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...is there anywhere this is not true?

Note that they changed it to 280. It's possible to express a slightly more nuanced view in a tweet now. You've got room for a brief hedge or caveat along with your main point.

Hmm, availability heuristic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

1. One observation about diversity discussions: improved outcomes from diversity are credited to diversity. But worsened outcomes from diversity aren't blamed on diversity. If you'…

Uh, I wouldn't know myself, but my friend informs me that tons of pornography is available just through Google Image Search. Does the UK have a plan to block that, or to force Goog…

My personal guess is that adolescent male humans have basically evolved to fight for survival and mating opportunities in violent Stone Age tribal societies. And the prefrontal cor…

SomethingAwful.com had (perhaps it still has, haven't been in a while) some incredible forums because membership was $10. If you got banned you had to pay up to get access again. T…

How do you hold people accountable without compromising anonymity, though? And if you compromise anonymity, how do you avoid a chilling effect on those who depend on it for e.g., p…

Focusing on rape and homicide threats here. I assume they are a very small proportion of feedback. On the other hand, in my current non-game-development career, customers never thr…

There are several reasons I am a skeptic of accounts of willpower from elite military sources: * Military life has social aspects -- like powerful authorities and close knit teams …