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The Teaching Company; sometimes I look forward to traffic.

This goal is definitely attainable; it depends on your fitness level. I would have no problem doing 100 pushups every hour 8 times a day.

The finance guys may have been aware of it, but their actions were clearly not in line with this knowledge as evidence by the year 2008. From the article you linked: "None of this …

Things of this nature cannot be predicted so far in advance. This report is as useful as yesterday's racing form.

Black Swan theory isn't about denying science; it's about recognizing the limits of science. Taleb's position (and argument in this paper) is that we need to recognize instances wh…

Houston

Something like this already exists for ultimate frisbee: http://pickupultimate.com

I use git on development machines and have an rsync script to push updates to the server.

You could start by providing your email address so people can contact you.

What do you do?

Your initial reply to me can be rephrased as "I wouldn't want to accomplish all the amazing things that Ghandi did because I wouldn't want to live in poverty my whole life." I hope…

The accomplishments of Ghandi far outweigh both his reasons for achieving them and the methods he used. Passing judgment on his lifestyle in spite of his feats would be like saying…

Are you implying that you would not want to achieve the accomplishments of Gandhi in your lifetime if it meant living the lifestyle Gadhi lived? If that is the case I would strongl…

Happiness and money are not correlated. You are always 100% in control of your emotions: the choice to be happy is up to you regardless of what you're doing or what's happening to …

The Economist has redefined "scathing" with this article.

Realty's value as a profession is not completely without merit. Just because the true nature of the job has been obfuscated doesn't mean it should be eliminated.

The industry may have created that phrase in a conveniently ambiguous way; still, in English, positives are always better than negatives when giving a command. Consider the differe…

I think you may have misunderstood my idea. I'm not advocating one site with a meritocracy filter; have as many as you'd like. One for Math PhDs, Chemistry PhDs, just having a bach…

I would change the text: "If you do decide to drink, DO NOT Drive. Drink Safely." to simply "Always drink responsibly." and have that section of the text be a link to a new page wi…

I can't know this for sure, but I would hope those sorts of comments/attitudes would be voted down. A modification on the idea would be to only allow a site with people who have a …

This is an excellent idea! Anything that lowers barriers to accessibility is a good thing.

In order to eliminate fraud of this kind you would have to change fundamental human emotions.

Why only 200-300 years? Either go for the gold (live forever) or accept your mortality.

Here are a few Linux-specific wants: > an intuitive UI for configuring everything in xorg.conf > an intuitive UI for everything involving mounting, fstab, mdadm (raid), network sha…

I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).