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Re:Google Paid This Man $100 Million on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:05PM (#5505936)
Serious question: does the sweetened language, how you couch the situation really make a difference to decision makers?
Re:CB Insights Sells List of Dying Tech Startups for $4,895 on Thursday April 04, 2013 @05:21AM (#5491702)
> (in a lot of cases, you don't want people to know you just raised $1.5mm a year or two after your initial seed money).

Why? What kinds of signals does that send?

Re:The Street Kids of San Francisco on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:57PM (#5224161)
Why use vials? Unpredictable dosage, charged by weight if arrested... (of course, I'm not sure how much SFPD cares about hippie drugs)

Not to mention the guys selling it for $20/sheet every 4/20 on Hippie Hill -- there's your year's supply right there.

Re:The Street Kids of San Francisco on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:40PM (#5223380)
and that is because there is no profit in LSD (I suppose related to it not being addictive?)

In SF, $50 will get you an eighth of pot, whereas LSD is like $5/hit (so a twenty is enough to meet God)

Re:My IQ on Sunday November 04, 2012 @09:27PM (#4741985)
> if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists.

I'm sure this has already been explored somewhere, but I've always wondered what it says about us as humans that we consider our lives in isolation to be meaningless, but put a bunch of meaningless people together into a society, and impacting them becomes very meaningful. What's going on here, synergy?

Re:Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders on Friday October 26, 2012 @01:35AM (#4700989)
Can someone put those numbers in context? Are they large or small compared to what you'd expect/other elites?
Re:A science committee that doesn’t get science on Monday October 15, 2012 @12:23PM (#4655746)
We all know it's an awful situation. But what do you do about it?
Re:More women needed in technology on Friday October 12, 2012 @07:00AM (#4644499)
To play devil's advocate:

We need more women in trash collection. It is a national problem. The disparity between genders in the field is huge, has been going on for years, and relies on outdated, presumptuous, and sexist stereotypes that women do not like to be smelly and dirty. And the discrimination goes all the way up to the top: every CEO of a trash collection company you meet is male. We need to reach every girl and indoctrinate them to like trash as early as we can so that more of them will go on to collect it.

What I mean is: Sure, we really like computer science and allied fields. But there are other ways to live, and it seems really arrogant (and speaking of stereotypes, American ;) to unilaterally decide that our way is the best way and roll in and try and "fix" the problem. Anecdote, but the people who do well in CS are intrinsically into it.

Re:New approach to AI to improve many Google products on Saturday October 06, 2012 @03:18AM (#4620010)
Are 80s-style neural networks better at anything, or is the new stuff going to always be better?