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All the materials to build a firearm can be obtained from most large hardware stores.

Luckily, most people that read accounting reports know the difference between revenue and profit.

Even if there were no workers comp laws, there would still be workers comp. Why? Because employees demand it and will work for a lower nominal wage in order to get it. Even 17th ce…

You think you understand the conflict because...you watched a documentary on it? This is an incredibly complex situation. If you think you understand it without even reading the st…

Yeah, but he's an...intellectual.

There is a fancy name for those "empty spaces" that aren't controlled via legislation...liberties.

Being a "genius" is not the same as a "programming prodigy". In order to be a "programming prodigy" you have to "program" something. The above comment was asking for evidence that …

"Who is John Galt?" is expression of helplessness and despair in 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. A very popular (in the US) book that is somewhat controversial, mainly because a numb…

I think you mean John Gatto rather than John Galt, but it was a somewhat fitting mistake.

Is this a joke? Last time I checked, professional athletes make huge amounts of cash.

Really, you're not going to wait a few weeks and see if Google fixes things?

Because the law was written by lawyers?

Are you bothered when professional sports leagues are racially homogeneous? Would you prefer that they practice affirmative action?

"Regulation" causes investment strategies to be more homogeneous, which often means one large bubble instead of lots of small ones. It is far from obvious that this is a better sit…

Good risk management requires discrimination. And no, there isn't anything morally wrong with "discrimination".

The assumption that gay women have the same risk profile as gay men seems very weak. Almost any group of women will, on average, engage in less risky behavior than an analogous gro…

911 Operator here, most cities won't follow up a 911 hangup call from a cellphone unless there is reason to think there is an emergency. In large cities, you get hundreds of accide…

The Teaching Company philosophy lectures were significantly better than what I got at a state university, but were a very small fraction of the price.

Politicians that "have some balls" stop getting elected to public office. Your comment is simply a less precise restatement of the Median Voter Theorem, which is very well known to…

I think by "education" you mean "schooling". The conflation of these two concepts causes all kinds of mischief.

If it was indeed made by GlaxoSmithKline, then this is a good example of "big pharma" greed. Only, in this case, "big pharma" greed might end up saving millions of lives.

I played Deus Ex when I was in high school and was more impressed by its storyline than anything I read in English lit.

Time is a constraint and mental effort is a resource of our physical environment.

"There's no a priori answer: democracy is how we decide." Yes, but simply because the majority votes to take a certain action does not make that action utility-maximizing (the lose…