randycupertino

The thing is, placebo is actually extremely effective... so if you believe power poses are really helping, they probably are! Same with the power of prayer, or voodoo dolls, or whatever...

"I assume this keeps popping up on Hacker News because of schadenfreude," I don't know, I think there are chronic reposting lately in all categories, just not this topic. Don't we…

This story by Moss Hills about the Oceanos shipwreck is incredible. I can't believe I've never heard about it before or that there hasn't been a big blockbuster movie made about the wr…

... "or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited" - isn't that the whole point of peer reviewed research?!

Really? That's weird, it comes through for me and I don't think I have a subcription. Did you know you can google the title and if you click the top link it works (for all paywall sites). …

One little known fact- the city will reimburse you for paint and labor up to $200 if your building gets tagged. The $200 barely covers your paint costs if it's a large tag, but it's better …

"My mom, in her late 50s, uses facebook everyday and I actually set up an account for her a few years back (opened a gmail for that, but my mom never checks her gmail, so she's entirely reli…

I thought it was interesting, I read the whole thing because I'm relaxing listening to the rain falling out my window. It's like reading a book, only a long form, well written magazine arti…

This reminds me of the fruitcake factory scammer who also stole $16 million before his underling finally noticed: http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/just-desserts/ …

I thought it was a good PR move for Uber to hire nonviolent felons as well. They were talking about that on NPR this week.

Interesting post but it's kind of lame without the actual #s.... even a broad range would be helpful. Feels like the author goes to great lengths to play coy and is dancing around telling us what…

I knew Davos was dying when some model girls I know who are big in the "party circuit" of Ibiza/Tony Robbins seminars/Superbowl/Burning Man started adding Davos as a stop on t…

Ditto. Medium to me always seems like people trying to add credibility to their livejournal posts.

I was a paramedic so generally by the time we were called things were deteriorated pretty badly which is why we saw a lot of horrific cases. Totally agree about the wealthy being very cheap about taki…

I've also worked in senior care and have seen some incredibly horrific abuse cases. One caregiver would say he was taking the elder to the park for a walk, to a cafe for lunch, to the pharmacy t…

Ack, you're right! Corrected.

Nothing smaller than your elbow.

Yeah. I was actually shocked that they were bothering to try and organize a protest against a stop sign- at an intersection where there are always accidents from people not merging correctly! - o…

What made me extremely disheartened in my neighbors was joining Nextdoor.com and seeing what the majority of my neighbors thought was "bad" for our neighborhood. They literally complained a…

The press really has it out for her lately. She can't do anything right. A few weeks ago they were calling her Marie Antoinette.

It looks awesome! I am excited to see it. Jared Leto blew me away in Dallas Buyers Club so I'm excited to see him as The Joker.

Watching bad TV.

I feel you. My brother is a restaurant manager in the middle of Kansas making 30k a year. And he is a smart guy who was a MATH MAJOR at a state school! He could come out here and get a job at a sta…