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…track of scope. ‘Logical scope creep’ when unrecognized destroys software projects. Scope creep is fine if it just adds more linear work. “Could we add three more product types?” “Could you do another language?” “Can you make this interface prettier, less cluttered?” It may cause...

… facts like these—but have voluminous evidence of federal prosecutors routinely declining to bring charges in cases far more egregious than this one. To take just one obvious example, federal prosecutors have self- consciously refrained from involvement in the literally dozens of...

…lass schedules and phone messages from Epstein's home that showed he knew the girls were underage. Yet Mr. Krischer was more swayed by Epstein's lawyers, who attempted to impugn the girls' character by showing they had chatted on myspace.com about smoking marijuana and drinking....

…rvival skill. At a simple level it has been proven that animals with the ability to behave randomly escape being eaten more often than animals that follow a pattern. Non-computability is the ultimate behavioral randomizer since it is not an algorithm and cannot be copied. The ab...

…It felt wonderful and I had an extra $300 in pocket change to cover at least a few weeks of rent abroad. I created 40% more space in my apartment and hadn’t even grazed the surface. It wasn’t the extra physical space that I felt most. It was the extra mental space. It was as if...

…ons involve everything from high-level cognition and memory to how a cell stores information and how neurons interact. Moreover, that’s just one task among many that the brain does effortlessly. Whereas machines will no doubt do ever more amazing things, they’re unlikely to be a...

… puzzling phenomenon of French people getting away with murder vis-a-vis food and drink. Unapologetic love for... Read More » What’s the legality of living on a boat (any size) off the coast in the U.S.? Jeanne Pockel, 28 years full-time blue water sailing/cruising, 50 countri...

…ell hinted, advancing technology was a prime enabler of political repression, then Western societies should have gotten more and more restrictive of speech over the centuries, with a dramatic worsening in the second half of the 20th century continuing into the 21st. That’s not ho...

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…months before Turing, but his proof used a complex recursive method called the lambda calculus. Turing’s method was far more practical, which is why we now refer to Turing machines rather than Post machines. Later in his career, Post came up with a branch of non-computable mathem...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Jews had been subjected to “ceilings: no more than 7 to 8 percent. (When I started Yale Law School in 1959, I noticed that the university’s motto was written in Hebrew—the biblical words “Urim V’Tomim.” When I asked a friend who has graduated Yale College why Y...

…Sometimes my commenters just blow me away. TK OK ok My Top Questions About Dealing With Multiple Lovers I have a lot more theoretical exposure to polyamory than personal experience, but I've been gaining more personal experience over the last year. It's often interesting, some...

…This would make sense in terms of our biology: it is precisely around the age of 21 that our frontal lobes have matured more completely, thereby providing us with a more functional engine for self-control. Or, why not question why we have a legal age at all? Why not have a brain...

CONTRACTION IN HEALTHCARE VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY & CAPITAL MARKET DYNAMICS MORE BROADLY CREATE OPPORTUNITY IN DEVELOPMENT STAGE AND EARLY COMMERCIAL STAGE COMPANIES For the last several decades the healthcare venture capital industry has been the predominant source of early an...

…2.8 Canada 67 $210.6 $203.3 $11.1 $3.8 $4.0 -$2.2 Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence. Companies that are traded on more than one market are included in their primary market as determined by S&P Global Market Intelligence, based on stock price history, trading volume and avai...