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It's no problem at all. What ... is anybody going to do with 5000 twitter passwords? The typical internet user uses the same single password for all of his logins, including his ba…

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Direct payment like you're advocating is a political non-starter. It is the only non-distorting form of wefare possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income . taxpayers don't…

What netbooks come with only 512 megs? Dell Mini 9. However, Crucial has a 2GB upgrade module for it for $22 shipped.

the Heliodisplay ... does achieve the star wars effect In what way? R2D2 could project a mid-air 3D image.

For what?

Why do people call non-holographic 2D displays "holograms"?

Climate coolness is good, if one is producing a lot of heat. With nuclear energy, within a few centuries, humanity could easily be producing one million times as much heat as it pr…

What is the size of the subsidy of a 99 cent McDonald's hamburger?

If there weren't surging rents displacing people, why would there be rent control? Because politicians try to appease renters, who in turn tend to wrongly assume that "rent control…

Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. In the chapter on price controls, he argues that rent control (and price controls, in general) cause shortages where there is no scarcity of the un…

2) Evolution works by successive generations. If people live so long that they do not have a need to reproduce very often, then interesting evolutionary consequences will arise tha…

Eviction is the alternative to rent control in the cases where rent control matters - if the tenant can't afford market rates, then they get evicted. If you "can't afford" a $1,000…

unprofitable to insure It is not possible for someone to be unprofitable to insure. Why do you think it could be? If you are finding your bets unprofitable, try changing the amount…

things ... which are better for the environment, such as ... the Tesla. How is a Tesla Roadster better for the environment?

Demand is constrained completely by a venue's capacity This is an example of the "We Have No Competition" fallacy. It is a fallacy because substitutes for the demand are possible. …

Objectivism is the philosophy of writer Ayn Rand. Objectivists are followers of that philosophy. The words Objectivism and Objectivist are usually capitalized. http://en.wikipedia.…

Also, your stateside cocaine kilo prices are off by more than 10 times, even factoring in the recent price jump. Here are the latest news stories mentioning stateside prices: http:…

one kilo of cocaine ... $4,500 ... On the streets ... between $200,000 and $600,000. ... Claritin ... $215.17 Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71 Your analogy does not work, …

Most people also don't care if some currently existing species were to become extinct, unless it's a species that affects human life (food, or necessary predator). Are there any wi…

...Also a book and an April 2004 article in the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Case+Against+Perfection+M... The Case Against Perfection What's wrong with desi…

we only have large-scale climate readings for the last 100 years or so. Past that it's sparse readings, interpolations and projections. ...And these paintings: . http://en.wikipedi…

my friend, who just graduated with a PhD in astrophysics from Princeton, and is now a postdoc at Berkeley. She http://www.google.com/search?q=princeton+affirmative+action+... http:…

women, who have their professional involvement with math decrease dramatically as they enter the working world and need to support themselves. There's a strong, though not certain …