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> For example, imagine that a college wants to focus less on book smarts and more on wisdom and practical intelligence.

Why?

I despise this attitude that people go to the doctor to figure out what is making them sick. Most of time, when people visit general practice doctors, they already know what's wrong with them. But we have to wait hours or days for an appointment, drive through traffic, sit in a waiting room for hours, and pay a bunch of money so that some jerk can spend five minutes typing our symptoms into his laptop.

I get it: they're gatekeepers to prevent people from abusing or misusing medicines. But wouldn't it be better to allow people access to medicine based on objective measurements taken over a long period of time rather than making people interview for it?

When I'm sitting in a waiting room, I'm thinking about what I need to say and do to convince the doctor that I'm sick. If I'm polite and smile is he going to believe me when I tell him I'm in pain? If I don't have a fever is he going to believe I had one two hours ago? I know that he gets paid whether he treats me or not and that he knows every treatment is a potential lawsuit if he makes a mistake. He has every incentive to play it safe and find some reason to avoid treating me.

The other day, I read an article about a woman in Houston. Emergency room doctors avoided treating her for a stroke because her boyfriend mentioned that she has occasionally smoked marijuana. Classifying her as a drug user allowed them to just give her some Zoloft, push her out the door, and collect the check. She'll never be the same again. And this happened in one of the best hospitals in one of the best medical centers in the world. The problem is systemic.

Developing for iOS is less expensive.

The name makes me think of pancakes.

I wouldn't try to buy anything with a credit card while using Tor. Many online businesses, especially ones with high fraud risk like hosting companies, will reject your payment if you're using a proxy. The company I used to work for would suspend your account until you sent in a picture of a government issued photo ID. If you didn't within 48 hours, they would close the account and you'd have to wait five business days for the refund.

Bitcoin should be fine though.

"MythBusters" is an unscientific television show run by stunt men. Imagine someone holding a candle underneath a gas tank for five seconds, not exploding, and concluding with cheesy sound effects that the flammability of gasoline is a "Myth". That's "MythBusters".

In an age where everyone carries a computer in their pocket, the metric system's only advantage (that it makes converting units easier) is irrelevant.

Great list! Thanks!

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who's motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

This is not up to date.

This website must not have an editor. When I think back to 2005 and 2006, I don't remember the writer being in high school figuring out what to study in college. He should have picked writing.

I don't think they're "doing pretty much everything right" but, then again, I'm not getting paid to say so.

What about Bluetooth?

I bet someone in marketing at Canonical shit their pants watching the WWDC yesterday.

My wife bookmarks like a dozen tumblr pages, Reddit posts, fanfic stories, random websites a day on her iPhone and then reads them in bed on her iPad at the end of the day. She's not real tech savvy so I've got her using Chrome which syncs them up to all of our devices: 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, a PC that boots osx and windows, and a Nook. She can pick up any device and her bookmarks are there. It would be difficult to get her to give up that functionality or have to switch browsers depending on what site she's on. Even the bookmarklet that switches you to 1Password isn't intuitive. I wish 1Password would manage bookmarks and sync them between devices like Chrome does.