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One of the big differences: Mormonism was created in the historical age, there are newspaper accounts[1] of Joseph Smith and his antics. It's harder pill to swallow when your myths…

Did the media incorrectly implicate the actors in that case?

I think everyone understands/expects espionage, it's the public 'weaponization' of the information that makes Russia a particularly bad actor. If Russia had not released the DNC em…

I'm sympathetic to claims of NPR bias (still a big fan), but rather than seeking an "unbiased" source, I want a thoughtful, reasonable, open-minded and well-mannered conservative n…

I'll add: "bombastic, unsupported claims"

This the ultimate policy question: What is a public good? http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/12/10/131784161/what-...

For salaried employees or contract work with capped hours, overtime can also be banked goodwill or converted to flex time. Most office environments I've worked at are not rigidly p…

It's not just Emacs bindings, you can customize system-wide text area navigation (including any well-behaved apps)[1]. It's one of many things I appreciate about OSX. [1]: http://x…

Tyler Cowen addressed this in an interview, saying that the inequality that "really matters" is the difference in your living standard versus your sister's husband[1]. [1]: http://…

"Caplan argues that parents spend too much time trying to influence how their kids will turn out as adults. Using research on twins and adopted children, Caplan argues that nature …

> When I was at the office for a decade, 90% of the insight and productivity came from informal conversations in the hallway, lunches and things I overheard in passing. I could not…

It's historical (medieval) fiction, not fantasy, but Hild ( http://www.amazon.com/Hild-Novel-Nicola-Griffith/dp/12500560... ) is one of the best written books I've read. edit: Jona…

I wonder how much these numbers are a result of a kind selection bias, i.e. women don't put themselves in situations because of natural disposition/perceived higher risk (this is c…

I'm sure for the vast majority of Chrome OS users, the technology powering their device is of no significance compared to a reliable and consistent UI.

Nothing in that disclosure would dissuade (or even give pause to) any of the people I know who use Facebook. "keep a permanent record of the messages you send to your friends" "kee…

I implemented a character manager using TaffyDB[1], loading lots of static data upfront. Made calculations using cross "table" lookups much simpler from a coding perspective. [1] h…

Anybody have a translation for the fish shell prompt?

Unless you have to execute (ba)sh-native scripts in Windows, I find Cygwin way too cumbersome. As I mentioned above, UnxUtils gets you the tooling without the path delimiter headac…

Agree about Cmdr, but I'd add PyCmd[1] and UnxUtils[2]. I've never had much success with Chocolatey (probably due to corporate firewall issues). Gets me acceptably close to bash. […