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And they do this while putting out a doublespeak public statement saying they don't do things like banning subreddits (but reserve the right to), and were not legally required to i…

MetaFilter at least has the advantage of being old and respected enough in tech circles to get the attention of Hacker News and Matt Cutts himself when something like this happens.…

This will come off as a strawman, but the same could be said for every drug ever prescribed. There's absolutely no way to quantify the effects an "unnatural" molecule will have on …

I noticed when I uploaded an image a few days ago, the "direct link to image" field was missing entirely. I figured it was meant to curb direct hotlinking.

In addition to the PLOS series of journals, there are also other modern open-access journals popping up like PeerJ (peerj.com) and elife (elife.elifesciences.org). Anyone can go on…

I played Diablo 1 and 2 for many years, and pre-ordered Diablo 3 like you. I ended up playing for a few weeks and haven't touched it since for the following reasons: The auction sy…

>tried I waited 2 hours for an email yesterday only to find it hidden in a new "Promotions" tab instead of my inbox, which meant it didn't get pushed to my phone for some reason.

This is probably one of my largest complaints about a google product at the moment. It feels like they're trying to trick me in to doing it with that invasive pop-up I get every we…

Exactly, I'm not sure why this suddenly became news. Did nobody bother to tap a name in their friends list in the last 6 months?

That's why ab initio protein structure prediction is such a sought-after tool in bioinformatics. You can have an incredibly high degree of nucleotide/amino acid substitution betwee…

The "consumers hate us because of homosexuality in our games" is a PR move from EA to cover the fact they were voted worst company in America for reasons that have nothing to do wi…

I was just having a conversation with my supervisor yesterday about how amazing the PLINK project is, and how much easier it makes my work. I use it every day and I can't count the…