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I didn't read this as an investment thesis. I don't think he's trying to prescribe an investment strategy.

> Doing nothing can be as equally energising as time out spent with people, and is in fact necessary in order to recharge, says Pedro Diaz, CEO of the Workplace Mental Health Insti…

Weakness of will.

> There can be 'unlimited growth' - as long as there is innovation. How's that work, bud?

> Life is a complicated symphony of events, it isn't easy to arrange a perfect solution on your own. Implicit here is the assumption that there is a problem (life itself?) to which…

One might go so far as to say that substance and sustenance of life dwells in those holes. I won't go so far, but someone (not me, of course) might.

Not exactly: Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson did not, in fact, have sex. Tom rebuffed Mayella's advances, and Bob Ewell concocted a rape as retribution for Mayella's attraction to a…

If you run an online store that doesn't validate credit cards correctly you will become an API for fraudsters to check the validity of Visa numbers.

Isn't this explicitly not a theory of consciousness?

"Calorie restriction is proven to help you live a longer life." Flatly untrue. The article linked to "in proof" is about primate studies that suggest -- perhaps even strongly sugge…

I believe the point was that selling a kid to pay for the others is a suggestion similarly (if not identically) indifferent to emotional realities as suggesting that a committedly-…

How do you figure that "besides for housing, cost of living does not need to be particularly higher in SV than elsewhere"? While housing is undeniably the most wildly out-of-contro…

That's the point, dude.

The cost of living in the Bay Area is -- and I say this with no figuration -- frightening. It provokes genuine fear in me.

The linked article is much, much better, much more nuanced and insightful, than the Wikipedia page.

You know how much players on professional sports teams make?

Does anyone still drink this stuff?

Do you take David Benatar seriously?

Funny, it seems increasingly apt to me.

When I was in college, my school was disposing of their card catalog by providing the cards as scratch paper for catalog numbers -- next to the computer terminals that had replaced…

This is bonkers logic. It's wrong to coerce someone into providing the cure, but it's right to coerce someone out of forming a monopoly?