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Well he’s calling for more education and awareness. It’s like Big Food. The entire CPG industry has been stuffing people with sugar, salt, and fat for decades, exploiting human nat…

I run an AHK script with a little over 2000 abbreviations (e.g. typing 'abbn' expands to 'abbreviation'). It helps me type 100+ WPM without too much strain.

I think PG once wrote an essay explaining that most press is agenda-driven and there's somebody with money behind the story. I wonder if that's the case here. F1 just passed out of…

Yes, sell-side (i.e. brokers like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, etc.) analysts do share their models with clients. They do this both in 'hardcopy,' pasted into published research report…

What kind of demand do you think there is for a Linux-only mainframe? My limited understanding is that most mainframe customers are locked-in, e.g. they have legacy COBOL code runn…

This is interesting and I'd like to hear more opinions on it. My impression is that distributed computing has been eating Power/Sparc/Z processors' lunch for a long time now becaus…

Are the rovers too far away to drive there and check up on it? It's amazing to me that it has taken us so long to arrive at such a tentative result on the existence of water on Mar…

I'm interested in learning more about this. Does anybody have any thoughts? I think that, by intentionally posting unlikeable things, he guarantees himself 100% spam likes. On some…

I had the same thought. Unfortunately, the article doesn't make it crystal clear how much information the neural net uses to bet against you. It would be patently unfair if it actu…

What does IBM have to contribute to self-driving cars? Google's work has gotten by far the most attention.

I know HN thinks Google is much cooler than IBM, but is it weird that I like IBM's chances in ML progressing to AI? For one thing, Watson was a very impressive demonstration. For a…

Can anyone shed some light on what 'Director of Engineering' might mean at Google? It sounds rather unassuming for a person of his stature.

Would you (or anybody else who's deep in this) mind expanding? Does it have something to do with carrier subsidies?

The weird thing is that Apple is trading for less than 10x PE and Chipotle for about 40x. Chipotle is certainly well-appreciated on Wall Street and, given the implications of the P…

Ouch. I haven't seen a lot of companies make announcements like these. Usually they build low-quality apps and just leave them to languish on App World. I've heard that it's actual…

Thanks, appreciate the point. After all, part of the reason we moved away from gold as currency in the first place was its inability to keep up with economic expansion.

I don't think that Buffett is saying that stocks, at any given point in time, will deliver you better returns over a given time period than gold or bonds. He quite clearly notes th…

This sounds excellent for Corning. As a company that melts glass by the pound and sells it by the square foot, 20% thinner should result in net cost savings. What I'm most excited …

I particularly enjoyed the last infographic on temperature because it makes me appreciate air conditioning all the more. It says music halls reached 150 degrees and theaters 125 de…

The really funny thing is that the LCD panel business is generally horrible. All profits must be reinvested in expensive new production lines, there's little differentiation among …