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I liked the article but do not agree with the conclusion. I think most people know that the "fire" will fade with time intuitively. I am not sure educating people about this would …

"In cryptography, then, it’s not just for idle academic reasons that you’d like a publicly-available trail of research papers and source code, open to criticism and improvement by …

Most of us also commit a crime every time we drive a car by driving over the speed limit. Selective enforcement is pretty wide spread. It would be wonderful if at some point in the…

In a weird way, stories like this remind me just how amazing the internet and games have become. The fact that people can become so immersed into the experience that their brain mi…

One concept that I think is hard to grasp, and makes taking this sort of advice hard to apply, is just how much our default happiness is biologically hard coded. For this reason I …

What does a 12 on a scale of 1 to 10 even mean? What criteria are they judging damages on? So far, I do not think the NSA has lost any of the capabilities it previously had. I have…

I personally think games with level editors are one of the best introductions to programming. My first exposure to "programming" when I was in middle school was using the Warcraft …

In practice, the answer is not always obvious. Benchmarking multiple queries / approaches is generally worthwhile if performance is important.

One way of improving your knowledge is something you have already done. Get another job that will force you to expand your knowledge. I am sure your job experience with your first …

I will be interested to see how this plays out over the next few years. Will these predictions match reality?

I am interested to see how this turns out. The amount of money a person donates each year is roughly fixed. Each non-profit is competing for a splice of that donation. So in some w…