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He does shovel well. Very well.
posted to MetaFilter by tocts at 5:26 AM on April 29, 2015

He has my vote.

And my axe!
posted to MetaFilter by charred husk at 8:04 PM on April 28, 2015

I always assumed Anil Dash was actually famous and that I just consumed the wrong media to know why. Like how you turn 30 and suddenly half the people on the cover of People are of totally mysterious origin.
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 8:45 PM on April 25, 2015

I really enjoyed reading this, as someone who checks his Twitter analytics quite a bit more than I'd care to admit. Something that struck me as particularly interesting is that he posted the stats for his account, and he has 73 times more followers than I do, but only 5 times more retweets and favorites in the most recent month. This is not to suggest that I'm somehow "better" at Twitter, but that there's probably a pretty dramatic diminishing returns effect to more followers, and that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 6:32 PM on April 25, 2015

this world can only be cleansed with fire
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 5:12 PM on April 22, 2015

a good dog will always wait for you
heart-breaking but manditory
posted to MetaFilter by oneswellfoop at 7:08 PM on April 21, 2015

Given how right-wing domestic terrorism intensified under Clinton, virtually vanished under Bush, and came roaring back under Obama, as far as I can tell, American right-wing domestic terrorism is what happens when Republicans don't get to have the White House.
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 2:28 AM on April 20, 2015

Once you have rules, you have a game.

Once you have a game, people play to win.

Thus beings the arms race between the players and the game. (cue Taylor Swift)
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 9:27 AM on April 20, 2015

They do SO MANY tests now that my kindergartener has already figured out it's over faster if he just answers at random. He's also figured out on the "adaptive" ones that give you harder questions whenever you get one right, that the correct way to end the test is to answer two questions in a row wrong.

He was scoring above the 98th %ile at the beginning of the year; now he's scoring around the 60th and refuses to comply with any directives to take the test... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 1:38 PM on April 19, 2015

One day back in 1997...I was driving in Atlanta, and this song came on the radio (on the local "alternative" station, 99X)...and then it played again. And again. And again. Seven time in a row. The DJ, who was called Sean Demery, I think, came on sounding...broken up and crying, and had apparently locked himself in the studio. Then someone else came on, with no explanation. It was...very weird.
posted to MetaFilter by Pseudonymous Cognomen at 6:37 PM on April 18, 2015

MeFites can always find something to complain about.

I have a mental benchmark of 8 +/- 2 posts before someone shits on the kitten that just learned to surf because it's not curing world hunger or whatever.
posted to MetaFilter by Sebmojo at 9:26 PM on April 13, 2015

Surely the sanctity of corporate IP trumps one unremarkable human life?
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 2:33 AM on April 11, 2015

With no offense to anyone in this thread intended and without a shred of external credibility on issues such as this to my name, I'd like to offer a speculation: this is a slow burn.

It's a device that has only adopted the form of a watch; something familiar to us. But it has the potential to do all sorts of next-level-shit that's utterly unfamiliar to us, and I think Apple sees the commercial and technological future for phones and tablets as limited to, what's the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by digitalprimate at 2:15 AM on April 9, 2015

I'm gonna order a Takara Kronoform off eBay and if I see somebody wearing one of these Apple Watches I'm gonna be like that's cool that your watch has a personalized vibration for your dentist appointments but DOES IT TURN INTO A FUCKIN ROBOT and just blow their minds
posted to MetaFilter by prize bull octorok at 4:44 PM on April 8, 2015

The level of alert fatigue some EMRs induce is really hard to overstate in the context of a high workload. I click through dozens to hundreds of pop-up warnings in a day, on the high side when in the ICU. I would guestimate the yield of those warnings at less than 1%. "Warning! You have already prescribed a narcotic; this second narcotic may be a duplicate!" "Warning! This patient had itching to morphine; fentanyl may cross-react!" "Warning! This patient had nausea to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by a robot made out of meat at 8:19 AM on April 5, 2015

zippy: But that hospital's never going to reduce each nurse, doctor, tech, and pharmacist's load by 10%, because not only would that cost money, but also just by costing money that would lead to patient harm, because there would be fewer patients treated, or less money to spend on other areas.

This is a good point - you have to balance this (horrible) incident against the (presumably real) benefits that the automation brings in terms of number of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by memebake at 9:20 AM on April 3, 2015

Gah, the padding that makes this a five parter with cliffhangers.

The problem is: the ordering nurse, the pharmacist, the software, the robot, and the tech.

Or it's the system. Here we have every human in the sequence operating under load, multitasking like a mofo, and in the end, stupid shit happens because every piece of this exquisite machine has been optimized for efficiency rather than safety, and every human has little to no time to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by zippy at 8:43 AM on April 3, 2015

Also, I love the phrase "airplanes thrive". That is just precious.
posted to MetaFilter by Sophie1 at 8:05 AM on April 7, 2015

My old hypothesis was that "no, yes"/"no, totally" conveys "I agree that your conversational turn was valid and I disagree with the fear, which I sense you evinced, of breaking a Gricean maxim; furthermore, I also agree with the content of your last conversational turn". This may in fact be the case with "yeah, no."
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 1:21 PM on April 7, 2015

I had great fun whizzing around Soho chomping strange little pills! And now to go and look at this Google Maps game.
posted to MetaFilter by sobarel at 5:11 PM on March 31, 2015

HOLY SHIT

This is literally insane. The re/code article reads like an excerpt from Egger's The Circle except that was a dystopian work of fiction.

Jorgenson explained that he was in charge of categorizing collisions and figuring out interesting ways to measure them. He said he had chosen a Defcon military-ranking system for socializing. A Level 2, for example: If two people stop within an eight-foot radius for 15... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 2:13 PM on March 30, 2015

The devil's Management's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

- Charles Baudelaire
posted to MetaFilter by benito.strauss at 2:07 PM on March 30, 2015

Note the Insight Labs analysis has detail on why they think the Javascript was injected added by the Great Firewall. The Javascript in question is Baidu's web tracker, similar to Google Analytics' tracker. Users inside China saw nothing unusual. Users outside China got JavaScript code to attack GitHub. One way this could happen is if the attack code were being added at the routers that pass traffic between China and the rest of the world. (Although this addition would be for outgoing traffic;... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 10:24 AM on March 29, 2015

the best criticism I found was that it's some kind of Men's Rights wet dream

I actually found that movie one of the more feminist things i'd watched lately - it's weird how people see different narratives in it. If memory serves, the only man she kills is pretty rapey and controlling in the first place, and honestly, even after seeing the Big Twist occur, I kind of maintained my belief that Nick deserved what he fucking got. There's this part in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 1:01 PM on March 27, 2015

Indeed.

You didn't have to be some kind of genius to predict this; in fact, I find the whole "oooohhh, the internet has helped polarize society into entitled Silicon Valley assholes and part-time delivery workers, who could have predicted it" thing to be pretty disingenuous. Lots of people did predict it; it was obvious, has been obvious to anyone who has a worker-centered or working class outlook on the world.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 1:23 PM on March 27, 2015

My BA advisor was a full professor at a prestigious college who'd ever, in his entire career, published one book- his dissertation- and one, count it, ONE, book review. That was his entire history of publication. At a reunion I had a drink with another full professor, a pillar of the institution, who in his academic career had ever published exactly nothing. No book, not one research article, not even one book review, nada, nothing. He was hired to teach undergrads and that was that.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ethnomethodologist at 9:13 AM on March 28, 2015

Yes, I agree that asking authors to pay for expedited review is wrong. But given how many hours I spend every year on peer reviews, and the profits that Elsevier, Wiley, and Nature Press are making off of largely unpaid labor and government funded research, the idea of getting paid something for doing a review is appealing. It's sort of amazing to me how much time and money we as academics put into journal articles, knowing that the publisher makes money while we get only "prestige".... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hydropsyche at 3:49 AM on March 28, 2015

It's the mystery of the unknown. Once you've got the fever, you will crawl through the gates of hell to see what's on the other side. It's paid off in spades a few times- there's nothing quite like the feeling of breaking through into a new room or passage that no human on Earth has ever seen before.

The worst is when you crawl until it just gets too tight & you have to back out. I've had a couple dicey moments in downward crawls where I had a gravity assist on the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Devils Rancher at 6:50 AM on March 28, 2015

This seems like it should be the start of the plot for the next Hangover movie.
posted to MetaFilter by RolandOfEld at 10:47 AM on March 26, 2015

I think it's quite upsetting that someone so highly respected is probably suffering from a mental break. That's the assessment of some who have known him for a long time. I also think it's quite interesting to note that it's impossible, at least on a casual level, to distinguish mental illness from the current Republican agenda.
posted to MetaFilter by jimmythefish at 10:27 PM on March 25, 2015

This is what I think of when I think of Ben Carson.
posted to MetaFilter by 4ster at 7:51 PM on March 25, 2015

If memory serves me correctly, articles like this (not to mention various documentary films were a staple of growing up during the Cold War.

Yup - you wanna know why Gen-X seemed so moody and emo?

It's because shit like THIS was part of the background radiation of OUR CHILDHOODS.
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 7:55 AM on March 25, 2015

Well, the article itself does not recommend the crap sandwich. It gives a really good and clear example of what works: She went from telling kids "don't drop your elbow" to "keep your elbow up" and saw a 180 degree turnaround in both attitude and performance.

The human mind doesn't do well with "not" statements.

I like the general rubric that suggests that a good example is the best way to teach. Giving people a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Michele in California at 11:21 AM on March 23, 2015

Phredward: "Managing isn't about telling your reports to toughen up and accept criticism."

Has anyone done any research on not calling your people "reports"? Because that term (as well as other dehumanizing ones) gnaws at my very core.
posted to MetaFilter by Joakim Ziegler at 11:15 AM on March 23, 2015

Also, it begins, "Dear Gary". My name is not Gary.

He doesn't think your name is Gary; he's hoping your name is, in fact, Indiana, so that he'll say Gary and you'll say Indiana and you'll go back and forth like that a few times, "Gary", "Indiana", "Gary?", "Indiana!" and he can finish off with a smug "...is the place where I am from!" and some jazz hands and you'll be bowled... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:33 PM on March 23, 2015

I'm semi-obsessed with type (although probably more obsessed than I'd care to admit given I got FPPed for writing about once). Indeed, myself and several other semi-obsessives (all of whom work in the publishing industry in some way) actually have an ongoing competition. The objective is to keep an eye out for the most unexpected or inappropriate instance of Comic Sans. Whenever one of us sees it used in a way we feel seta a new low, we grab some evidence (either photo or copy of whatever... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by garius at 3:42 AM on November 16, 2009

And then the millenials will come along and artisinal embalming will be a thing. Because "authentic".

I'm Gen X. Just sew me up in a burlap sack, or whatever. It's all bullshit anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by thelonius at 6:02 AM on March 23, 2015

Mysterious Photocopied Cats Popping Up Around University Of Wisconsin-Madison's Steenbock Library
posted to MetaFilter by waitingtoderail at 8:24 AM on March 21, 2015

I'm super anti-gun. Other than Team Fortess, but still.

What the anti-gun lobby, and this video, doesn't get is that they don't see gun culture as a culture. You can't beat a culture in the short-term, just like you can't outlaw a religion and expect its adherents to go, "Yep, we're done here with the Jesus thing. Team Xenu!"

So, when you say, "This gun killed a kid," the reaction you're going to get is a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Cool Papa Bell at 12:53 PM on March 21, 2015

From the comments to TFA:

Youtube comments
Fastest way to go from the golden afterglow of watching something inspirational to questioning your commitment to the social contract.

A sentiment oft felt, but ne'er so well expressed.
posted to MetaFilter by KathrynT at 8:46 AM on March 18, 2015

"Every beer is pretty good" is right up there with Warren Zevon's admonition to enjoy every sandwich.

This is the THING about the internet, which I also constantly fall prey to. It is now possible, without speaking to a single other human or leaving your home, to exhaustively research the absolute 100% best of the best of everything. So we can't just like beer now, we have to like The Fanciest Beer, and we have to buy raw unwashable jeans,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 7:50 AM on March 18, 2015

79. What is felt?

For me, a general sense of dread.
posted to MetaFilter by Ratio at 3:56 PM on March 16, 2015

She's going for the whole Clickhole absurdist thing. Which means everything has come full circle, and the internet can finally be shut down.
posted to MetaFilter by teponaztli at 1:05 AM on March 16, 2015

I just got back from a trip to Disney World with a group of 7. Having the Magicbands and Fastpass+ reservations plus a lot of research meant that we only had one wait that was longer than 20 minutes for a ride despite Spring Break and good weather crowds. We didn't have to worry about somebody losing a paper ticket (we lost four Express passes at Universal) or room key. Every one in our party got to do the things they most wanted to do. With Photopass, a Disney photographer could scan one of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dojie at 5:48 AM on March 16, 2015

If one must hate someone, I think the kind of people that would spend $17,000 on a watch that has literally no more functionality than the version that costs $400 is a worthy target.

Although you don't have to hate anybody - that's your choice. Finding someone who appears to justify and make rational the choice to hate is just an excuse for indulging in the pleasure of hatred. For some it might be people wearing a ridiculously... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier at 5:10 PM on March 15, 2015

I was just commenting on this in the Nemtsov thread.

Russia This Week: All the Strange Things Going on in Moscow

Russia Update: Is There a Slow-Motion Coup Under Way?

I bet Primakov is taking over. Either Putin will become a puppet, or he will be replaced by Primakov and Medvedev by Ivanov. All of the confusion is because Putin isn't taking it well. Actually, Primakov doesn't sound all that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Golden Eternity at 2:43 AM on March 15, 2015

That's poorly phrased, but I think the gist of what the author means is that many paleontologists in the early to mid 1900s were pretty convinced that orangutans were the great apes most closely related to humans, not chimpanzees.

A lot of people were firmly convinced that we would find human ancestors in Europe and Asia - definitely not Africa. A lot of that is due to the continuing importance of Eoanthropus dawsoni - Piltdownn man. Piltdown Man... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChuraChura at 1:59 PM on March 14, 2015

Ricky Bloomfield is a hospitalist and Director of Mobile Health Technology Strategy and Duke University. He's pretty excited about ResearchKit.

ResearchKit and the future of healthcare

ResearchKit: More Details

There is a huge amount of work being done now to create a Learning Healthcare System, a system in which clinical data is systematically brought back into the research community to provide orders of magnitude more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by alms at 8:11 PM on March 13, 2015

Have they always been this problematic?

Agent Carter tells me that secret agents have always been pretty bad, so there.
posted to MetaFilter by happyroach at 12:33 AM on March 12, 2015

1 All you really need to know about Kirk if his resume ever comes across your desk is that his main claim to fame as a graduate student was brazenly cheating to pass his final exams.
posted by saulgoodman

Hey, man, he received a commendation for original thinking.

2. I love Wrath of Khan fiercely, but it does pretty seriously underplay a major Kirk fuckup. If he'd followed Starfleet regs and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by the phlegmatic king at 10:23 AM on March 9, 2015