dubcomesaveme

to continue his human monkey analogy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk

"They knew that mobile devices would overtake PCs." For productivity work, people usually prefer to remain stationary and use monitors larger than 4". They are not competing products. Ludicrous.

subscription fees + time invested in leveling = sunk costs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...

players will spend more time playing than they would otherwise want to due to their perception of sunk costs, hours of gameplay provided expands to meet this demand with a grinding mechanism being the cheapest type of gameplay to offer

Governments are basically corporations with varying degrees of public ownership that have monopolies on societal goods. I would consider this corporate espionage.

The US also engages in corporate espionage through the NSA in the interest of its defense contractors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#ECHELO... (last paragraph)

from article: "Finally, the NSA has a rich history of monitoring the communications of Americans – sometimes legally, sometimes not."

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT&T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Global warming WILL occur, regardless of man.

The question is what is the value of the subcomponent of temperature variation caused by man. I would argue that it is nearly impossible to isolate this value. It would require models of every other natural cause of temperature variation, from the galactic position of the solar system to the water cycle, and confidence estimates of these models. Weather is a prototypically complex and chaotic system.

Rather than allocating resources based on an answer to a nearly impossible to answer question, we should tackle questions that are more solvable like "relation between cancer rates and environmental pollution" (aka things that could have the same policy effect i.e. curbing emmisions) and remember that acute, immediate events can have a far more deleterious effect on global temperature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

wow.

The only backward value apparent from this article is an extreme defecit in holding people accountable. One could argue that every other value must be phenomenal since it is still a thriving city despite this impairment.

incomplete combustion\plenty of other stuff in the ground in it(heavy metals etc.). The smoke is not just CO2.

Plus " sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the primary causes of acid rain. In the US, About 2/3 of all SO2 and 1/4 of all NOx comes from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels like coal." http://www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/acid_rain.s...

and acid rain causes a number of environmental problems.

u.s. nuclear reactors have always been safe: if a loss of coolant failure occurs the reaction is designed to slow down rather than speed up soviet cheronobyl style.

the concern is what to do with all the junk from processing\using fuel rods and depleted uranium besides dumping it on Iraqis via munitions.

I think this notion was already captured in 1929 by Freud with 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents

He more broadly introduced the idea of Tools as Prostheses. Telephones can be considered prosthetic ears: they can extend your power of hearing across continents. Ships can be considered prosthetic feet, they extend your power of travel, etc.

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times. ... Future ages will bring with them new and possibly unimaginably great advances in this field of civilization and will increase man's likeness to God still more."

looks like they need to find one given the state of links on their main index (in Opera at least)

What, hackers don't get enough sunlight? guffaw!

All mac, no dual monitors, they honestly put some sort of flame decal on that table, and minimalism is not one of their design philosophies.

In summary, needs more Helvetica.

ha, myself a physics to economics to cognitive science major early in college, now settling in on Computer Science to sit down, gear down, and actually MAKE some stuff.

In the short term, it's a financial drain to spend extra time during your college years to try everything that interests you. But in the long run... WHO CARES. Better to spend a couple years finding yourself in your early 20s than having a mid-life crisis when you're 40.

"Coffee isn't a drug _or something_". lol.

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

First picture caption: "Coffee is the most widely used psychotropic beverage in the world. In 1999 the average consumption of coffee was 3.5 cups per day per U.S. citizen."

Caffeine is a CNS stimulant\adenosine receptor antagonist. It increases wakefulness\helps focused thought but impairs memory. It's a stimulant drug, not a very good stimulant drug, but the most commonly used one with a large social presence.

Vastly superior safe legal stimulants imo: Rhodilia Rosea, L-Tyrosine, Cocoa, Galantamine, Spirulina

Others legal ones I know a lot of people swear by: Piracetam. (and relatives such as Oxiracetam, Aniracetam) Becoming decently common among college students.

Adderall is also EVERYWHERE you look in competitive colleges, but long term amphetamine use is a very bad idea in terms of burnout unless you are super human like Paul Erdos, and its a controlled substance.