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Do you think you can attribute the relaxation more to the breathing or stretching component? I've been doing casual meditation (mostly just mindful breathing) and I wonder if I'd f…

I recognized the name Catmull from Steve Jobs biographies... lo and behold you're talking about the Pixar President Edwin Catmull.

The keto (short for ketogenic) diet is a popular name for this. You only eat proteins and fats as your macronutrients (with room for 20g or less of net carbs per day). You have to …

Doesn't the industrial/building automation industry already have solid solutions for your fridge example? Many buildings already have sensors wired in to PLCs and it's easy to netw…

It's a test that university graduates in the traditional engineering disciplines (civil, mechanical, etc.) usually take in the USA. After 5 years of work experience, you take anoth…

I think you're very wrong about educational funding. There's a high correlation between a schools relative wealth and its relative academic success in each state (mainly tied to pr…

Prey "The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and ag…

The first issue from 1843 can be viewed here, and Incognito mode can be used to (mostly?) bypass the article viewing limits: http://www.economist.com/node/2002191

Not dead according to this month-old article. http://news.sys-con.com/node/3350225 But they do seem to have fallen off that billionaire trajectory.

Some poor people are just born into bad situations and stay that way. You can't extrapolate your limited experience onto all of them.

>>>And logically, if the poor as a group were good with money, they wouldn't be poor. Give poor people a reward/goal within reach and then see how they do. I know working on long p…

That's a tasty sounding software stack

Don't the top hedge funds consistently outperform the market?

Most NBA players actually come from middle or upper middle class backgrounds. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/in-the-nba-...

So am I understanding correctly that "market research" means selling data mining insights to advertisers? Do you expect this to be a significant portion of revenue? (I don't have a…

>Spiegel seems like a really cool guy with a heart in the right place and is probably a genius. What do you base this opinion on? I guess he might be cool but I don't think the pre…

Time to rebalance into bonds?

I'm curious about the endemic reasons. Overall, is it that being closer to the product feels better? And did you really shake all the "weird feelings"/impostor syndrome about charg…

I'm in my early 20s but I had major back pain for about 6 months. I thought it was caused by my limited flexibility and trying to lift too much weight at the gym without maintainin…

Biggest examples in what way?

Did you intentionally mix serif and sans-serif fonts on your website? It made my amateur design hackles stand up.

You don't think pressure matters when plunging? I've speculated that a faster plunge might extract more solutes from the coffee grinds due to greater liquid penetration into the co…

Is it known that Apple leaders endorse the contents of Becoming Steve Jobs? Perhaps Apple chooses to promote the work for the publicity despite its angle on Jobs' career stages. Th…