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This is the exact comment I was hoping to add to this thread, but you beat me to it. This article begs for a straight up "No."

I was hoping to see GO

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Your title suggestion is more accurate, but would probably draw less clicks.

I prefer it when a title is bland, but the content is so astoundingly good. These are little surprises and they still find their way to the front page.

Porn is destructive in itself and should not be dismissed as neutral, even if you've never seen it in your own experiences or in those around you.

Porn is about control. A person tells themselves a false story about their sexuality (even if they can't articulate it or form it into words) that goes something like "I am not satisfied with my current sexual experiences, but if I find the right type of images/videos/fetishes and watch them, I will be satisfied" -- The person fulfills their sexual desires through porn use, but then it doesn't satisfy and they are back for more the next time.

You can't control a real person as easily as porn and so the user continually goes back to porn. Over time the user prefers porn to the other person in the relationship (usually a woman). Women especially, will try to compensate for the gap by comparing themselves to the women in the porn videos, but to no avail and the woman feels more and more dejected.

Heavy porn use also leads to erectile dysfunction and other issues (even if not in a relationship). Some helpful info is here: http://yourbrainonporn.com/

The article also mentions:

"It’s also giving much less weight to college grade point averages and SAT scores"

In 2004 I interviewed for a Creative Maximizer position. I received a glowing review from my brother who was a Googler. I studied all the ins-and-outs of adwords back then and the British interviewer confirmed: "You did very good on the assessment" (which was working through real ads that needs to be maximized). My opinionated experience has been that in these kinds of situations, Brits embellish less than Americans.

However, she told me that my college GPA was "a major question mark" because it was 2.99 and Google only hires people with 3.0 and above (I didn't know what I wanted to do in college). Looking back I'm glad I was never hired, but that burned me bad for a while.

Nintendo is running right behind Sega and should turn itself around as soon as possible.

FICO is crap. All it does is indicate how well you borrow and pay it back. Your credit score should not be a measure of how well you "do what you say you are going to do" -- which is what it has become. The guy in this article is case-and-point--he had a run of bad luck.

There are better ways to measure one's reliability and maybe someone here can disrupt the transunion-equifax-experian trifecta or create a new business out of measuring candidate quality for all kinds of things (rentals, jobs, etc.) that doesn't rely on debt. Even the person who is self-made / cash-only has to contend with this buffoonery.

How many people looked up "aircraft carrier" sales on ebay after reading this article?

Serving others is one of the best ways to get one's mind off oneself and combat depression. I would actually exhort you to commit to doing some kind of service / help for someone else. Start small. Thank you for sharing your story.

A USD has no inherent value since it is also a FIAT currency. At least BitCoin's algorithm is locked into a growth curve that eventually stops. The US can continue to print money. THe way I see it, BTC is going to increase in value.

There are good private companies and bad ones. A good company is going to cut costs where costs need to be cut without sacrificing the quality of the product/service. I'm sure there are a number of good security companies that would provide excellent security, and do it cheaper.

Reminds me of Font Awesome: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

I disagree. I think there are more capable 15 year-olds than others and it's not a comprehensive indicator, but brain development is not complete at that age and therefore having an adequate attention span to competently time keep is arguably more difficult to secure from a 15 year old than a 25 year old.

The volunteers were great, but not perfect. They needed to be more selective about which roles the volunteers were capable of handling. This story comes to mind: http://1045theteam.com/american-tv-neglected-the-saddest-sto...

The timekeeper should not have been a 15 year old kid.

I've been using GIMP for probably 6 or 7 years. The last version of Photoshop I ever opened was version 6 and I hardly remember it. I've been doing web design with it for about the same duration and it is the staple image editor tool I use. I'm the creative director for my company and GIMP has played a major role in my career.

It's not amoral. I've been frustrated myself over domains I couldn't get, but I fail to understand how this is amoral. Too often we are quick to make moral judgments based on distaste (of which I share).

"As is" is still lacking. Reading these comments across almost the entire width of my monitor is not good design. You do get information density, but my belief is that in the case of reading paragraphs, information density is secondary to readability.

I trust Google with my email more than facebook.

Pray together. The rest will follow.

Wildly entertaining read.