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Fortunately, it's still possible to retain anonymity online. I wonder for how long.

An elucidating quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."

It might be one of the cases where correlation doesn't imply causation. For an objective study, we would need to assign children to groups randomly. Otherwise, we can miss various …

I don't know. The Japanese are usually known for their dependence on the society and social norms. In the corporate world, they find it normal to work overtime without pay, never t…

It's Trump's hug of death this time.

Given that the race was pretty close, I wonder if we have Peter Thiel to thank for this result. Personally, I have a feeling that Trump would lose without Thiel's support.

Great resource! I hope it grows to be a huge collection indeed. Also I hope it'll manage to avoid all the potential legal problems when people (knowingly or unknowingly) start subm…

I think the lesson here is that people are tired of anything plain and boring and are eager to vote for something more unconventional.

Brexit, then this. Life on Earth is becoming unpredictable again. A bit scary, but fun. It was way too boring.

Everything about Apple these days points to the same elephant in the room: their top management are just a bunch of clueless salesmen without their leader.

This was a fun read, and I found myself agreeing with him on most of the points. I would call his attitude "confidence in his own ability to reason clearly".

For some reason, in Europe, even less people seriously consider cryonics as an option, despite the population being generally less religious. Some view it with cynicism. Others jus…

Musk strikes me as an imaginative but a very rational person who deeply thinks about stuff, so this is confusing to me. His argument that our world is most likely a simulation does…

Here's a post that tries to solve the geek vs nerd argument with Science! : https://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-versus-ne... P.S. The mandatory xkcd link: https://xk…

Other than being very interesting, this article provides one of the funniest instances of the crazy humor generated by the Cloud To Butt Plus extension ( https://chrome.google.com/…

> two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation I'm very curious who these two billionaires are and what exac…

This is probably the most profound work out of these (no sarcasm): On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html

The problem is that even if people hear it like this, P is still a more likely exact description of reality than P&Q.

> if somebody takes the trouble to point something out to you (say, that someone you've never met used to be a very politically-active left-winger), what they pointed out must be r…

> nobody can prove or disprove the existence of a higher being or a religion. You don't believe in something just because you cannot disprove it. You must have some evidence to bel…

That depends on how you define an idiot. It's true that one half of people literally has less-than-average intelligence...

Sorry, most people are indeed not idiots, but that doesn't apply to creationists. It's one thing to go to a church (there even might be purely social reasons), and it's another thi…