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Exactly, that's why runescape and world of warcraft have adopted the marxist game mechanic of automatically redistributing all resources and exp between all players at the end of e…

Whether we are looking at 1.5C vs 8C is absolutely enormous in terms of what policies we should be looking to enact. Everything in this discussion is shrouded in a cloud of uncerta…

There is a debate, it's just not on the questions you're looking at. Climate Change is by no means a 'settled' science, one of the most important questions scientists must answer i…

That's good to hear, because whether people want to admit it or not, journalists misreporting studies constantly is one of the reasons why trust has eroded.

Let me get this straight, you're saying that people should purposefully mislead the public?

Are you sure you don't support poor arguments?

> theoretically, everything could be reduced to physics Is there a thing as free will, and if so, is it explainable in terms of physics? And with consciousness (if you believe ther…

Of course not. Some people seem to think pasting tangentially related wikipedia articles contributes to discussion, but it doesn't.

Yes, this is fake news. Wired is no stranger to low quality click bait.

This article conveniently redefines the definition of blue collar work. By similar thinking, are typists, receptionists, data-entry folks all blue collar? > Coal miners are really …

I find it sad that some people don't believe 'Native People' are able to make their own decisions such as agreeing to having lithium mined on their territories. Extremely patronizi…

If it works well for what you are building.

A lot of people in finance spend their entire life doing the same work over and over. Same goes for programming. There is more to work than years of experience. Though no doubt the…

I believe that one reason why there is so much negatively in the javascript community is a combination of the fact that 1. Everyone knows Javascript (so everyone has an opinion) 2.…

Cool! What kind of performance gain does one get by computing the DOM Diffs in a web worker? My understanding is because webworkers you do not have access to the DOM, you still hav…

Communication skills are certainly important. I believe we both agree communication both at an organizational level, as well at a personal level is important. My point is that as a…

Terry Tao is a living legend

I noticed they found a correlation between living with parents and higher education, which isn't surprising, but I think they missed a big component of it, and the effect is certai…

I can't comment on the validity of Scott Adams claims on being censored, but he wrote a long post about it. His claim isn't that the posts never appear, but that is there was a sin…

This is wishful thinking at best, companies require practical thinking because reality is corporate suicide. Not everyone will have great communication skills - and as a team incre…

How about the Qataar donation of a million dollars to the CF which they never reported? > The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillar…

Is this why Clinton Foundation donations have massively fallen sense she lost the election? Are we now assuming every charity is on equal moral grounds?