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Yup still waiting for my Lehman Brother's shares to go to the moon in value, any day now.

I wonder if there's anything better than some good old fashioned war and murder to bring humans together to solve hard problems in a coordinated fashion, the Manhattan project spri…

The amount of responsibility laundering that's happening is staggering. Is it the fault of the doctors for prescribing strong painkillers or the responsibility of lobbyists for kee…

which growth hacking strategy is this?

Why would they keep it secret? To stop others from gaming the system or because the system can't be gamed since its biased from the start?

Assuming he could speed read math, was a genius because he could speed read math or could he speed read math because he was a genius

Trying to speed read mathematics at least seems like a pretty bad idea. Maybe it works better for shallow self help books?

I do not mind your opinion or way of life, but if I consider other things to be relevant, why can't I use my time to improve in them? Just as you do with the things you consider re…

So in your opinion all efforts that result in the optimization or improvement of something decided as relevant by yourself are worthwhile?

Is obsessing over things related to real life like social ties, money, career, or anything else that will surely pass after you die a disorder? If it isn't then why not?

I wonder if the reason for this is mainly due to how much leeway you have as long as you use your technology for the benefit of the ruling party. Isn't it much easier to work on th…

What conclusions can be drawn from this? If any?

I wonder how will these new green energy sources affect the petrodollar once electric means of transportation start becoming commonplace. Will it have a big impact?

I wonder how much the "recharge while alone" feeling is due to the fact that introverts feel a need to put a front and think their every move during social situations thus making t…

What's the point of having an intelligence that cannot interact with the outside world though?

How can you be sure that there are no ways to invalidate your countermeasures regarding AGI if you aren't as intelligent as one? Comments like these make me think about a bunch of …

Will it jump into my bed and sleep on top of me though

How do you decide that your new view is valid and is not based on your need to lessen the fear of death. I have problems with this with every new thing I try to use to make death m…

I wonder if fast food is to blame for hormone imbalances in men as well, especially the problem of lower testosterone for westerners. Maybe not directly but due to the obesity exce…

I dread the day when Microsoft will start forcing me to pay a subscription for my OneNote data. Maybe moving to .txt files and using grep for search would be better in the long run…

Universal healthcare is not a silver bullet, in certain Eastern European Countries we pay a large amount of our salary in taxes so that we have universal healthcare and yet you sti…

I always ask them to give me their phone for a few minutes so I can check their messaging history, invariably they refuse. Just ask them why.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, boredom is incredibly important if you want to synthesize data. We're constantly absorbing huge quantities of news and information all day but …

It's easy to be in favor of not cutting down rainforests when you're sipping Brazilian coffee at your cushy software development job, it's much harder when you're the one planting …