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malz··on Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
Another (apocryphal?) octopus story: fish from an aquarium tank disappearing every night, and staff after installing cameras found the octopus crawling out of its tank and eating them. Hence, tanks at Monterey Aquarium are lined with Astroturf which resists octopi suckers.
malz··on Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium
The two can be combined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience_quotient

malz··on It's time to dispel the myths about nuclear power
As long as we're throwing quotes around

"if emissions were to continue at a high rate over the next few decades, the ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/sea-level-rise-glo...

malz··on Asana
Many valid reviews are written by former employees, so I'm not sure how you could verify those. A subset of those are from people with an axe to grind. Look at any company that's had layoffs, for example. In general, I've found Glassdoor to be incredibly biased, either shills (in a small company, nobody's going to publicly trash their employer with the risk of being identified), or trolls (any company, once large enough, has former employees who didn't get along with their boss and choose to escalate it).
malz··on Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School
I don't see this as classic clickbait (as opposed to, say, "The shocking change at your kids' high school you absolutely must know about") so much as an attempt at cleverness, which is not uncommon for human-interest NYT stories even if it obscures the actual meaning.
malz··on I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
It is interesting that on this AMA you say both "ideas are worth so little" and "a really compelling idea is more important to us than traction or revenue." Can you elaborate?
malz··on Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
Also the $4b isn't for research, it's for regulation and testing, according to

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

malz··on SurveyMonkey to Lay Off 100 and Retool Business Product
Recently signed a deal for 210,000 square feet of office space, 4x the size of their University Ave space just a year after they moved in with a $6.6 mil/year lease.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/08/17/exclusive...

malz··on What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation
What about the other way around, have you ever passed on a candidate because their expected salary was too high?
malz··on How a Legal Journalist Got Fired for a Non-Compete
> My wife and I were about to buy a car ... eventually we had to walk away from the deal

Just curious, were you able to buy a car elsewhere without signing an arbitration agreement?

malz··on Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team
I am generally unaware of the commercials, but after watching a game I always have a strange craving for Budweiser and Viagra.
malz··on GoPro cutting 7 percent of its workforce
Person maintaining the open-jobs page is the first one laid off.
malz··on Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company
Because Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy): -98.90%
malz··on Former Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind “8 CDs for a penny”
In the US it is Book of the Month Club (surprisingly still in business).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month_Club

malz··on The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
1-800-555-1212 operators replaced by Tellme.
malz··on React vs. Angular 2
We use UI Bootstrap heavily on roadster.com and have been very happy, albeit with some customization. I hear your pain about outside contributors to OSS but am excited you're keeping up the great work.
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