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SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
The claim that “SSRIs don’t work” or “SSRIs are mostly just placebo” is most commonly associated with Irving Kirsch, a man with the awesome job title of “Associa…
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Attacked By Thugs (2004)
Warsaw has a river running down its middle, an unassuming and turpid ribbon of water with a stairstep concrete enbankment along both of its banks, where you can often find retirees fishing (only people on fixed incomes or those close to death would dare eat fish from the Vistula). In between the embankment and the…
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Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill
In June of 2010 I moved to a place in Montana with only electric heat. By myself. In the past few winters I had conducted experiments in cutting the amount of energy I needed to stay warm, with a focus on heating myself instead of heating the whole house.
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Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
Lawn care simplified. Have the best looking lawn on your block with less mowing, less watering and less money. The cheapest lawn care AND the laziest lawn care.
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No Russian
Many people in Silicon Valley inquired over the years why I was not coming back to Russia often (I visited once in two decades) or why I’m not spending much time helping Russian startups. I u…
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Beijing From Above, aka How I was police detained for flying a Quadcopter
Xoilac86 mang đến trải nghiệm xem bóng đá trực tiếp trên internet với hình ảnh rõ nét, tốc độ tải nhanh, đường truyền ổn định cùng lịch thi đấu, kết quả và tin tức bóng đá.
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Social Justice And Words, Words, Words
[Content note: hostility toward social justice, discussion of various prejudices] “Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through. First from him, now from you. Is tha…
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No, I’ll tell you the answer
Beware of advice that tries to change who you are. True wisdom guides you to a better version of yourself.
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Make Things and Show Them
We’ve often been asked to make a section of Hacker News that’s just for Show HNs, so we did. We’rereleasing it today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826], along with a new set ofShow HN guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]. In late 2008 and early 2009, users submitting their work to Hacker…
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Early Days on Street View
A friend was asking about the early Street View timeline, which prompted a trip down memory lane. It's been at least five years for most of...
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My Experience at JuliaCon
Introduction Link to heading I just got home from JuliaCon, the first conference dedicated entirely to Julia. It was a great pleasure to spend two full days listening to talks about a language that I started advocating for just a little more than two years ago. What follows is a very brief review of the talks that…
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The Curse of Smart People
A bit over 3 years ago, after working for many years at a series of startups (most of which I co-founded), I disappeared through a Certain V...
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Teenage Haskell
I’ve been inspired by the efforts of others (Chris Smith, Manuel Chakravarty) to try teaching children haskell as a first experience of programming. Haskell has a reputation of being a "…
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The Ghost in the MP3
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Reading Lamport, again
We’ve just kicked off an internal distributed-systems seminar. Our inaugral paper was Lamport’s classic “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distrib...
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How I got a medal from the Army for writing code
In 2005 my National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) in the Army was 92A, which is basically a logistics and supplies...
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Everything Is Bullshit: A Book by Priceonomics
Priceonomics wrote a book! We hope you enjoy it.
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The Entrepreneur Who Captivated Me
On January 12th, 2012 I went to Airbnb to give a talk about Storm at their tech talk series. It wa...
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A beginner's guide to funemployment
I recently stopped working for 5 months, and aside from writing a few blog posts and getting to Gold League in Starcraft, I achieved very little. It was wonderful.