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I have to assume that this list is pared down considerably. When I opened the list, I fully expected to see Roger Penrose, who believes that the human brain is a quantum computer. …

I agree with you, but I think it’s worth pointing out that the NFL is balanced because they tried to make it balanced - the salary cap, draft, revenue sharing, etc. are all outcome…

That happened to me as well! I was asked to tip on an automated coffee dispenser…

Our brains also have evolved rewards for performing life-continuing behaviors, and then evolved to rewarding proxy behaviors, instead of the actual life-continuing behavior. This i…

Through Medicare and Medicaid, the US spends more public money per capita on healthcare than any other country spends period. This is largely because Medicare/Medicaid were not all…

For the cost to develop the polio vaccine, March of Dimes could have bought enough iron lungs to save 12,000 lives. Of course, they had no idea what the actual number would be befo…

I just learned earlier this week that he produced “In The Dark of the Night” from Anastasia!

Without condoning this, I think it’s important to be very clear about what this is: it’s an automation improvement to a decades-old existing system. Most retail stores already keep…

My grandparents lived north of Salt Lake City, close enough that I’ve been there at least half a dozen times over several decades. Last time I did,I drove across a bridge with no w…

You’re dodging their question.

I apologize if I’m missing the point you’re making, but trench foot and vaccines are completely unrelated. Vaccines fundamentally impact viruses. Trench foot is not caused by a vir…

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You’re going to need to justify both of those claims. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

It reflects incredibly poorly on management, bordering on incompetence. If those 10% of employees were needed, then management obviously shouldn’t fire them just to make the stock …

That’s also true of companies that AOC wants to raise taxes on. She’s not forcing anyone to pay those taxes. Companies that don’t want to pay those taxes are free to relocate away …

“…for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called ‘The Pow…

Negative. “…the data does not by themselves establish the physical origin of the light that generated the images…”

1) because there aren’t enough teachers in-state + coming out of the lower 48 to meet demand. 2) Pay alone can’t make people happy, which is why there’s a very high alcoholism/suic…

At a general level, it is a simple fact that there are more qualified/happy candidates globally than there are just in the United States. For the second part, no, I assume that mon…

My sister was a schoolteacher in Alaska. They pay a premium, but it’s still not a life that most Americans are cut out for, including me. That means the schools have to choose betw…

Since Bari Weiss took over CBS News, there’s been a number of controversies involving corporate interference to nix or promote politically-charged stories. Most recently, at 60 min…

> The index is intended to follow the all of the largest large-cap U.S. equities, not pick and choose which ones to invest in. This particular piece is incorrect. S&P has preexisti…

> truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Given the events of the past week, this …

They aren’t. The US built monitoring infrastructure there because it’s our project, and that’s where the science needs to happen. It’s the same reason that many more countries than…

> If these rules go into effect, is it not true that individuals, state governments, and non-governmental organizations could still fund scientific research that the federal govern…

What do you mean by that?