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As I understand it, the US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws. For example the US Criminal code sets penalties for "assau…

The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace. "Instead, the new incentive …

You are actually correct. The speed of light you always hear about is the speed of EM radiation in a perfect vacuum. In a medium such as the atmosphere, the pulse doesn't travel as…

Because we're too expensive to waste on something another employee could do. The bitter irony is we're so expensive largely because being siloed leads to wasted effort and rework.

But while spirits became a larger share of alcohol consumed, "per capita annual consumption [immediately after the repeal of prohibition] stood at 1.2 US gallons (4.5 liters), less…

That table is expressly from the point of view of an English speaker; I'm sure it would look very different if written for Arabic speakers. Since it's largely a function of similar…

While I agree jumping to the conclusion that they're unreliable and flaky is ridiculous, being "polite" like that does no one any favors. Just be honest and explain you've been cau…

> Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Anyone that's read even the intro section of the Fermi paradox Wikipedia page already has: "There have been many attempts to explain the F…

I'm sure you're extremely smart and dedicated -- I've only dreamed of putting in that much work -- but have you considered your mindset might be holding you back? Would you hire so…

> Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting? Except he doesn't acknowledge ignorance, he plows ahead and puts the entire cont…

Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but "zombi…

> the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others Isn't this just a return to form? This sounds li…

ANNs aren't supposed to model biological neurons, they're more inspired by them. We actually know a great deal about how real neurons work, although the emergent effects keep us fr…

I'm not impressed with either side in this argument. Jarrett Walker is confusing capacity with crowding. It's ridiculous that he can't admit having someone's underarm shoved into y…

Dumb question: Why are the vendors bothering to send anything?

> how would a government pay to secure their blockchain? What do you mean? Aren't they inherently tamperproof? > how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin? A few peop…

All you have to do is arrest people converting rebel cryptocurrencies into the one you can use at the grocery store. Since every transfer of legitimate money is now in the blockcha…

Firefox has had syncing built in for a while: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/ Haven't tried it on iOS yet, but it worked great on my Android.

UBI has an incredibly simple solution (that you already quoted): The programmer gets paid way way more than the basic income, because she also has a real job (vs a government subsi…

Mine didn't have HR monitoring, but I found the movement (aka actigraphy) to be pretty much useless. Fitbit was counting all the time I was laying still trying to fall asleep as "d…

> Every minimum wage increase is different! Sure, but > You can't extrapolate this stuff. Why not? I'm not saying it's like physics where we can make nearly exact models, but can't…

> I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws Understatement of the century. Would you tell someone working at CERN "I don't pretend Newton'…

Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies. I'm s…

Disappointed this article didn't talk about maintenance. I get the feeling most people don't take care of their cars (oil changes, tire rotations, etc) as often as they should -- I…

Natural != good for humans. We evolved and are well suited for the current ecosystem. Whether you view human-caused mass extinction as natural or not, it probably won't be great fo…