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That's quite an interesting take on how to counteract depressive states. Do you know if there are any academic publications that have similar findings? I think this needs to be exp…

I've lived in the Bay Area since before starting kindergarten. No way the average IQ of software engineers here, or anywhere, is close to 130. Software engineering might be one of …

> From a street hobo, that gets you instantly dismissed, but there's a counter-intuitive aspect where if you're a Jaron Lanier, it just further underscores that you're Jaron Lanier…

Unlike my laptop battery, he has a long lifespan and I'm sure he'll stick around for the next few years. Just enough time to finally award the man.

Those studies have generally shown liberals to be only somewhat less tolerant, as an aggregate. Most liberals are still tolerant, as are most conservatives.

He made pretty okay art and cared about the suffering of animals.

The lack of overhead bins makes me go WOW.

Finding a good tenured position is comically difficult now. I know an assistant professor of engineering at Princeton who just left for Renaissance Technologies because he couldn't…

The USSR achieved more than just the same thing. When you say more hostile environment, I'm assuming you mean they were in an essentially autarkic condition, unlike contemporary Ch…

In America they're called brand ambassadors.

Was this guy the inspiration for Mr. Bean?

Excuse me, but Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia was Italian.

"Jamie, pull up the video of the chimp getting run over by a Tesla."

People in other parts of the Bay Area still don't move to San Francisco or have any desire to, even if they have the means.

Facebook's ability to prop itself up and exist as it does, despite all the animus against it, reminds me of the essay Meditations on Moloch.

I can assure any megamind in here that Socrates offended more than just 50% of Athens' population.

I also remember Back to the Future Part II

I'm taking none of your ancestors or grandparents lived during Stalin's reign?

I can also imagine walking through 1.5 miles of Phoenix sprawl is dreadfully boring, compared to somewhere like San Francisco or Berkeley.

It's different 60% of the time, every time.

>There's a long tradition of political extremism among engineers in cultures around the world Funny you say that, as most of the major Islamist terrorist groups were founded by or …

That's true for most European countries, but not America.