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One weird trick: sit at the very front of your chair with your thighs pitched down, weight resting on your butt. That will angle your pelvis forward, closer to a standing position.…

For a flavor of the content that is being reminisced, an old favorite: https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcri...

Prominently featured in a recent documentary on manufacturing in Shenzhen. Recommended: http://www.wired.co.uk/video/shenzhen-full-documentary

Per Neuroskeptic's due diligence, human effects don't look promising. >>> This is a citation to one of their own papers, from 2012. There’s just one problem – as far as I can see t…

Also available as python/R packages- pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brewer2mpl/1.4.1 cran: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RColorBrewer/index.h...

I like to explain it with a wager: pick a star from the night's sky. If you pick the star I'm thinking of, I'll give you a dollar. After you've made your selection, I'll give you t…

Tongue in cheek? Alternatively, you should know about: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas...

If anyone is looking for a starting point to Gardner's vast works, I highly recommend "Aha! Insight."

MS backend dev here. Are you referring to the Mighty Spring position? We are automagically matching new signups to our own open positions to both dogfood our product and give users…

Mighty Spring backend dev here. The short answer is yes, but there are not many remote-only jobs right now (beta and what-have-you). That will hopefully soon change. Candidate affo…

I think a useful conversation to have is, "how quickly we can replace politicians with robots?" A political discourse addressing the topic would necessarily acknowledge the radical…

Coming from an investment management background, it has been hilarious to see people espousing all manner of foolish nostrums about tech hiring, showcasing biases that have proper …

I would reframe the suggestion as two ideas. 1) "hire for your culture" and 2) conditioning on a cultural expectation of individuals putting up with lots of problems on their own, …

If I'm going to be automating jobs away, they may as well be jobs that are generally loathed. FD: MS engineer participant

Looks like someone there got a hold of Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint "the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made …

Some relevant points for engineers addressed here: http://blog.mightyspring.com/post/74827679281/battling-outsi... Know who (with)holds information Avoid information asymmetry

An interesting thought experiment that should be informing more of the discussion is to take inevitability for granted. If mass surveillance does exist, the concern becomes equalit…

I find Terrence McKenna's argument that consciousness is demonstrably entangled in the material world at a quantum mechanical, atomic level convincing. To summarize, it is known th…

Given the asymmetry in the difficulty market participants have with selling (and withdrawal in fiat, in a timely manner) or shorting bitcoin, as compared to the effort involved in …

If you suppress prices, you reduce supply. Demand remains high, supply is now artificially low. One unspoken benefit of this history of wage suppression is the dearth of engineerin…

I always explain this problem with stars: I'm thinking of a star in the night's sky... guess which one. Alright, good guess, but would you consider changing? You can either keep yo…

Step one (always): Look at your data. Only then should you choose the statistic(s) you 'care' about.