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No, you haven't suddenly stopped moving. If you choose the virtual particle's reference frame as the rest frame, then you are moving in its reference frame. If the particle winks o…

> Huh? if the proof holds, that's precisely what it does. That's very debatable. Haven't you ever heard the phrase, "I follow, but I don't understand"?

Actually, in a typical MTT short stacks are forced to shove all-in very aggressively, which can be construed as having to make "poor" choices--the decisions aren't actually incorre…

What about plain old Georgism/"geolibertarianism" with the proceeds from the LVT going straight to a uniform citizen's dividend? In my view, this would be a near-perfect system, ha…

Don't be ridiculous--vaccines don't cause autism.

The rest of the Internet hates /pol/ because the posters there are at once extremely right-wing and highly intelligent (albeit paranoid). According to the liberal world-view, such …

It can't very well still mean "Magic the", can it? I'll continue to pronounce it in my head as "Mount Gox" until given a reasonable alternative, TYVM.

Of course, people will also claim that this time is different if this time is, in fact, different. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence...

>[The sentence in the OP] is missing mandatory punctuation. According to the Wikipedia article, the sentence was constructed specifically to show why punctuation is necessary.

The burden of proof does not lie on him. There is a stunning lack of hard evidence that the holocaust took place as we're told it did. Whenever you ask for hard evidence, you're gi…

This, of course, has unlimited downside.

Wow, really? Not even if the bad guy has some hostage in a headlock with a gun to his head and a sniper has a clear shot?

It seems that many in the hacker community believe that the singularity is inevitable once the necessary hardware becomes available. But if the only thing holding us back is slow p…

>without speaking a lick of English These people should not try to immigrate to the US, nor should they be allowed in.

There's a simpler explanation. Women clump toward the mean on many metrics, while the distribution for men is much more spread out.

The problem is that one tenet of our legal system is that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Such a tenet is absurd given the sheer volume of existing law and the r…

That's not bullying. Bullying involves some sort of threat or intimidation, or at least the desire to hurt or humiliate. Telling someone that you think their opinion is wrong and t…

You've got it all wrong. First, it's the OP who wants to bully (browbeat) people, not me. When someone says, "Why do we tolerate [insert behavior that is neither illegal nor unethi…

No one's pointing a gun to this Mauro person's head and forcing him to interact with Linus. I doubt Linus ever took a vow to love, honor, or respect Mr. Mauro. If someone with whom…

>I‘ve written here before about the ongoing puzzle of improving the ratio of women to men in the tech sector. That's nice, but when are we going to address the real barriers faced …

But what about free ponies?

>People are stupid, so when warned, the will still act stupid. Despite this it is still the responsibility of whoever is able, to protect them, even against themselves. Is this rea…

Wait, then what's the problem?

But isn't that just as fascinating (as long as you know what it means)? I just finished my first college-level physics course a few weeks ago and I'm already fuzzy on the thermodyn…