The problem with choosing the number $5k is that $5k is nothing. Spending a quarter mill to save a million down the road makes sense, but you just try making the case to the business some time.

1. If it was good enough for Einstein, it's good enough for you. Spend a little time reading patents. Maybe you'll change the world

2. Congratulations to Spolsky and Atwood, because damn

I don't know what you're seeing in that graph, but I'm seeing significantly higher temperatures than normal after the melting point, which is exactly what TFA mentioned. The average temperature may be below melting, but that doesn't mean the temperature everywhere is below melting. A higher average temperature means more melt. If you look at years before and after about 1980 on that page, you see that the curve has in general been showing higher temperatures most years after the general melting point.

He's made a lot of cogent points about the course he took. Maybe you should respond to those instead of resorting to character assassination. Instructors who actually care about the classroom are the right people to judge course material. Students have too many other concerns to evaluate objectively.

To paraphrase a great man, I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Proof that it is not better: Many people have died who have nothing to do with the conflict. This continues to happen. Ethically speaking, this is worse. Ergo, it is not better. It may have a different balance of rights and wrongs. But it has wrongs that would not exist the other way, so it is not better.

"They" is the wrong word to use here. "They" would not gloat, for example. Terrorists would gloat. Citizens would be happy, except in those cases (crushingly brutal regimes a la Syria, corrupt politicians a la Egypt) where they were not. Either way, it is provably wrong to think that the solution of going in and reducing people to wet chunks is a better one than standing back and acting in more difficult, less dramatic ways.

You've just described the US approach to bioweapons.

Good luck ever entering the most productive part of the attention curve.

Based on Joel Spolsky's suggestion I bought a details adjusTable. Being a heavy guy (nearly 400 lbs), I couldn't get their side-by-side setup with a flat treadmill, so I bought a heavy duty treadmill with the intent of hacking it together with the desk. If I had my time back, I think I'd just have bought the treadmill and one of these.

Having said that, there's a lot to be said for a standing desk with good quality lift and the ability to return to sitting position. You can multipurpose the desk for a lot of different stuff. It takes some work, though.

This is so wrong it hurts.

You and I have very different definitions of non-back-breaking.

Slippery slopes tend to be less slippery when there's a wall of legal text already established to prevent the slope in question from being greased too liberally.

From TFA:

If they know what they're doing they're ok. Fedora is doing this for the rest of their users.

Where exactly do you expect those laid off to find work? Do you expect that work to be in Canada? Do you expect it to pay as well? Do you expect it to lie in their domain of expertise? Because if the answer to any of those questions is no for a significant number of people, then congratulations, your economy just got smaller, that is to say, there's a possible recession.