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I've been wearing a watch every day for years and I have no interest in this stuff either. Honestly, I like the idea that my watch is just a stupid thing that tells me the time, ha…

>willing There was an important word there that you seemed to miss. I didn't say that he who sacrifices more will always win, but they do have more options available to them, so to…

No matter what, you're always going to be at a disadvantage to someone who is willing to sacrifice more than you, whether that be health or family or anything else. I liked the art…

>Aww isn't that cute! A musician/artist having an intellectual idea that isn't completely terrible I think it's less to do with him being a musician/artist than with him being will…

>You so desperately want this to be a nefarious PR job. And you seem to desperately want me to be some bitter chick-fil-a hater. IF chick-fil-a was involved in the writing of this …

You can't believe it would happen for money, but you'd believe it'd happen for free? Anyway, PR is far more complex and subtle than "I give money, you write article". Someone poste…

It's not that he doesn't believe this happens, but rather that the presence of a story about it in NYT where chick-fil-a is mentioned directly in the first paragraph is not an acci…

I think the whole point is that "should" and "shouldn't" simply aren't very useful concepts when dealing with corporations, like talking about what a slime mold should or shouldn't…

That's dumb, just because someone isn't willing to go to an extreme measure to prevent something doesn't mean that more moderate measures are unreasonable. Banning all electronic d…

I don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su... ) http://www.princeton.edu…

No, just the people who decide who gets them: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

> Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate)...

1. No one ever said that only women are faced with high performance demands, you're very obviously making a strawman and you should feel bad for it. 2. Arguments like "This is a ve…

>I think programming is bound to drop more specific syntax and become increasingly like natural language Why do you think that? Programming has never been like writing in a natural…

I'm going to try to be nice and give you some advice: don't write like that. Constructing these overwrought sentences with the dashes and the semicolons and the vocabulary and what…

People have at least tried, however: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Rat...

85% dollar-wise, or 85% of items purchased? Because I would argue that men tend to make fewer, but more expensive purchases, eg big tv, high end stereo, etc. I would still believe …

What, you've never gone and hacked an interpreter because you were mildly annoyed by something? I don't think he actually means for it to be used in production.

I started using repustate's sentiment analysis for a project recently and it was impressively easy to get started with, although the sentiment scores can seem a little arbitrary at…

I don't think anyone thinks that it's wrong to try and give your children a better position in life than they would be able to achieve through their ability alone, just that it's b…

This is sort of an odd statement since the way a piece of code is run is directly related to how it is parsed. If an alternative implementation like Topaz parses something differen…

how is it necessary to make racist comments in order to "get shit done"? will your production systems all crash if you don't make a minimum of 5 jokes about nappy hair and malt liq…

IANAL either, but I assume that they would have to somehow prove that you read it, perhaps by showing that you posted in the comments section.

nonfiction books rarely become "classics", that doesn't mean they're not important or worth reading.

No it's not. (See what I did there? I responded to an unsupported statement of fact with another unsupported statement of fact. Both our arguments are equally valid, i.e. not at al…