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http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=16... According to that 2008 source (which appears to be pro-railroad) freight rail is up to four times more fuel-efficien…

This story has been circulating the internets for years since the original article. Has there been additional research on the Pirahã?

Adblock does not allow you to dodge the paywall, from personal experience. There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after…

What a great article! I have similar ideas to those thinkers (Brain and Ford), but I've been inspired mostly by reading way too much science fiction! Feels great to learn I'm not j…

Where do you find the 'personalized information' about hiring managers etc? You mention it's important to customize your approach, but don't give any hints about where we're suppos…

Netscape's death throes began in 1998. The 90s tech bubble finally collapsed in early 2000. Assuming this year marks the beginning of Facebook's death throes and extrapolating from…

I wish someone would post an account of a nightmarish experience with a failed startup.

From my defense software experience with Ada 83 and Ada 95, Ada's concurrency features made it much easier to work with than C. Tasks/processes were a top-level feature of the lang…

"You will not be able to purchase this software ever again after the 100 copies are sold." Right... I suppose your copy self-destructs if you attempt to copy it?

Graded homeworks might be used as checkpoints verifying that students are learning key concepts, prior to the exams that are a larger component of the grade. Without these graded c…

Prosper's certainly not making any money itself. What happens when Prosper is out of business? You should try LendingClub instead-they're finally moving toward profitability, and m…

the blogger closed discussion before I could reply so I'll reply on here for what good it does me. Whether a technological singularity is desirable is debatable. Whether developmen…

Chinese: the language so hard the Koreans made a new language!