Random links
- Google Co-Founders: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
- One of Google founders on whether Google would tackle healthcare: "Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time. Even though we do have some health projects, and we’ll be doing that to a certain extent. But I think the regulatory burden in the U.S. is so high that think it would dissuade a lot of entrepreneurs." The articles also notes their claims that data mining would probably save a non-negligible number of lives per year: "I imagine that would save 10,000 lives in the first year. Just that. That’s almost impossible to do because of HIPAA."
- Ford stays in seat for Pride ovation, brushes off homophobia charges
- Multiple papers criticizing an individual for failing to give a standing ovation is more what you'd expect from a totalitarian state. Not to imply that I'm a big fan of Rob Ford.
- Finally, Farm Tools For Her
- "As the engineers began videotaping women farmers shoveling, for example, they discovered women use tools very differently. They put shovels into the ground at an angle to take advantage of lower body strength, rather than straight down as men do. 'Women’s strength is in their lower body,' Adams explains, 'so we decided to create a shovel that capitalized on how women put shovels in the ground.'"
- Coffee makes you sleepy! Nutritionist explains the surprising truth about caffeine
- "So why is coffee bad for all-nighters? Basically, the caffeine in coffee induces diuresis. In other words, it makes you have to pee. ... every time you relieve yourself, you’re losing water. As you become more and more dehydrated, your blood thickens and moves more slowly through your veins. This means that your body is using oxygen at a slower rate, and thus it becomes sluggish."
- Cognitive Dissonance and Tech ‘Diversity’
- "If you want to equalize the races—be your concern tech companies or colleges, the two places this argument seems to pop up more than anywhere else***—you must do so at the expense of Asian Americans. Rather than saying 'Ugh, these institutions are disproportionately Asian,' the diversity set says 'Wow, these places are mostly white!'" I seem to recall when looking at the Google racial diversity stats that the percentage of whites was about equivalent to that of the US population whereas Asians were overrepresented by roughly a factor of six.