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Why not? (Honest question.) We have states that have no personal income tax. Not surprisingly, these states are doing fine because they raise revenue other ways.

Most companies don't have 4000 employees, or need 1000 robots. Like every business, you add capacity as necessary. Diapers.com started with one mom and minivan.

Ripe bananas are yellow, but painting a green banana yellow does not ripen it. You're making a huge assumption here that the way someone's mind works is fixed and unalterable. I do…

Uh, this is actually a pretty good idea, if you could implement it. It would have to filter out background noise, and would be tough to make it work in a crowd, but it seems like a…

>>No one really wants to help you unless there is something in it for them or it fits into their larger plan. Some good points, but I've found this one to be wildly untrue. Almost …

This seems like the most important question... Since the paper is paywalled, and science reporting is terrible, can someone with access inform us just what the hell the fungus turn…

Which manufacturers rely on point and shoots to stay afloat? You're point is valid, though not exactly contrarian. The decline of point and shoots became pretty obvious when the ip…

Revenue is (estimated at) already over $4b a year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-20/facebook-revenue-wi...

Right, but if the suburbs weren't so sparse... they wouldn't be suburbs. The empty space is precisely the reason many people choose to live there.

Sure. But since income disparity has soared in the last 40 years and crime rates have plummeted, even if they have plummeted everywhere, this indicates that inequality, if it has a…

How do you explain some of the highest income disparity in the last century with the lowest crime rates, well, pretty much ever?

Most dividends are taxed at the appropriate long-term capital gains rate, for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend

In theory, you're right: courts don't make laws. In practice, courts make law every day. This is intuitively obvious (e.g. If law says you can't do A or C but says nothing about B,…

One of the most famous is US v. Carolene ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Carolene_Produ... ), but there are hundreds, maybe thousands of examples. Even when they do…

Some of our most important caselaw is contained in footnotes.

1. I didn't check your numbers, but I'll assume you're correct. However, in my experience, film does not even come close to approaching those theoretical lp/mm numbers. This test, …

He's talking about anti-aliasing filters ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing_filter ), which essentially blur the image enough to mask moire ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

While he seems well meaning, his point is a bit silly and shows a lack of understanding as to how capitalism works. >> Instead of measuring ourselves by the size of our Series A or…

Significantly higher relative to life expectancy of someone who makes it to 10 years old, but still incredibly low in the Western world. It's likely close enough to 0 that it just …

But, how long you live might affect how many children you have. Think of it this way: if you knew you had a high probability of living to 80, you might decide to have fewer offspri…

I don't think a finer thing could be said about a man. http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/a-hell-of-a-eulogy/

He has a habit of deleting almost all of the posts on his tumblr. When he started the account, he actually said he was only going to have one or two posts up at any one time. It's …