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Absolutely: I am accusing you of either that, clouded thinking, or both. In fact, this discussion is a demonstration of my point. We are both attacking one another's intellectual a…

Quoting the judge, when handing down the death sentences: I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb yea…

Apparently the "shrillest" moment of the "red scare" was correctly convicting two communist spies of treason.

Comment 1: > It's not great, but the idea that attacking people verbally is somehow "better" than attacking them physically is wrong. Comment 2: > Solving disagreements through dis…

That's insane. All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "talking, not hitting."

Acid attacks are just part of living in a big city.

As with the original post, I look forward to the thoughtful, tightly reasoned and unemotional discussion that this post will generate.

Well, if is someone is paying you for your light...

We get more of what we tax less? Weird.

I don't think that that minority is all that small.

Bucko, you have to resurrect this stuff: you must play out The Hero archetype and rescue your dead father from the depths.

If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys: http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/fl…

Dear Toyota: look at this truck, and at the FJ40, and get to work.

Telling the truth will get you fired, ostracized and possibly assaulted today. I don't like it, but telling the truth, like riding a bike to work, is a luxury that only the extreme…

Turns out it wasn't commies that were going to corrupt our precious bodily fluids, but rather post cold war end-of-history ennui.

IQ is 50-80% heritable. There is such a thing as a gifted child.

Basic income + concentrated capitalism is a great way to minimize human liberty and maximize elite control of the population. Friedman also implemented income tax withholding. So, …

Capitalism is very simple. Capitalism as an economic system is essentially defined as the process of private expropriation of public wealth. Technically, the Earth is every creatur…

Many, many code horrors exist today due to a deep and abiding fear developers have of appearing insufficiently smart. Most of the web apps that are being built today have no need f…

Here is a practical reason to start a startup: You are married to someone who makes enough money to push your marginal tax rate on income to the point (it can hit 55%+ in places li…

This is more than a little self serving, but when I switched us over to intercooler.js it made a huge difference in our app. When I pulled the trigger on it I was terrified that I …

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> Don't blame credit, you did this to yourself. Sane western cultures don't allow citizens to fall into debt-peonage. This is why we forbid usury for so many centuries, based on th…