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> you may have experienced no amount of good parenting can protect us from real badness

I am a software engineer, and also a luddite. technology destroys jobs. the question is whether that destruction liberates or oppresses. do we fire some workers and overwork others…

> When they think like children, talk like children, and act like children, they shouldn't be surprised that they're treated like children. and does punishing children cause them t…

> we sure don't patronize them, think them any less, or dismiss their and so many other people's genuine concerns be it immigration, or crime, or job security great! perhaps you ha…

> Someone is going to build them if they can make a buck doing it, and empathy isn't going to somehow stop that. the problem is that we are all chasing that buck, rather than imagi…

one point is that most of SV's technology is in the hands of an elite of techno-libertarians and super-rich VCs with various chips on various shoulders. they have no interest in sp…

nicely written. reconciliation is not like the movies, it requires from us steadfastness and courage in the face of criticism and outright character assasination. as engineers we s…

drawing attention to a deep and abiding ideology here: economics often presents itself as a science describing a universal and indeed physical phenomenon. remember that "the market…

Yarn came out this month

we're certainly capable of creating the most complex models – what's interesting about this very human tendency is that the models begin to take on a reality of their own, replacin…

good observation. makes me think also about the tendency of computers and the internet to actually slow us down in our work! their general-purpose nature means that our minds take …

technology has no purpose. it is a natural phenomenon that arises without any in-built ethics or direction. technology can manifest as a tool (to amplify human potential) or a mach…

Death makes space for new life, and new strategies. It's a key part of the evolutionary process, and thus of life itself. Yet another sign of the desperate egocentrism of a generat…

not sure why this has been downvoted, it's important to consider divination systems as fundamentally about exploring the psyche and its parameter space (which Jung – one of the fat…

So I suppose terrorists are like goths.

I can't imagine a parachute is that useful on a sinking ship

Indeed – illustrates very clearly how governments, institutions and corporations aren't the unified hierarchies they present themselves as, and instead can be many-headed organisms…

Most of this bailout money will go straight back to paying interest on the bad loans that caused the crisis. Much of these loans came from banks in the very same Eurozone countries…

I'll just leave this here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/29/where-did-the-g...

I think you've misread the abstract. My understanding is that the 10nT field was the control. They talk about 1-10 uT fields causing the observed effect.

Here in the UK I get my decaf coffee through the mail from https://www.pactcoffee.com – it's bloody delicious.

there's some beautiful work here, plus code http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

My opinion is that most of the bad habits of inexperienced programmers are just manifestations of more general youthful hubris and inexperience in the nuances and complexities of l…