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I almost never cry but I view it as a problem with the way I deal with stress, which is usually to get angry or withdraw. Recent research has shown that veterans with PTSD who have…

Time saver: Just look at his company's website. Time waster: Rails has won in the same way that PHP and .NET "won" in the 2000s. There are a lot of problems with Ruby, it's sort of…

If you strip away the appeals to emotion, their point seems flimsier in isolation: "Non-European philosophical traditions offer distinctive solutions to problems discussed within E…

That said, David enthusiastically taught us about 100% white dude based approaches to forming a foundation for cognitive science. He's a good politician but I think he ultimately b…

Part of Stallman's motivation for starting the free software movement was that your computer is an extension of your mind, and ubiquitous computer surveillance is basically the sam…

I don't think PG is making an empirical argument, it's based on intuition and then tries to just offer a few instances that are at least nominally consistent with the idea. Nate Si…

That's what she gets for running the company into the ground

I know this is massively simplistic, but a lot of people were predicting the downfall of Apple as soon as Steve's cancer was revealed to the public. A lack of freshness is starting…

I am glad this is happening. Theranos lent credibility to the idea that Silicon Valley technology investors were and are in a position to improve society through funding legitimate…