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"Beyond immoral" seems to me somewhere between excessive and totally wrongheaded. Bad advice has consequences and bad legal advice often doubly so. The law is nuanced, convoluted a…

Something like "well then why not? Shouldn't you make the little moments memorable, joyful ones?" presumably

He thinks that the majority reached the right conclusion (the result - that the defendants were entitled to the money) but not for the right reason (the particular argument that th…

Deep Space 9 has an arc where a Starfleet officer attempts to launch a coup against the (elected) President of the Federation - we do see an elected leader there, but you're right …

Yes, slower. 24x faster would be a miracle!

It's possible that you'll design a safe that the government cannot get into without destroying the contents. We say that the government can do their best to get into that safe if t…

In retrospect the fact that the cable is responsible for making headphones fall out makes so much sense, and I've even experienced it while running, but I hadn't thought of it. Tha…

I think the problem here is more nuanced. The first, cold fusion claim that they made belongs in the almost-certainly-false bucket; the many critiques of the work were decisive and…

Texting also became more common with the widespread adoption of smartphones - we'd of course see more accidents as a result, but the medium became massively more useful to a lot mo…

There most certainly is. You've pointed out some exceptions but do you really think that on the whole they're not correlated? Having more money means people can afford to dress bet…

It's not as surprising as you'd think. The basic problem is energy density and availability . Human beings don't directly photosynthesize for clear reasons. Solar power isn't avail…

Perhaps it's not their fault but it doesn't make it any better for a prospective job hunter. Perhaps competitive salaries need to be part of this push

I'm an iPhone user myself but I understand this impulse. Having safety and compatibility sorted out for you really is an important time-saver and convenience. However, when you wan…

It's possible that it's more acute for him because he's not used to it, the same way someone who's lived at high altitude for years doesn't feel out of breath. Most people, I think…

This is interesting. Could you (or someone else whose had this experience) elaborate?

To be honest I expected a bit more. If not more endorsement of Apple, some more, well, opinion . This read like a news piece with the word "persuasively" as the only bit of subject…

How so? It seemed completely fair to me - yes, he pushed the staffer a bit but would there have been a point to the interview if he hadn't? I'm not quite sure if I believe the Sand…

I'm not quite sure this gets to the heart of what OP meant. In tech, MIT is probably better than (or at least as good as) most Ivies.

A 17th century writer. More importantly, a poet. Not sure how I feel about the point of the article, but this sheds no light on it - Donne's work is pretty different from modern pr…

Not really. Think what you will of the merits of the article, but it makes specific reference in the opening sentence to the fact that "digital native has been used to refer to a m…

I could be wrong, but I understood this to be a way of getting yourself in the door. Bonds created by the "indebtedness" are I think starting points to spending time with people an…