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"Slow money" in Neptune's Brood is a digital currency, and is confusingly referred to as a "bitcoin" a few times, but it's actually a really fascinating idea that's very different …

What's to stop people from just running off with your loan? Would you require some sort of tie-in to real-world identity?

This article is weirdly convinced that Microsoft is talking about dual-booting WP and Android, but even the source article they cite says that that's pretty unlikely.

If only we had some sort of rigorous process for evaluating the evidence impartially, and coming up with conclusions, and constantly reevaluating those conclusions when new evidenc…

Keeping an open mind is one thing, but if you ever take what any politician says at face value, then you're nuts.

Politicians like Matt Ridley can say what they like. I'll believe that things have changed when experts in the field begin to say so, and not a moment sooner.

The way I read it, the author is asserting that Microsoft did exactly what a corporation is "supposed" to do, by focusing on maximizing shareholder value, and in the process stagna…

Ah, yes, very logical of you. I think I recognize the form of the proof; isn't this the same basic argument that Fermat used to prove his last theorem? :p Anyway, your point isn't …

Come on, like you're any better. You start off with a dismissal of the author's point based on a completely subjective value judgment, then point out some trivial rhetorical techni…

RAINN's numbers only cover the US, as far as I can see, and the US is only about 5% of the world's population. So if we extrapolate naively from your numbers, we end up with 160,00…

Ouch, sounds like somebody got hit by a really bad batch of drives. Always a risk when you buy a bunch at the same time. :/

You are oversimplifying by assuming that the supply of applicants for a given job is gender-neutral. I think it's generally accepted that one of the causes of the wage gap is that …

Sure, but all the leaks so far are about cases where your data is already going through Microsoft services. If there were any evidence that there was a backdoor in Windows itself, …

So... does that mean that it's right? Because I don't think you can prove a point by assuming the existence of things that haven't been invented yet.

> Aren't you curious why the majority of programmers have dark hair or brown eyes? Sometimes it doesn't matter. Is that actually true? If there's a statistically significant differ…

And... you're satisfied with that explanation? "There are fewer women in technical careers, because fewer women choose to go into technical careers, QED"? You're not even a little …

But top schools like that admit (and I'm completely making this number up, based on average class size for a school like that) on the order of tens of thousands of students per yea…