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> A large part of what makes the first world so productive is its culture In view of history including colonialism this statement sounds very naive indeed.

That is a consequence of failed premises in the city planning in the US.

Joyce scholarship in some sense seems like mathematics --- the construct is an invention, axioms can be whatever they are decided to be, and the only question is in how productive …

> known-to-be-flawed academic peer review system That something is flawed does not mean it is useless. You can find the fully unmoderated preprint forum at vixra.org and the result…

> From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs You're not entitled to having your PRs merged, or even having anyone look at them. PRs not of particular interest to those maint…

But the stackoverflow answer is right, and accounts for the fact that in the majority of cases the person who is asking a confused question is indeed confused. If what you are tryi…

> Don't forget that companies are made of people This is totally irrelevant, because the governance model of a a company is a limited dictatorship, and not all those people are equ…

I have used an ad blocker for the last 10+ years. I don't know how Adsense has improved my internet experience, and I suspect it has had no effect.

Evolution only optimizes for having offspring in the future. Trying to find a rational reason for some evolved behavior is not necessarily a fruitful way to think about it.

Not a surprise and not a disappointment either, when it was clear from the start that all results are within measurement error bars, so that there was neither experimental nor theo…

It was not "NASA" who indicated something, but a couple of guys working for NASA. Also, the "pilot wave theory" stuff is just idle speculation on topics of which the authors did no…

> There is no substitute for you, the person reading these words, to stop accepting plastic bags and as much similar things -- coffee cups, utensils, etc. There is: regulation by t…

> Mercurial? It's not. The basic feature set is pretty much the same, and requires similar effort to grok. Some things are much harder to do in Mercurial, and some things are just …

The problem with stackoverflow is that answering questions sucks in the long term, for most people. It's basically an user support job, and if you are not suited for that sort of j…

Another natural language programming language (in Finnish): https://github.com/fergusq/tampio It's technically somewhat amusing as it runs a morphological parser in order to deal w…

I hear (but is it true?) that for a philosopher to build a career, it is important to be thought as very smart by other philosophers --- and that this is much more so than in other…

Perhaps it is an action boosting EU-based companies? Otherwise they are at a disadvantage in competition, because US-based Googles and Facebooks game the e.g. the tax system in a w…

The source you link to has its own agenda: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/JunkScience.com

> I don't understand how governments have the authority to make private companies (journal publishers) give-away their product for free. Nobody is telling publishers what they have…

> When Nature releases an article, they put a lot of work into formatting it for publication so it looks nice. That final product does and should belong to them. Don't you think th…

Let's say that you suddely start caring once your library drops subscriptions to journals that you need.

The journal choice is still not fully voluntary. Each field has certain flagship journals, and you are going to publish in them because they have large impact on the prospects for …

Why not term limits for all occupations? 1 year white collar work, 1 year on the farm.

DDT was never banned for use in fighting malaria and other diseases. Its use declined because mosquitoes develop resistance to it, and more efficient methods became available. Of c…