myth_buster

  spends 12 hours a day reading about different things, re-explaining them, 
  connecting them and introducing people to different ideas

Well, Randall Munroe is living in your utopia. Perhaps,

  The Utopia is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

I read that Marc Andreessen used favorites the same way to let the people who tweeted to him know that he read their tweets or check their product page etc.

The side effect of this behavior was that it sent a signal to the community that "Marc Andreessen" "Favorited" this page/product/tweet which could have surprising effect. I was at a receiving end of this and it brought a hoard of viewership/followers/favorites.

Well, that's unfortunate. I think perhaps it's a misattribution(?) as it's perhaps not representative of what the Genre has evolved to be.

  Is there anything else that isn’t taught to young students that you wish would be 
  incorporated into the material, or any other thoughts on education?

I can't comment on the US education system, but back home I think one of the most important ingredient missing from my school education was _Critical Thinking_ [0]. I happened to stumble upon this field by happenstance and was baffled why this is not integral to our education. I attributed this to the assumption that free thinking and critiquing adults is not what an authority/regime would want. Additionally most teachers/adults don't want to be bombarded by "why"s to which they don't have an answer. But then there is also the Hanlon's razor.

[0] Wiki def: intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action

Is that an extension or are you on mobile?

Edit: Thanks!

  Many highly valued companies armed with private capital 
  have stayed away from the IPO market. 

I think this might become a norm in the short term

  * as the late stage funding rounds appear inflated,
  * an FED rate hike seems imminent and
  * arguably, public market may not have the same risk/return 
    appetite as those investing in late stage rounds.

Search Google for the post's title.

I like what Steven Moffat did with the Doctor Who series, so perhaps a good team could revive the series.

Assembly of course...

What you fear and what kills you.... I think this[0] is relevant.

I believe people whose counter argument is to compare death by police officer to other causes of deaths are missing the point.

[0] http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FEAR.jpg

An app would be a further distraction and would perhaps be detriment to what you want to achieve.

  permission for location services in general

This is interesting primarily because for most part I switch-off my location services as I think it's a drain on my battery. The only time it's enabled is when I need the GPS which is quite seldom. So I would assume that it would affect the accuracy of the model if say I live quite a way off from where I work.

Also if I'm spending most of my time indoors in buildings, how much of it would affect the readings as compared to when I'm out in the open?

  Updated Date: 27-oct-2015
  Creation Date: 08-oct-2015

They be baffled by the page views they be getting! Would this be considered as "any publicity is good publicity"?

  The company also has a popular mobile app, which Mr. Kenny said 
  collected barometric pressure from its users’ phone sensors. 
  Millions of locations are turning in information 96 times a day.

Well, this is news to me.

Is the savings from direct sales the reason for companies like BMW offering sponsored visit to German factory for a buyer in the states?

I think the phrase is used in this context

  The dispute began in June when ADP, a 50-year-old payroll company,

Non-mobile link[0]. The text contrast on the mobile version is horrible.

[0] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/11/193326-inductive-progr...

The importance of lifestyle branding! A lot of the iPhone sale could be attributed to the Rose Gold 6s.

  leaving the world better than we found it.

Good Grief!

Edit: Did I hit a nerve or what!

  Like when people start running and they have all these wonderful side effects 
  — more energy, better sleep, mood improvements

I can definitely vouch for that but I would not generalize it by saying everyone will feel the same way. The changes in me are remarkably stark when I do exercise/jog as compared to when I don't at all. I would like to counter the possible argument that I go for an exercise when I'm in better mood or feeling high energy by stating that I've had the mis/fortune of trying it out during various states of my being.

I think there may be an evolutionary aspect to it as we started of as nomads and the lifestyle that we live currently is the result of the industrial revolution and hence quite recent.

  I'm not sure that we're in a "bubble" in the 1999 sense 
  that people worry about, 

I think the scale may be different but we definitely are in an artificially stimulated economy. The effects will only be seen post Fed's interest rate hike. And the way they are shying away from doing so makes me feel that the market is not ready to stomach that.

The access to cheap money has brought in a lot of players into the market who otherwise would have been sidelined. I think it's not only evident in the startup/unicorn sector but quite so in the building/construction sector as well. I see all around me skyscrapers & apartment complexes being built in an unprecedented rate and people buying half a million dollar+ houses where quarter of a million was too high (as you can see I'm not in Cal).

I don't think they would make that distinction and let it by. They wouldn't let any kind of meat be cast in bad light as it would affect them by association.

There is an excellent standup comedy routine on being the youngest child and surviving until teens. I'll link to it when I could recollect who did it.

  Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say)

This is Hitchens being cheeky as always! :)

  The report indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic 
  deaths remains unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year.

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st...

  600,000 attributed to alcohol each year.

That number is a bit misleading. Does that include the deaths say due to DUI,, liver damage, poisoning?

It ideally shouldn't as we are discussing carcinogens.

Edit: Added additional alcohol related deaths.

  a member of the Meat Advisory Panel... said "“The top priorities 
  for cancer prevention remain smoking cessation, maintenance of 
  normal body weight and avoidance of high alcohol intakes.”"

  emeritus fellow at the Institute of Food Research, also said the 
  effect was small.

  The North American Meat Institute said defining red meat as a cancer 
  hazard defied common sense.

Due to economies of McDonald's, Burger King et al, there appears to be an intense lobbying group

which would go against any attempt to bring forth discussion on this topic.

I won't be surprised if a decade or two from now we see the issue in the same light as Lead

poisoning primarily due to someone's[1] fight against the status quo.

On a related topic, there is an interesting documentary Cowspiracy [0] (available on Netflix)

which talks about the carbon footprint caused by the animal husbandry. Although it's feature

length, I think the first two acts are compelling.

[0] http://www.cowspiracy.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson

Edit: Flow.

I've been doing Coursera courses for the past few years in an on/off fashion. I'm pleasantly

surprised by the courses that are more popular in this list.

I think the pattern is that the foundational or introductory courses are popular as they have a

larger audience. But it doesn't comment on the quality of the course. An interesting data point

is the social media "Share" widget that appears on the right column [0].

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog

I don't think this is the case will _All_ courses... Most of the CS courses allows you to access resources even after the course is completed.

Also if the course you want to enroll is not scheduled for near future, you can go to the course page and view the older version of the course.

I think that makes sense as I believe in their system the identifier will be

W1X1qFI which happens to be the url/filename and is auto-generated it ignores the extension

instead of throwing a 404.

I also like this 10,000 fps video [0] credited to Tim Samaras.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/W1X1qFI.jpg