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If you care about provenance, as I do, let me save you some Googling: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy Daniel J. Solove George Washington Universit…

The kinds of questions you're asking aren't necessarily covered systematically in CS curricula either unless you specifically take a networking course, and even then, depending on …

Did you read the article? The journalist is in fact saying that the "digital divide" doesn't exist because that conceptualization of the issue is too simple and doesn't leave room …

Just a personal viewpoint based on the limited information available (and not meant as a personal knock on the OP since I don't know him or his particular situation in detail): I w…

It's a fascinating complement to the "apple supply chain" articles that were making the front page a while back. None of the articles I read mentioned China's rare-earth mineral ex…

Definitely agree: they have everything in place for this. Having a personal relationship with that many small business owners around the country is huge and there's so much low-han…

They do -- when I was an undergrad there was a zip file that made the rounds with textbooks and old exams for many of the core courses.

Haha, nope, lots of PhD students and junior profs that have their act together.

Seconded. Some of the most successful academics I know keep regular 9-5 hours and leave their work at the office, have spouses and children, etc. I've noticed a lot of them are fan…

I can't speak to that, except what my British advisor said =)

Just for full disclosure, I did the same, in that I did research and publication as an undergrad, worked in industry briefly and then went back to do a PhD (in my case, I had gotte…

I recently left my PhD program too (I'm "mastering out" in local parlance ;)) and what this post doesn't address is what I found to be the hardest part: making a decision to leave …

Think of it as a heuristic tool to analyze and evaluate human behavior when you need it. And if you find it useful, try learning the basics of a few other frameworks and/or theorie…

I must have been very fortunate to have, on the whole, great teachers that cared deeply about their work. But then again, my parents made it a point to make sure we lived in less-t…

I've been reading up recently on dog training since I'm watching my parents' unruly dog for a few weeks and it's remarkable how similar the keys to training a well-behaved dog are …

> the insidious thing about alcohol is that it clouds your judgement and makes abuse more likely. So you've had a few drinks and you're having fun, hanging out with friends, feelin…

Cut those employee time figures by half -- FT employees cost a company about twice as much as the base salary. And even then, your designer and marketer figures are way low, even i…

This Forbes blog post provides some context regarding the culture of publicly traded companies, earnings guidance and "maximizing shareholder value": http://www.forbes.com/sites/st…

The author has a very limited view of the function of universities. There was recent longitudinal study that confirmed what many of us who attended college already know: a vast num…

Your grandparent post took the argument farther than just saying that evolution has given men and women certain tendencies or proclivities (as an aggregate, allowing for the massiv…