than aero. Aesthetically, Aero is a phenomenal display of bad taste, that we'd all better forget. When I see this kind of commen…

He could say the given the limitations on the hardware, that writing the software was something that required a level of technical prowess hardly found in your smartwatch. If we de…

Funnily enough, I love React. Maybe because I am old enough to have worked with Borland's Delphi in the past. The feeling I have is that React and UI frameworks put programmers wit…

3, 2, 1 for celebrities accessing this treatments through Hollywood doctors, and then the spawning of a thriving cottage industry of shady tree doctors to satisfy the demand from t…

It doesn't involve the mouse at all. press windows key. start menu opens, search field is focused automatically. start typing, windows start doing an incremental search, heavily bi…

I am over 40 right now, and, frankly, I don't see too much of this problem right now. As you get older, you need to understand that you need to adapt. It's easier to get in the tra…

just press the window key and search for the program you want.

As a remote worker, I fear the hype. I am glad that remote work is becoming more and more acceptable and normal, but I think that we run the risk of it becoming a new fad, start be…

Exactly. That's what happened in the WWII. This nice tesla factory? Well, we need some nice silent patrol vehicles mr Musk, but we need you to come out with some kind of composite …

Metals are far more important because metals provide better tools and weapons. Better fibers give more comfort, better resistance to the elements. But, in itself, is not as much tr…

Richard Nixon carries a lot of responsibility for the current situation. He never ever put the human rights issue on the table, he never pressed on the issue, because from the begi…