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How does welfare possibly hold people back when they're required to look for a job on it? Someone who risks homelessness may have more incentive to find a job, but they're also goi…

Holding people accountable for their actions is important, but we're still at a point where the internet is considered by most to be inherently benign. Putting all our attention on…

Exploring the repercussions of what is happening is far more important than the character of whoever notices them.

I suppose I'm not an 'advanced musician', but I've been playing piano for 22 years and have never practiced a scale in my life. I think it's a detestable, anti-creative task and he…

Well, besides just getting a cheap place? 1. Live with other people. Hopefully you should already be doing this. Every sane single person in their 20s in New Zealand does. 2. Go fu…

That's actually an extremely fascinating experience. I only have two comments, both of which you've probably already considered: 1. Become a freelance web developer 2. If fish oil …

Isn't that merely the slippery slope fallacy? Firstly, the internet does not permanently and completely eliminate our agency, it reduces our agency due to the fallible nature of se…

This is a naive and harmful view of self-control. You can love something to pieces, yet still find yourself unable to do it, merely because the draw of the internet is too powerful…

I read about it in the newspaper for the small town my parents live in, and I have a completely non-technical friend duped into a weird Bitcoin ponzi scheme. It's getting there.

What job field are you in? I think I've been in web development too long, because this is not my experience.

It's obvious why: 1. How much does an electric guitar cost? Comparatively, how much does it cost to pirate music software on the device you already own? 2. How many people do you n…

For those making snarky comparisons to "eating food" or "waking up in the morning"... If I had a group of people, and wanted to find out the terrorist, which would be a more useful…