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If you want to define the debate in that way then sure, memory plus considered analytical skills is better than memory without analytical skills, but I don't think anyone was quest…

And you still need to have memorised things like what America is or who Hitler was. Maybe you knew those things already before you started the class, which is nice, but no doubt th…

One maths class we were only warned that we had to use Euclidean paper. I did great in exams with cheat sheets, but poorly in the few truly "open book" exams, because I didn't know…

Why should they?

I doubt it. Look at pearls or diamonds. The sort of people who will pay extra for brand new ivory aren't going to bought off with fake ivory.

>I stated that if one has less money than someone else, they are much more likely to have to deal with things like being assaulted or killed or going without enough to eat etc. So …

I bet if I had a treadmill in my shower I'd have twice as many good ideas.

It's sad that so much of the internet consists of people trying to tell others what to do with their own time and money. Go be generous with your own money, dude, and quit trying t…

Thanks for saving me the trouble of reading it. I'd also suggest that one of the reasons people perceive the study of human behaviour as unscientific is that it so frequently is . …

This gives me another idea: how about we fit criminals with body cameras?

Don't be mad that some other people's brains are bent on stuff of no particular benefit to you. Their brains, their choice. Just be glad that some people's brains are bent on stuff…

"Sexiest job in tech" is a bit like "tallest midget".

In the form of time travel being talked about, the answers are: a) Yes, you disappear from the time you were in. b) Yes, you're in two places at once for the duration between your …

Actually the only vaguely plausible-ish (though by no means convincing) designs I've heard of for physically realisable time machines work like this. You do some horrendous things …

The touchiness of certain varieties of nerds with bizarre hobbies occasionally just makes them look worse. If you have a weird hobby, people are going to make fun of it. Heck, if y…

Before people get too worked up about this they should consider it from the other point of view. If you're going to get strict about getting paid for every hour you work, you'd bet…

Untrained thieves can also shoplift, which is a far easier and less risky way for thieves to steal goods.

Yeah, I know how they feel. I worked in the US for several years and something like a tenth of my salary was stolen by something called "Social Security". Do I ever see any of that…

Sure. Bread. It's so convenient and easy, and it shows up in 90% of the things that you might be able to get for breakfast and lunch at the average food joint.

100 calories of nuts or broccoli costs a whole lot more than 100 calories of bread or rice, and this is reflective of the greater agricultural demands of pretty much everything els…

Pretty much. You could probably come up with a diet that says you're not allowed to eat anything starting with a letter in the first half of the alphabet, and anyone who stuck to i…

I'm using Firefox 3.5, and a helluva lot of stuff doesn't work properly any more. For instance, I notice that reddit broke a few weeks ago and I can no longer vote or comment. Why?…

People love writing articles about how everything that happens in other countries is inevitably the west's fault. Just go up the causal chain far enough 'til you find a westerner d…

Sure, it's possible, but good luck getting funding. Doing research for profit is very tricky, which is why it almost inevitably winds up being done at a loss. The world is full of …

Or how about remote Aboriginal communities in Australia? If you want to see what giving people just enough money to live on looks like, check out our remote Aboriginal communities …