How would you improve the interface? I'm not sure there's any way of handling 60 different units easily....

They calculated the mean time between switching to a new screen and then clicking on something on that screen.

Here is the data they collected. Look at it and see if you can figure out where it peaks. What are the things that strike you most about that data? The primary correlation is between skill-level and mean time, if age matters at all it is a far weaker variable.

Looking at the actual data, I would say they've found the age when people stop playing Starcraft; it's a fairly sharp drop-off. And the change in mean-switching-time is not a real effect, merely an artifact of the suddenly smaller data they have around that age. This paper is probably relevant (suggesting scientists often need to improve their statistics).

Furthermore, if you read the actual paper, you have this quote: "A second analysis of dual-task performance finds no evidence of a corresponding age-related decline." So I'm going to say there's not a story here.

Oh yeah, that's exactly what I look for in a job.

Python guru Jeff Knupp should go find a job where he can program, and not worry about ops. Simple solution.

That's a good point

This is exactly why I refuse to give them any of my money. I do it by hand, every year. Bonus I get to annoy IRS agents by making them read hand-written forms.

As long as you're getting a refund, there's no problem. If you made some mathematical mistakes, then the IRS will correct them for you. If you later realize you didn't take a deduction, then you can file a correction.

The real problem comes when you owe money, and you didn't pay it in time. That's when the IRS starts charging 1% interest per day (up to ~30% or something). Also, if you claim tax credits that you don't qualify for, you could have to pay them back.

This is why I do it by hand every year. To spite the IRS, to avoid sending cash to Intuit or some other heavy-lobbying company, and also it helps me understand taxes better.

That's cool, but the problem in SF is that there's just not enough housing. We can set price controls, but there will still be the problem of not enough housing.

I can understand that. San Francisco traffic is bad enough already, imagine if it had a million more people, with a lot of them wanting to drive.

Increasing the building height limit without improving the roads would be a gigantic mess. You can't just raise the limit without planning for how the people will get around. And people in San Francisco don't really want to make it easier to move there.

What about people who are born intolerant? (if you don't think kids are intolerant, go watch a baby day-care sometime. They can be extremely insensitive, hitting each other and laughing and stuff).

The IRS loses billions every year to fraudulent returns. All you have to do is get a pre-paid debit card, find someone's social security number and name, and have the IRS deposit the money to the pre-paid card. Since it's anonymous, catching them is hard.

Hmmmm.....do you mean science as an institution, or science as a method?

Good call

Yeap. I don't know all the problems, and I don't know all the solutions. I'm willing to wait and see how it turns out for China.