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...and I could not find the word "correlation" anywhere in this article discussion statistics, harm, misunderstanding, and studies. Shame.

I'd like the people that -1'd me to explain why I'm wrong. No matter how much defense you put up, if you are accessible, you are at risk for unauthorized use of data. Employing onl…

The best security: be honest and place complete trust in those you employ. Hire people you trust. If there is nothing that is blocking you, then morale is higher, and people get mo…

A large organization I'm very aware of used such a strategy for their investments.

54% chance to have made money if you bet on any of these exclusively from IPO. That's a good reason to diversify over everything, or better yet, wait and then go with the ones who'…

> Tobacco and Alcohol companies would likely suffer as a result of drug legalisation, like cannabis. To state this in another way- think of all of the Budweiser/Bud Light sponsorsh…

I'm curious- what do you think of Fedora? It's in the top 5 distros along with OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint, and yet I hardly ever hear people talk about it. I had personally…

> It isn't his fault the managers were being unreasonable in the timeline, and the company grossly over-manufactured the cartridges. Yes, the real problem is that they expected som…

Played that game for a good hour and a half at least. Fun for the whole family. Also, Desert Bus for Hope raises money for charity: https://desertbus.org/ At time of writing, they'…

I played it a lot. I can't say I ever enjoyed it. It was a frustrating game with very little reward.

Yes, fingers kept typing wrong word.

If you want to learn much more about this, watch the movie, "Atari: Game Over": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715406/

Good to know it is just this organization having the awful ideas. ;) Btw- I've worked with some great Dutch developers and am in awe of all of the talent there from the things I've…

So true. And since you've gone the intellectual route, I'll choose the emotional one: I propose the Dutch don't like English because their language is also bastardization of differ…

Just don't try to shut it down. "We love you, Skynet! We just need to do some routine maintenance."

> I'm not sure that github is the problem. Agreed. Quote from nzakas who suggested the move: "It's not just that the GitHub experience is suboptimal, it's that it aggressively unde…

Protons are said to be massless, but a proton may have mass that is so small that we cannot measure it easily. We can't currently say with 100% certainty that it is massless- only …

> Force carrying particles in general don't have mass. Massless particles don't have energy. Massless and energyless particles have no speed. I have no interest in massless and ene…

Neat site. Someone should make a screensaver like the last two random attractors on: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/ http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/explore1.jpg h…

Have been on board with this idea for some time, but, that said, here's some criticism of the specifics: > Is there existing software that could be used instead? Agree, up to a poi…

> Depends where you are and on your circle of friends. chess.com > I always found the fancy carved sets harder to play with than a basic one Me also. > That seems a bizarre thing t…

> Chess is an inelegant ruleset. En passant and castling may seem inelegant to you, but to me they make it more interesting. Also, Chess is an Olympic sport, you can find people al…