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I agree and I replied above saying I didnt really address the hidden nature of fakes. I went to ebay looking for fakes because they are cheaper and I didn't want to actually own re…

I mean I agree but what about something like clothing where the style is ephemeral and safety isn't really an issue (outside of blatant materials poisoning or whatever).

Yeah exactly. I guess I didn't address the inherent way you GET knockoff shirts/clothing off of ebay which is look for the people who are obviously selling fakes pretending to be r…

I like the Chinese counterfeits. I got a bundle of knock off Ralph Lauren polos that let me experiment with the frat boy look in college with out spending thousands on real ones. I…

Beats workin'.

Kill the "work week" concept too while we're at it. Are we seriously going to continue the fallacy that humans only work on specific religiously appointed days? Just start moving t…

Why do downvote brigades even EXIST on this website? I feel like this upvote downvote garbage is an echo chamber in the making. Just sort comments by replies or randomly, or not at…

Where did you see the messages that caused you to write this comment? I totally agree I'm just curious who is complaining.

PDFs are free and all students already know this. The only people who care are the people with a vested interest in selling pointless and useless garbage(textbooks). I didn't pay f…

Basically: the internet was never a level playingh field. It was always controlled by telecom and Big Gov. It wasn't designed to be equitable and has never been a laissez faire sys…

It's still pretty clear you don't get his ideas, let me help: "Even experts can't predict everything, so we should build failure tolerance into our systems..." That's not really NN…

If you see fraud and don't shout fraud you are a fraud.

Because books cost money to print? And take time to write? Stop burying the lead. I am still not hearing any good arguments about NNT's actual ideas, just loose ad hominem that doe…

Hey wow, what a terrible top comment. I think I count a bit of ad-hominem, some appeal to authority, a no true scotsman, but I don't see single concrete response to an of his ideas…

There never was a level playing field? Narrative fallacy. Occasionally technology produces moments where dynamic conditions allow for people to leverage large amounts of energy if …

Heuristics. Lots of them.