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At the risk of being meta; I think you should vote up when someone contributes to a discussion in a meaningful way, regardless of server you agree or not.

From the article: "We already have contracts with NASA, some private companies, and even a few private individuals."

Why did you stop there though? "...in the startup world..." In fact, I am surprised to see a lot of non-startup companies like Nokia listed quite highly.

I don't, but I can intuitively grasp that a 5-star item with 2 reviews is not reliable. Since I understand how the sorting works, I know I have to jump to the 4.5 star items in ord…

While it is good to look at these sorts of mathematically rigorous algorithms, I think I would be frustrated if it was used everywhere. Or, well, maybe not me perhaps, but a non te…

Not to detract from your main point, but I don't think Siesta is very common in Mexico and most other Latin American countries. I was born in Cuba, lived there for five years and l…

I couldn't help but notice a resemblance between what you are describing and a lot of machine learning algorithms. It seems like the most successful ML algorithms are self-correcti…

The 25% he alludes to is your recurring mortgage payment, which also happens annually--monthly, actually. What he means here is that a discount of 5% in your mortgage negotiations …

The sort of animations intended to teach remind me of the RSA animation which are excellent and I highly recommend them: http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg

+1 for wording it so well. I might add that it also takes a person who is willing to accept full responsibility for his actions and the actions of others in his group since nature …

I agree. I've also found people with hobbies that are dangerous tend to be more mature. For example, people that go hiking, rock climbing, etc... I am not sure why and I am wary of…

That's an entirely different issue than the one I was responding to. In that case, it would be rational if your actions could reasonably affect change, which in this case I don't t…

If most people answered all or most of the questions correctly, it would be disproving Kahneman and Tverksy's theory of how people think. The title assumes they would hate to be pr…

I would dare say unless you're rational, not necessarily an economist. Most of us are not rational all the time, and the whole point of the question is to show an instance where we…

There's many small banks like you say, but the impression I get (I have not done the research to back this up) is that the few really major banks (i.e. Bank of America) have a huge…

If we were talking about the general population, I would agree with you. Something tells me that actuaries are quite rational actors though.

Unless of course the banks agree--off-the-record if need be--to not undercut each other because they realize they will all lose by doing so.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the security question system used by Ally Bank recently. They let you enter your own security question. Why haven't they thought of this before!?…