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The "I am trustworthy" part is totally taken for granted and too many supposedly trustworthy people lie straight to the public face just to maintain the narrative they are pursuing…

I don't think shipping every week is a good idea or sustainable. At what point do you take away features that are no longer useful or don't work out? Or does the ball of mud accumu…

One area where curation will fail is in "fancy bias". As in, the same bias that keeps crowd pleasing entertainment from winning awards. People who are in the curation business (cri…

One could make a case that the nation was better off when not everyone was forced into being a two income household and more parents stayed home to raise their children. Closer kni…

Sounds a lot like "This Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop" meme articles from the early 2000's.

On a largely content based app/site, most of "scaling" comes down to caching. However you do that is up to you, but somewhere between caching at the browser layer, proxy layer, web…

Some people hate pair programming. I happen to be one of them. It kills my personal job enjoyment/satisfaction and if I was coerced into pair programming too often, I would find a …

Note that this story has been told and retold for years. Whatever difference in pay he paid has more than paid for itself in press attention and marketing.

I think Kinect would have been fine if they didn't bundle it with the XBox One. As in, it would have been a solid niche input device, but most games don't need it or benefit greatl…

We have a collective based system, not an individual based one. So everybody goes to the same schools with the same curriculum with the same baseline opportunities. It's not optimi…

This model is sort of absurd. It doesn't take into account the most important factor... people. If you made a model of the world today back in 1920, it would be comical. Imagine yo…

Competitive sports(or anything else) at a high enough level is more about genetic selection than training. The training reveals and reinforces potential and is obviously necessary,…

Now that people in the western world have largely abandoned churches for their attitudes toward "sin" and morality, they replaced churches with corporations, media companies, and g…

Note that peer groups have a lot to do with thinking problems in general. If you are poor or broke and hang out with poor or broke people, your thinking will be different. Also, pe…

It's an invented problem based on a belief that we control the planet. Yet, if we DID control the planet, we could simply fix it. What if the planet got warmer without our input? W…

The real irony is if we truly did solve Global Warming, the propaganda machine would either decide we are creating carbon emissions from something else, or go create a new global c…

Reinventing the wheel is a good idea. It's how you learn. Programmers who say "don't reinvent the wheel" don't understand how the craft of wheel making works.

University isn't utopia. Not everyone wants to live there. Also, there aren't enough university research dollars to adaquately fund AI research relative to the current demand. This…

I think the Google Pixel 3a is the best reasonably sized and reasonably priced phone for most people. Performance is good, camera is great, price is sensible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Better idea... give out AOL CD's.

"It's a trap!" -Admiral Ackbar

It's not taking a risk if you have a safety net. That is the point of the safety net, to eliminate the risk.

It is worth listening to the Dave Ramsey podcast just to understand how people spend their money foolishly. Yes, there is bad luck and lack of opportunity, and there is also boatlo…

So are climate scientists.