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By this line of reasoning, shouldn't there be a lot of unattractive women flocking to tech?

"Activism Or Escapism: Making Sense of 21st Century Communes" by M. Jade Aguilar has a lot of references. Text seems to be paywalled, but maybe you can find what you need via Google Books' snippets ...

there is no way to get your documents for backup/archival purposes

https://myaccount.google.com/privacy#takeout

Ok, so it's your first time in, say, Anchorage. How would you use Facebook to find interesting app-guided walks or tours, or a story told using RL locations?

A platform to connect information / stories / images / video / audio to locations. There are thousands of small, mostly subsidized one-off projects but no general platform for everyone to upload material connected to places and create, say, a personal guided tour of their hometown.

a) You don't have to type Russian characters. There's a little switch that lets you input everything in English transliteration. b) There's an explanation right at the beginning on how to install a Russian keyboard layout: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/11449014

You can switch your country settings from Amazon US to Amazon DE and back with no ill effects. I did it several times. You get to keep all Kindle books you bought in both countries. Just follow the link at Amazon DE where the buy button should be and instead it says "Have you moved recently? You may change your country on the Manage Your Content and Devices page."

More like the last 50 or 60 years: "the programming occupation will become extinct (through the further development of self-programming techniques)" (Herbert A. Simon, 1961, and the notion seems to be even older, cf. Janet Abbate's "Re-Coding Gender", page 74-75)

From the same book (p. 84): "Stephanie Shirley, who started a contract programming company in the early 1960s, later recalled: 'When COBOL was introduced, we thought that would be the end of the company, that nobody would be buying software anymore – programming – because it was just so easy.'"

To save you time: Print books offer a superior tactile and typographical experience. You can view them more easily in a bookshelf. DRM is bad. All of which has been said over and over in much shorter articles.

Germany is an exception because there is an actual law that says you're liable if someone else uses your wifi for shady purposes. That's why our routers are password protected out of the box and almost no one will offer open, let alone free wifi. I heard from a hotel owner that this is not just a theoretical danger; he'd paid a high fine once and decided not to offer free wifi any longer.

How exactly is that different from the usual publishers' practice of sending early copies of the book to a ton of reviewers and ask them to, well, review it in newspapers and magazines?

"smart people", noun phrase: People who work in computer science or mathematics.

A variation that actually works as a game: Name the bigger number, but if your number >= double your opponent's number, you lose. 0 and 1 are off limits.

The Flow is as far from waterproof as it gets. It's Neoprene, which means you won't mind getting wet, in fact you'll probably enjoy it. But you'll definitely get wet.

Doesn't a three bedroom apartment actually have four rooms, three of them bedrooms? In Berlin "Dreizimmerwohnung" means that there are three rooms, period. So maybe your calculation is off by one.

Is there a word for letting the world know how great you are by not-so-cleverly disguising your greatness as a shortcoming? There should be. I need it every day.

(Sorry to bother you with this, I actually am quite verbally adept, but English is my twenty-sixth foreign language and even after weeks of practice sometimes the correct word escapes me.)

Snow Crash was published in 1992, not in 1975. Still, this dude got it already.

Edit: Sorry, it's probably just a formatting problem and you were referring to The Shockwave Rider.

From what I understand, mustard gas isn't hard to make at all. ("There are several routes to this compound, none of which require sophisticated technology and/or special materials.", Federation of American Scientists: Chemical Weapons Production and Storage) The process is more or less described in Wikipedia.

This seems rather untrue. "In Nederland worden steeds vaker antidepressiva voorgeschreven. In 2007 kregen 937.000 mensen in totaal 6,7 miljoen recepten tegen depressie voorgeschreven. Het aantal mensen dat antidepressiva gebruikt is sinds 1999 elk jaar met 6 procent gegroeid." (Wikipedia) 937.000 people out of 16 million (5.8%) isn't quite the "11% of women and 5% of men in the non-institutionalized population" Wikipedia has for the US, but it's certainly not "quite the reverse", either.

I run several twitterbots. The ones that autofollow back used to attract large numbers of spammers (until I fixed that). The others don't. I guess the usual spam strategy is "follow - wait a few days for reciprocation - leave if it doesn't happen". So the amount of Twitter spam you see probably depends on your willingness to follow back anyone and everyone just because they follow you.

This is relevant for US readers only. Most countries do not usually fortify juices, milk or yogurt. I don't know about the situation in Singapore (where the study's participants live), but as UVB and vitamin D production remain constant year-round in Singapore I guess their juices and food are not fortified either.

Nothing says "or boyfriend/husband" like a domain that ends in -wives.com.

If I followed this advice, my new full-time, ex-procrastination activity would transform into hard work, and I would seek relief in procrastination - probably doing exactly the thing I just got away from. See also John Perry's seminal essay on "Structured Procrastination": http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

Note, however, that there's newer evidence that says it's not just incompetent people that overestimate their own abilities, but "Kruger and Dunning’s main data is better explained by positing simply that we all have noisy estimates of our ability and of task difficulty." http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/all-are-unaware.html

This seems to be a more boring paraphrase of Nazi general Knut von Hammerstein-Equord's "I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord)

After much bugmenot and cookie hassle I'd recommend the Firefox RefControl add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/953. It lets you set your referrer to http://www.google.com for nytimes.com so NYT thinks you're coming from a Google search and always skips the login page.

The usual explanation for this pilot/surgeon difference is: Surgeons don't go down with their patient.

The research was published in 2007. And it has been discussed here before.

So do I; but then I'm narcoleptic, and sleep-onset (hypnagogic) hallucinations seem to be a symptom of mostly narcolepsy, but also some other sleep disorders: http://www.sleepnet.com/forum3/messages/367.html While having a symphony orchestra play in your head is fun, if you experience other sleep problems, especially excessive daytime drowsiness, maybe you should have it checked out.

Don't worry, no one gets the full picture about how the whole process works. Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" (2007) summarizes some open questions from a hundred years of nutrition research.