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Maybe the solution would be to not elect these people directly and instead have the parliament/city council elect these? That way a coalition can form organically. It's working qui…

That shouldn't be a insurmountable issue though. When I buy a house all the carpets come out and get replaced with wood floors and everything gets repainted. Otherwise it's just gr…

I just started learning R and am still in the phase of learning a new language where I feel insecure that I picked the tight language to learn. Can anyone say anything about how R …

Helping poor people is extremely hard. I am pretty confident that going to Mars is solvable by just throwing enough money at it. Solving poverty for more than a very breve period i…

The same thing happened to me in China when I tried to speak Mandarin. Fortunately, however, there were many people who couldn't switch to English because they didn't speak it.

Also brings up the question why they are so big and not competing? Maybe the deal should be rejected and investigated why they aren't competing for customers. They should be at eac…

I can't stand it anymore! Why are we prosecuting these people instead of Comcast who is on a course to destroy our infrastructure? Of course I know the answer. I just can't deal wi…

Can we get a god damn amendment to the constitution that enforced net neutrality and prohibits ISPs from doing anything but being ISPs, already?! The net is part of the infrastruct…

To me the solution is clear: tear down the shitty Victorians and build skyscrapers instead. It made me terribly upset to see that the new buildings in Mission Bay are only 5-6 stor…

Well, I understand why the Russian government is doing this. I don't have much confidence in the Ruble and am pretty sure I am not the only one. So BTC might be a viable alternativ…

Interesting how many buildings were clearly hit by bombs, burned out and still didn't collapse into their own footprint as tall buildings are known to do.

I wish we could amend the constitution that they are not allowed to do anything at all but sell bits to consumers. No selling of content, access to consumers, devices or ice cream …

Yes! There are so many amazing IPs in the gaming space that are just sitting there or get mutilated by the holder.

I actually like the idea of franchises becoming public domain. In many cases it seems that the holder either doesn't care about the IP (Sega properties like Skies of Arcadia, Lands…

Regardless who is in the right here, I don't understand why all the protesters keep going to that square where all the cops are. One of those Molotov cocktails they keep throwing c…

Thank you for calling out actual people! That seems to happen less and less. You always only hear company names these days.

In fact institutions should never carry the blame alone. In every case may it be police officers or company employees, the actual people who did something should always be prosecut…

I actually was faced with the same problem a little while ago. I started making my own Greek yoghurt once a week at home. So I started having to throw out these big amounts of whey…

I agree. Frontier has a fiber and a DSL offering. Seeing both mixed together (I can just guess that that is what is oing on) is pretty useless.

I recently updated my PC that I only use for gaming. Since my MacBook Air that I work on is getting a little slow I thought it would be time to give Ubuntu another shot on my PC. W…

As someone who uses Rubymind all day I have to agree with the speed issues. However, there are some optimizations that can easily be made to make it less painful. Removing big file…

I live in the US since five years and I never understood that zoning obsession. Can anyone explain why that's so different than it is in Europe for example? I really don't understa…

It's not only the use of antibiotics for livestock. In Russian prisons for example TB is a big problem, but there isn't enough money to give every patient the full antibiotic treat…

I don't think it's ironic at all. Big corporations spend more on lobbying and only want a free marked where it helps them. Big corporations are the biggest threat to a functioning …

It's expensive because the journals are leaches sucking money and IP out of the system. The research was funded by the people, so why should the journals get the rights? The same i…