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They don't trust you. You should go and look for a new job.

I studied in Crerar many joyful times, though long after your tenure there, in the 2010s. It's a great, quiet library. One of my favorites on campus.

It's California. Non-competes are void. It is one of the few states where non-competes are not legally enforceable.

Besides the point, but FYI you are misusing the term parsimonious.

The Facure text is good, can confirm

You're being overly dismissive. There's quite clearly a substantial amount of research here, and in a cursory reading I detected no explicitly bombastic claims, which are usually indicative of crankwork.

Sure, it's not peer-reviewed, and his other articles might look quite loony, but he does highlight some anthropological discrepancies in this piece. Not everyone can have their articles peer-reviewed.

I'd like to remark that there's a similar trend that seems to go on in high schools and with college admissions. By all accounts, I've heard that it's not too difficult to attain perfect high-school grades (save for some of the very competitive high schools), whereas that's usually a serious achievement in European schools. There's a similar comparison for the AP vs. IB examinations.

I think you mean "that y is far larger than x"

Is that a joke?

That's amazing. I really hope that more research is done in (stem) cells. It shows outstanding promise, and it seems safe to assume that this is just the start for a technique of treatments that revolutionizes the way we view and treat illness.

Edit: The article did not mention stem cells, but I think stem cells will inevitably be discussed in this thread as they're a very closely related topic, hence the mention.

As with most applications, it could be a lot smaller. But storage is so cheap and abundant that size is no longer really a constraint. Consequently, engineering for size is no longer a priority.

This was quite immersive. I think a little more content would've gone a long way to produce a more interesting story.

Incredible Accuracy? You mean retrospectively fitting a logistic model to something known to grow logistically? I'm not impressed, especially not by retrospective modelling.

The metric system contains the SI units. It is extremely commonly used in the scientific setting, due to its capacity for precision and clarity.

Your package-sorting and medical-record facility examples strike me as pure gold. I wasn't sold at first, but you seem like a great team leader. As another person wrote, you seem to really understand the essence of effective leadership. This sounds like a really good approach.

One question: have you ever had subordinates/employees for whom your approach didn't work?

Great stuff. Beautiful feeling to the site, though the 'Train' section could do with an explanation as to what you're meant to do on the exercises ('tactics'). I'm tempted to suggest integrating this with en.lichess.org, a similarly awesome chess-resource.

Well, so, what makes Nigel Richards the best Scrabble Player on Earth? The article does not even answer its own leading question, which is enormously disappointing (though it is otherwise interesting). There are a couple humorous quotations, and literally two or three sentences that could be interpreted as conjecture as to why Nigel Richards is the best player by such a phenomenally large margin: some loose statements about knowing relevant probabilities.

This article was a perfectly interesting read about how Richards utterly dominates Scrabble, but unfortunately plagued by a totally misleading headline: I was expecting an answer.

Why should the author try to fulfill some sort of gender-quota? The purpose of the article is clearly to collate the top 10 single-founder startups, rather than the top 5 male and top 5 female single-founder startups, etc.

Honestly, I would just write my own HTML/CSS and buy hosting on a server somewhere. This is cheap, and gives you a great deal of control, while also honing your web development skills. (And doing it yourself feels good!)

Interesting! (Though I suggest changing the somewhat misleading headline.)

I think this is a fascinating story. Doctor Zhivago is a hauntingly beautiful work --- one of my favorite books and films, certainly, and I am surprised by its importance as a political tool --- really, as a tool of propaganda! I found this story deeply interesting, and it notably answers questions and rumours that had been standing for fifty years. It's an important piece of journalism.

I now only wonder if the CIA had any similar involvement with the 1965 film...

How in the world do you justify the effort of swapping schools to get out of learning the times tables?

For what reason do you consider 'codec' an online porn word? I would think that most men would be acquainted with this word because of movie piracy.

The idea is that battery powered cars will become more prevalent and effectively cleaner as the electrical energy used to power them is drawn from more renewable sources, rather than from fossil fuels.

This doesn't detail "how" a teenage entrepreneur built a startup on BTC riches. It's not a very exciting story, either.

Here's what happened: in early 2012, he put all his money into Bitcoin. Then he cashed out when they peaked (probably around December 2013). Then he used the money to start yet another e-learning business/service.

I don't see what the point of this article is. He used money that was given to him to bet on speculate on a wildly fluctuating asset, and came out lucky. Now he's trying to invest his money sensibly. So what?

To me, the only interesting part of this article is that he pays most of his employees in Bitcoin. The rest is just fluff.

How in the world do you justify linking to a blog-post of precisely 135 words, 101 of which are quotation, the entirety of which was lifted from a recent CNN (opinion) article?

This is insulting. Hacker News is not just another place for you to post your practically-plagiarized, "content-aggregating" garbage for a couple meager cents from advertising.

(Your "12 Life Lessons from Trading" was a much better article, even though it's similar plagiarized copypasta.)

Despite the colossal popularity of yoga pants and gym memberships, that does indeed sound wrong, especially considering that "the global fitness and health club industry generates more than 75 billion U.S. dollars in revenue according to the 2013 IHRSA Global Report"[0]. Yoga related activities should be a subset of the fitness and health club industry, right?

[0] http://www.statista.com/topics/1141/health-und-fitness-clubs...

I'm getting so tired of every city claiming a Tech Boom, headlines like "[City X] is the next Silicon Valley", etc. All these articles are isomorphic ("here, check out this bunch of hip, trendy developers with an app that you haven't even heard of who live in our city"). This is insufferable. Here is a short list of cities on which I have read articles in the past 6 months claiming that they are the next Silicon Valley or something to that effect:

-NYC

-Berlin

-Ljubljana

-Chicago

-Detroit

-San Diego

-LA

-Toronto

-Dubai

-Tel Aviv

-Nairobi

...

This isn't news. Yes, believe it or not, most cities with a few hundred thousand people in them have a tech scene! (Especially the ones with a University housing a major CS department --- like Seattle!) Yes, it is 2014 --- the tech scene is mostly booming wherever you look, especially on a sufficiently long-term perspective. Really, articles of this sort are usually just self-serving advertisement for the city in question.

The truth is, of course, that the tech scene in most of these cities is not really booming in the sense of the word. Developing strongly is often a better way to put it, and the growth rate is often non-linear (probably more toward the logarithmic side of things) because founders of successful companies have a tendency to move to the Bay Area.

Yeah. I don't see why city officials don't just do a dig and follow Bob Diamond's research to settle the issue once-and-for-all. All they would have to do is drill through the wall in the tunnel. It wouldn't be a significant expenditure by any means. Surely political allegiance to the Confederacy could not be a motivation for being obtuse in this regard.

Wow. This is outstanding. Amazon is solidly developing a one-stop centralized base of entertainment. Even more enticing is that it's free with prime, and even if you don't have prime, it's worth getting prime for: a small fee for a year's access to most music/films you could want. And then you have prime, which makes it much more enticing to buy products on Amazon (due to cheaper, faster delivery). Smart.

(I am aware that Amazon's music library is currently not as large as that of its competitors. I think it is reasonable to assume that this will change in the near future.)

The more significant thing to note here is that the general trend in online businesses (obvious examples will include Google, Apple, and Facebook) is that every business is trying to create its own walled garden --- they try to provide all the services that any user could need, such that the user would not do business with any competitors, and so the user would interface with the business as much as possible. Apple did a remarkably good job at this with iTunes back in the day --- they were the first to provide access to a massive online store of entertainment and to integrate it very heavily with their products.

Amazon, however, is taking the cake in this respect. Their products are extremely well-integrated: www.amazon.com is gradually becoming a one-stop-destination for most media and for general shopping. Perhaps this is due to Amazon's perseverance: I've never seen Amazon weaken its hold on a particular share of any market.