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This is a fantastic talk, thank you for the link! It covers much more than even the Lockdown article and the questions from the audience at the end are both interesting and lead to…

Ordinary users only care about cost, choice and being limited - in that order. Not only are Android phones cheaper than Apple, including pricing plans, but there are a lot more And…

Fake IP poisoning from the tracker? Unless "YouHaveDownloaded.com" actually connected to this IP as part of that torrent, this seems highly unlikely to be real.

Informative, but strange circular arguments in that article, especially from a scientific process perspective. There are a ton of questions that Higgs cannot answer already and yet…

Yes, he's trying to wean China off molten salt reactor development, specifically reactors like the LFTR. China is basically the only market for fission reactors left. They are the …

" China gets to be first (and Thorium reactor products cannot be easily weaponized) " You do realise that Bill Gates owns and backs an opposing technology? Hint: it is not thorium …

The first MMO TLC (Massively Multiplayer Online Translating Language Collaboration)?

That link is worth the giggle. Thanks :) America makes all other rich nation's provincials look like Einsteins!

You are generalising and taking too much at face value. I went to Oxbridge (not going to say which) for my first uni and also interviewed at several colleges, as well as many of my…

Based on Leynos's well-written post, I initially thought the exact same thing. Then, I realised that Google runs Youtube, remembered all the recent changes in particular, my face t…

The only thing correct in that article is that the guy is a "first-year analyst". It's as if he's only read a book or gone through some terribad training and has no idea the size, …

I don't think I've ever seen such a flagrant abuse of fiduciary duty before! I thought bankers were the untrustworthy ones. Now potentially your own dentist/doctor...?

Exactly. Good post. These kind of events can and routinely escalate just due to fear alone. It is also often at the expense of specific colored individuals.

Exactly. Printing is also a fiscal policy that happens to be implemented by central banks. Without a fiscal backing for unlimited asset purchases or printing money, no central bank…

Wrong. The UK and Ireland have never been part of the Schengen Area and have specific exemptions just for them in the Schengen Agreement. Also, EU Directive 2004/38/EC is not the s…

1. A peg is not a common currency/currency union. Critically, you readily come on and off a peg. 2. Various types of gold standards have failed many times in history, including peg…

Excellent post. 1) you can't have a currency union, without a fiscal union; - correct. 2) you can't have a fiscal union, without a true political union; - unknown, but history is o…

The author completely misses the point that programming languages are every bit as much human-to-human interaction as human-to-machine, i.e. programming languages happen to be text…

Damned if you and damned if you dont. All the people in this thread, including Google-related users, are trying to do is figure out what changed . That could just as easily have be…

Epic Groupon poem, especially for those who do not understand why this is price action is happening! http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/10/30/groupoem/ Here are the first three …

Subversion is a centralised or push model. Git is a distributed or pull model. This is at the heart of the processes one may use, certainly within a project but possibly at cross-p…