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It's a catchy title and so-so article, but I have to be autistic and point out that "X isn't about Y" is almost always false: rather it should be "X isn't (only|mostly) about Y". C…

As with post-modernism (which this is simply a late stage manifestation of) you shouldn't blame the superficial reaction, you should blame the initial problem, which was architectu…

> Unfortunately, the more difficult it is to gather experimental evidence (as it is psychology), the more this desire takes over, I think. And doubly unfortunately, even the gather…

This makes far more sense than apples touch bar, especially if it was modal with a few different keys that brought up different screens.

That is simply emotional nonsense, on par with young earth creationism. The heritability and heredity of intelligence, for example, has been established beyond all reasonable doubt…

Eugenics has a bad name, but it is scientifically valid. We now know that genetics play a huge role in life outcomes (e.g. adult IQ appears to be 70-80% heritable) and, for better …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LY3_tC_thc

It is worth meditating on the fact that such a terrible idea was and is able to dominate the visual design community for so long without any significant push back. It has caused re…

Your weekly reminder that flat ui (and its derivatives, like material UI) are big steps backwards in usability: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/ Granting the validity …

Javascript is the Chauncey Gardiner of programming languages. It was there.

Yes, that is a great book as well. I think "From Bauhause to Our House" is more important because we can survive a period of terrible art: most people will simply ignore it and whe…

Very sad to hear. His book "From Bauhaus to Our House" changed my life, finally giving me a plausible explanation as to how we managed to create such a horrific built environment p…

Setting aside the logical impossibility of people f-king up but not f-king down, that is not true at all: men will f-ck down quite readily if it is convenient and there is low comm…

> - the world is dividing into “social haves” and “social have-nots”. It’s not a surprise that as wealth and inequality have taken off dramatically, we’d see social and sexual repe…

I am saying that the evidence suggests that 70-80% of adult[1] intelligence is based on genetic factors (that is distinct from heritability, which is lower, ~60% iirc) leaving the …

That is not true. Adult intelligence appears to be ~70-80% based on genetic factors. See The Neuroscience of Intelligence by Richard Haier for an overview of the current consensus …

The consensus amongst intelligence researchers is that adult intelligence is ~70-80% based on genetic factors. I refer you to The Neuroscience of Intelligence - Cambridge Fundament…

Meanwhile economists STILL bang on about ricardian free trade while, out the other side of their mouth, talking gleefully about the fading usefulness, way of life and, ultimately, …

there was a movie about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)

The elite code of conduct: Do what thou wilt, but for goodness sake don't say anything about it

Carry the five, add the expected ego crushing, broken relationships and ulcers... I get infinity. It costs infinity to build a startup.

Because, like monarchy, they are still the least worst option when considering both the OS and hardware combined, for most people. The issues with the latest macbooks are real and …

I have seen more technical damage done by nice and competent people deferring to bullies in the workplace than by legitimate disagreements expressed passionately.

I expected an account of how luck is a necessary condition in unusual success. I had a faint hope that the author would be intelligent enough to recognize that it was not a suffici…