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Quite so. But the point is more about path dependency in media appointments.

why is a story 7 hours old with 11 points and 3 comments ranked #page 2 of hN? This is actually news, and sort of important. But the article above has 300 points.//?

The baby boomers seem have TV news gigs monopolized to the detriment of the country.

Notwithstanding your good points about it not being fool-proof, it is an important point that your email software doesn't essentially promote or enable corruption of the meta data …

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clinto... Cites obama admin source byline By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 2, 2015 24 hours before Netanyahu’s Full Speech Before Co…

this is the correct answer. potus get to enforce (or not) the laws. meaning he can let hrc skate on this if he chooses.

well there are other laws (eg violations of certain statutes that some accuse clinton of breeching) but there is no per se morality test in terms of ideas. The latter is a fundamen…

Thats not true. The reddit thread explicitly states what he wants to do is legally and ethically problematic. And it spells out why. "That is why the functionality doesn exist in e…

Couple of points -- (1) Colin powell's leaked e-mails apparently called the meetings a circus and a sideshow but also placed blame at the feet of HRC for outcome of that episode. t…

Market effeciency concepts have to do with incorporating information into a (well defined) market. Breaking the logic sequence of "well defined market", which can be done with triv…

"they're not asking for perfect proof of safety just that it doesn't cause long term effects which is done a lot with animal studies" Lets hope its just one of those shitty transla…

public policy variables are outside the market efficiency hypotheisis because. markets are therfore not efficient wrt to public policy in general. they only are efficient with reps…

Isn't this a straw man? These products are used in hostpitals everyday. Nobody doubts they are 'safe'in any meaningful sense. Otherwise they would need to be banned outright. OCD p…

Nietzsche's whole opus documents this quite well. You can google him or look him up on amazon maybe.

success is a monotonic function of amount of work nah, you're mis reading this. the issue is continuity. most people will never become successful because of hyper-competetion and t…

The point you're missing tho is that pandoras box is not a box of chocalates. You don't know what you're gonna get when you unleash a war--or a revolution. It says something about …

This is one of those papers where the title sounds vaguely legitimate, but the underlying analysis is only tangentially related to the topic. Also, consider "less attention has bee…

"the scientific consensus is that there is now more than a 5% chance that human beings could be virtually extinct in as little as 90 years from now" --Extrapolate trends much?

Affluent liberal media hating on the sports of the common folk...no irony here

That was quick National Geographic gives Fox control of media assets in $725 million deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geog...