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Scientists rely on faith too; hypothesis testing being the most obvious example. New beliefs are always conditioned on faith(:= prior beliefs).

What if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.

> So half the planet is incapable of learning what clickbait is and only you can resist it? Are you suggesting that this was my contention?!---I fall for click bait all the time. >…

> The reason why people continue to visit all those sites and click all those links?---Because they like it. This is disingenuous; there are people who dedicate their working life …

Does this ``gap" reduce as the employees considered get younger?---the data source doesn't include age demographics.

I thought they went after her (Gillian Triggs) because she delayed releasing the report until 1) after a government-changing election result, and 2) the majority of children had be…

1. The readability and typography are (to me) stellar. Would that more websites present information that clearly. 2. The author doesn't dislike systemd.

So many Google sites have 1/3-of-a-page fixed headers; fixed headers suck.

This[1] bug from 2012 is the reason I switched; 30 months (still incrementing) to fix a massive usability break seems slow to me. 1. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detai…

Any plans for an option to switch off all those avatars?

An excerpt from the excerpt: > Schmidt arrived first, accompanied by his then partner, Lisa Shields. When he introduced her as a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations—…

I throw these eye-candy Google websites into a text-only browser and start /'ing; it is _way_ easier to find the info you're looking for.

I've been playing around with julia[1] this week and discovered the inclusion of a pipe-like operator that removes a lot of the parentheses from functional programming; you can wri…

On mobile I dislike all of the kinematics. If you're composing a message and scroll up to quickly reread something, the keyboard will fly off the screen; getting it back requires t…

I can't speak for the others, but w3m definitely has graphics support.