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I'm won't claim that universities don't have a problem with adminstrative bloat, but looking at simple top-line numbers like number of non-teaching staff can easily be misleading. …

"If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to…

upvoting not because I think the article is great, but because I want someone to tell me (a magit user) why jj is better than using magit to interact wit git!

AFAIK, evidence is pretty clear that delaying marriage (up to a point!) reduces the likelihood of getting divorced. https://ifstudies.org/blog/want-to-avoid-divorce-wait-to-get... …

I'm not sure what you mean by "premise", but I really hope that the justification for "treating everyone equally under the law (or otherwise)" is not because doing so "helps prove …

"the notion of counter-elites: those who are groomed for power and then excluded from it ... The tech industry is a better example ... Peter Thiel (classic counter elite Stanford-t…

The article is too long and too wordy, but it provides many links to published studies on the effects of porn on the brain.

"In particular, there are ongoing efforts to try to make it the normal thing for scientists to make the programs they ran on their data available so that their results can be repro…

Unless I am very badly misunderstanding TED, it provides none of the things that churches provide for their members. Some of these things are described succinctly but clearly in th…

I've read Griffiths, most of Shankar, some of Sakurai, and some of Feynman. Of those, I would say Griffiths is the best option for someone with your background. It's short enough t…

I like the thought process here (looking at aggregates), but this analysis is simplified to the point of uselessness. For example, since you are talking about houses I think the re…

Most of the comments here are completely missing the point of the article. The article is not about whether the ideas espoused by old philosophers are worth learning about, or abou…

You need to write down the 1-1 correspondence you are proposing. Don't describe it in words, actually start writing the natural numbers in one column and the corresponding reals in…

How leaky is the abstraction? Can you effectively use this with very little prior knowledge of front-end web development? And what is the state of F# on Linux these days?

You are qualifying this with the word "successful", but is it really the case that high-quality candidates are putting up with temp contracting roles in lieu of an immediate "perma…

While it's true that NIST SP 800-63 gives 44 bits of entropy for the comic's password, this is purely a coincidence. The comic certainly isn't using using NIST SP 800-63 to calcula…

Do you really think that Amazon is doing something that they believe will lose customers so that they can make a point to about how they are smarter than stock analysts? I have a v…

"This paper has already seen more, meaningful, peer review that most papers Nature publishes ..." I really don't think that this is true. The useful bit of peer review is changes m…

Thank you. I can appreciate that it's difficult to implement good interactive plotting, especially across platforms. It's also very very important!

How good is the interactive plotting experience?

"If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he's 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement." Your idea here seems to…

MRI machines don't actually use liquid cryogens, do they? Surely some kind of cryocooler would be simpler and cheaper?

Please read the article. This example actually supports his thesis that "as long as it is possible for counterspies to generate misleading information most of the time, spies are u…

The UN was founded after the nuclear bombs were dropped.

In order to truly understand the madness at play here, we really need to know how the list of email addresses was generated.