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> Regression analysis was used to estimate wage differences, after controlling for the following choices and characteristics: graduates’ occupation, economic sector, hours worked, …

> Something like "Appendable" might be more appropriate for C++. So I can append False to True to get False (Boolean monoid under &&) or append 8 to 9 to get 72 (integer monoid und…

I want an "Ask me about Roko's basilisk!" button.

Under your Google scenario, presumably the person using Google Maps on Android wasn't operating as a driver working for Google. Uber hired him to drive cars, so they're liable for …

Apparently in American English it can either be pronounced 'key', 'kay' or 'kway'.

> The one place where we only care what is inside peoples heads and not their feelings? Are you saying feelings aren't inside people's heads?

Well, 'beautiful' is to a certain extent a subjective quality. 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful is X' can be interpreted as 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful to me is X', and that's n…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

> However, Github holds people accountable for actually having to program - funny how meritocracy came up as a bad word to these people! Uh, no it doesn't? There are plenty of reas…

What's the joke?

> I made it through multivariable calculus and grads and so forth, but the computer scientist in me gets upset when I run into undefined or poorly specified notation. Well, at the …

> Opposition to speed-limit cameras exposes the absurdity of most speed-limit laws: it's a law so bad many (most?) people are opposed to having it strictly enforced. If that's not …

> Sure, they have their bad moments (pun intended), being caught uploading users' address books, spamming user's friends with invites and perhaps paying for downloads. No one's per…

What's this weird fake AAVE lorem ipsum thing that this page links as a demo? Is the joke 'haha black people talk funny'?

Conversely: with an ebook reader, you can bring your entire collection with you wherever you go, and you can add to it from the device without having to wait 2 days, pay shipping, …

The attribution of things to 'ancient Native American proverbs' is reminiscent of the whole 'noble savage' trope.

The problem is that you can have backwards flow , not just backwards pressure, because water has to be conserved.

> Three quarters work, and one quarter do not. What's the unemployment rate in the USA now? If you include those who've 'given up' looking for work or whatever, I think it's around…

> You're a hacker when a hacker calls you a hacker. All that "being able to self-identify" is narcissism. Hackers have called me a hacker, therefore I'm a hacker. I now declare tha…

> It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to wor…

The language doesn't support loops; in terms of flow control, you get if statements and that's it. So probably not much of interest.

> The humanities are still trying to recover from that one. In much the same way that 'science' is still recovering from prestigious journals publishing results that mysteriously f…

> For the record, the only other male dominated job category is janitors but I somehow doubt it faces similar outrage by the gender equality knight templars. I'm really curious whe…

> How is what Rap Genius is doing any different than Amazon or iTunes paying you for affiliate links, or you paying a blog to advertise you, or buying a friend a beer to include a …