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I see where I wasn't clear in addressing your point--I am not trying to equate ad tracking with securities fraud or workplace ethics disasters, I am comparing their role in shaping…

Removing regulations on financial institutions also improves economic efficiency. It also results in stuff like say, the 2008 housing collapse, or the failure of entire countries (…

I find it somewhat amusing this is even something we discuss--that there are "right" and "wrong" ad blockers is such a twisted re-framing of our right to personal privacy as defaul…

For anyone still holding onto the belief they can break free of being tracked and sold and still remain functional in modern life, I offer you a challenge: For one month, do everyt…

Great read! Thanks for investigating this kind of thing, it's beyond useful.

This is great, I think I'm going to explain it using your method from now on. Edit: I love that there's a segment of people in the QM community approaching these "very serious" tho…

Good point, I liked the work he's criticizing so I think I'm currently primed to take the post too seriously

The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world only. For Aaronson …

Will second this, Red Mars (and the good parts of the second two in the trilogy) do a fantastic job of working through scenarios of both the sociopolitical and technical challenges…

The counter from Sax Russell in Red Mars to this exact debate, straight from the book: > "The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. Without the human presence it is just a colle…

Cool! Do you have any plans to track historical changes of geospacial areas? What reference frame are you using for labeling areas? (places America considers countries vs what Chin…

Nice work! A few months ago I did the same and built a small tool to reverse-geocode the coordinates to see a) if all of its doable and b) how accurate it was ( https://github.com/…

Check out http://www.grandpad.net/ Some awesome friends of mine at Chapman University have been building exactly that: a tablet for seniors.

Recipes based on the content of your pantry/fridge. The ideal solution would provide a db based on sensors/user input to know what ingredients and amount of those ingredients you h…

This is silly hit-piece journalism. Of course the internet has changed... I'm surprised he expected conformity to his ideology as it opened up to everyone and everyone else's ideol…

This is cool! I like the simplicity of the design, both the finished resume and the tool for creating it. Any plans to support listing/describing past projects?

Meditation, undertaken through rigorous discipline, shows evidence for something. What that is, is still up for debate. If you're referring instead to feedback techniques to curb a…

Wow! I had no idea that 2 ambiguously-phrased suggestions would completely stop the biological processes causing my overactive amygdala! This is it everyone, the field of therapy i…

Is it ok to witch-hunt a perfectly adequate CEO because you disagree with his personal life? Oh wait...

So the author takes a group of 19-20 year olds and tasks them with a project which: a) asks them to converse in forced manner with someone they do not know, and then b) explicitly …

Whoops, you're totally right! I misread the comment I responded to. Melanin is only useful when radiation is emitted. It can't coerce decay to happen more quickly.

Melanin has about a 30% absorption rate of ionizing radiation in the gamma spectrum, and remains stable (not oxidized in the traditional rate) while producing a current. The fungus…

The problem is that the active molecule itself has a complex structure, and it is very hard to get a high-resolution image of even one of its structures (melanin can be folded in l…