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May I ask why Go was picked as the implementation language?

I'm not sure that whether the individual believes there is a reward is relevant. Example: atheist terrorists -- atheistic suicide bomber, say -- would be heroic because they don't …

Why do you find the Aeropress inconvenient to clean? I just dump the "hockey puck" of grounds into the trash. IMHO it's easier than a french press by a long shot.

You're aware of core.typed? If not, take a look -- it provides type checking / induction on Clojure code.

We switched from DO to Linode a few months ago. I think DO is great, but three things convinced us to move over to Linode. 1) lack of robust logging, 2) we'd get intermittent conne…

Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that such a short duration of exercise (11 minutes of exercise twice / week) could have such a large impact on health. I wish there were more deta…

My cofounder and I were rejected by YC last year. YC provided great feedback, and we took it into consideration, but decided we still thought the idea was solid. We kept looking fo…

Ideally you'd want to make it adaptive based on a variety of economic metrics -- set it to a particular level, watch the effects on the economy, and then adjust for the next year.

That could be caused by the routing, as well, though -- are the servers in the same approximate geographical location?

Not free, but I would suspect that paying electronically is at least a magnitude less impactful on the environment. That checkbook had to be produced, shipped to the bank, mailed t…

Convenience, mostly -- with an electric kettle you can just hit a button and when it pops back it's ready. Also, if you happen to get involved with something and forget about the k…

Of course, the other possible conclusion from positing that drugs == fast food is that drugs should be legal.

I think Psyco was a separate code base, and not an actual progenitor of PyPy.

Yeah, I keep my blog posts in text files via git, and just push up to my server using XMLRPC. https://github.com/brool/wordpress-shuffle

It's manufactured (mostly) in the United States, which is probably pushing up the price some. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...

They assume an upper limit with 100% efficient conversion of matter to energy, so changing the energy production method shouldn't make a material difference. EDIT/UPDATE: Realized …

There are a variety of techniques to reduce the dimensionality of data (i.e., Principal Component Analysis, among other ways), and you can get better results sometimes by running K…

Presumably, if you exercise then you'll have more days total in which to be productive (that is, you'll live longer)!

It definitely happens; here's a case from last year that the ACLU was looking at: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-pas... The insidious thing about this is …

Dating does suck, absolutely. But fundamentally it's a numbers game -- the more people you meet, the more likely that you'll find someone that you're compatible with on enough leve…

Fair enough. Might I suggest you put a comment to the effect of "indexes are a work in progress" in the README for now? Would help users that just run into it on Github randomly.

A few more features would make it useful for prototyping. The README says that it uses indexes to speed up queries, but it doesn't, at least not in current HEAD (05786eada4); it al…

Based on a paper in 2007: http://allegro.mit.edu/pubs/posted/journal/2007-erez-trott-w... Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8023570

This is exactly my issue with stack-based languages as well; i.e., '(f g h)' vs. '(f (g h))' are pretty easy to distinguish, but both of those would be an identical 'h g f' in a st…

This is exactly my issue with stack-based languages as well; i.e., '(f g h)' vs. '(f (g h))' are pretty easy to distinguish, but both of those would be an identical 'h g f' in a st…