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Or bad means "bad bet" (before the fact) instead of "unsuccessful bet" (after the fact).

The Oak Bro logo is very subtle. You immediately see the leaf, but not the negative space line of busts on bottom and line of asses on top.

I mostly agree with you, but organizing a bunch of stories that mention certain keywords is innovative and useful. And there is a big problem with the way the current system works:…

A basic income guarantee is a far more important idea than free higher education or affordable housing. The argument for universal healthcare is that we're going to take care of th…

> The market capitalization is only 500 million dollars. Emphasis mine. That seems crazy high. How many million dollars would you pay for all of the existing bit coins?

> impossible to maintain expert level skills in more than one or two language + library environments And the crappier your language and libraries, the more time it takes to be an "…

Yes, I don't think I phrased it well, but I didn't intend to assume that there is a single Robot Mega Corp. > The more humans we replace by robots, the lower the cost of goods will…

You're looking at things from the viewpoint of society. There your argument makes sense -- of course "people" will continue to work. But that argument, that we'll just continue to …

I don't like this explanation at all. This fuzzy thinking works out because you knew it to work out based on your much less fuzzy understanding of the complex numbers. Similarly fu…

When I worked in retail, our boss would have us send our friends across the street to our competitor's store to really screw with their employees. The theory was that this would ma…

This isn't really something we can try, but I suspect you'd get turned down some reasonable percentage of the time (2%-10%, say) with such an offer, by people who have "all the mon…

First, let's do the experiment with a billion dollars and see if you really just offer me 50 million.

Reading the summary you've linked to, isn't the implication for this thread that certain puzzle type questions, if they do a reasonable job of measuring general intelligence, are u…

I almost wrote "uniform", but that seemed simplistic since it didn't take into account factors like age, number of children, etc. But if the majority of the wealth goes to the few …

Whether or not the term "meritocracy" is thrown around as propaganda is a separate issue from whether or not we should want to live in a meritocracy, which is what the article was …

The following are mutually exclusive: a) All children have equal opportunity. b) Parents are able to spend money on their children. I've spoken with many people who are in favor of…

This is mostly right. This is certainly not about the boycotters believing all information (or even all academic publications) should be free, as the other branch of rayiner's thre…

That sounds terrible.