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As soon as I saw "nuclear", I was put off. Not because I have anything against nuclear power (in fact I am fully convinced of its potential), but because of the way people perceive…

Thanks, but no thanks to FDA approved or "scientifically" structured and tested and accredited health recommendations for me. I am willing to put to test the the traditional practi…

Why would one want to ignore beneficial knowledge received in the form of tradition? To be able to re-invent the wheel?

Any chance of getting access to the diagram you mention?

I was looking at a few SaaS analytics products and was wondering as to how these companies were storing data from their customers/clients. For e.g., Company A has PostgreSQL and Co…

Is there a way to contact you?

Decoy is unnecessarily pejorative here. This is known as price anchoring. Anchoring is an influence tactic based on human psychological bias. I am not really sure why ethics would …

Just a thought - Why not reverse the phone number string and if there is a match in the first N digits of all the above phone numbers, then classify these as the same phone number?…

And very few people have reason to learn LISP or programming languages, for that matter. (If we are generalizing, we might as well go the full length and include the entire world p…

Have you ever tried to understand the rationale behind a religious ritual? Not from your viewpoint - but from the viewpoint of why such a ritual came into existence? Did you equip …

Forgive my naivete, but what is the point you are trying to make here? Or is this an attempt at creating some kind of fallacy?

>>> Even the Nobel laureate scientist C.V Raman opposed space explorations in his time, saying that they are meddling with Gods. Could you provide some citation here? As far as CV …

The dollar equivalent of the value the companies get in return would be an order of magnitude more than what Kaggle charges the companies/clients that sponsor the contests.

Kaggle is an interesting site. But the cynic in me says these contests/competitions are just a cheap way of effort harvesting. For a pittance, the companies sponsoring these contes…

Very insightful and open. The point that stood out was how selling trumped all other tasks/activities. The same thing was echoed by PG in the inc.com article that was posted recent…

As mentioned elsewhere here, Modern Money Mechanics booklet published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is a very good read. It explains the concept of "money" at a very funda…

And why would you want to bring religion into this discussion?