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It's a good measure of the values of our culture that the only argument we can make (that has even a remote change of working) against willfully causing the extinction of great num…

I think some incredibly cool music apps could be created with this. Excited to get one when it's released.

I'd like to add another way of thinking of it. Several years ago I was part of a group working on a project that was composed of people from various companies. One of the attendees…

I worry about the effects on my eardrums of 5-6 hours of wearing headphones....try to limit it to 2 hours max. So really, the optimal solution to me is to work in a non-cubicle sce…

Care to source that? Anyway, the point is there's something wrong when capital income is taxed at half the rate of labor income. In particular, taxing carried interest income that …

Because one half of the political system is stridently opposed to infrastructure spending and wants to pour all available government investment into the military.

$1 trillion in student loan debt you say? Simple solution, let the Fed print up and loan out 0% interest loans that roll over indefinitely and hand them out to students, just like …

They need someone who actually knows and cares about product development. Job one to me is to fix yahoo mail, which is just horrendous. They have good market share but it is so muc…

"What is plaguing Latin America is NOT the legacy of colonialism but..." Anybody who's been to Latin America with open eyes knows that statement is absurd.

Actually packaged food companies do, in fact, employ teams of scientists to make their food products as addictive as possible via sophisticated flavor engineering. Rense has a good…

There isn't a need for a single international treaty to deal with this. Simply levy import tariffs on products by companies who refuse to pay their fair share of taxes, or use slav…

Despite your sarcasm, do you have any evidence of nations who have no import restrictions or government subsidies and have built up a competency? China and India are notorious for …

Well maybe companies should start thinking about what it takes to retain employees? Perhaps start retirement programs that incentivize people to stay with them for a number of year…

Well then maybe they shouldn't have been using pavement and even more to the point, not packing people into cities. We should spread out and use things like horses because they are…

I agree with the concept of a future without cars. However, this is one of these areas where an entire discussion can go on with mostly Americans and our willingness to look at how…

I think the real problem with RSS uptake is there's a lack of the 2-way discoverability that goes on with twitter. When you follow someone on twitter (or facebook) the feed origina…

The whole self-driving car thing seems insane to me. How about, good public transportation? I don't see the point of people sitting in individual metal boxes when buses and the lik…

It's his job to do whatever big business wants.

Yes clearly that is what the article author is suggesting. However, this core concept, that humans should / will start genetically engineering ourselves, needs much more discussion…

Try not watching TV then.

"The subgroup of people who prefer pseudo-names is relatively small compared to the larger population" Totally untrue. I have many regular people who have totally fake or semi-fake…

You have to articulate a goal to get there. I'm not going to make obvious comparisons but clearly there were plenty of legal regimes in the past that people thought could never end…

Right, a slave labor job at Foxconn staffed by villagers who went to the city and are desperate for any salary whatsoever are middle class jobs. Makes total sense. The idea that Am…

Agreed and there is a solution here: the United States needs to stop being hypocritical about workers rights by maintaining dual standards for US and foreign based workers. There n…