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>has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads" Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it…

Using Sam Harris as an example is way too charitable to the average person. Most people are not first-principles thinkers about politics. They are self-interested. Where that motiv…

Its backstory is famously that it was developed by some guy as a side project, and that guy's tacky username is in the title. I mean, what did you expect?

Please. Don't. Scrolljack.

>I fully expect the short-length, autodidact or mediocre students to be entering a saturated market within the next five years. That cuts against every labor demand projection. Fra…

As we have seen in recent elections, replacing politicians with non-politicians has been a disaster for the country. Why is a scientist running better than a science-aware politici…

It doesn't with IE10 though. And there's no way to fall back to flex or another column system. Which means, if you need to support IE10, you need a whole parallel set of styles. Th…

It's a real thing but it can't physically reach some of the places the victims were said to be affected and it's not known to cause many of the specific symptoms suffered by the vi…

It'd be one thing if the use of torture was increasing over time across our society, or all societies. But using "torture was recently brought back" as a data point to rebut an ove…

Based on casual observation of what other customers are ordering from my frequent visits to Chipotle, it seems like queso has been a complete failure. I don't understand why they t…

Interesting. So salting your plates skirts reflectivity and plate obstruction laws because a) the plate is still visually unobstructed, and b) the laws apply specifically to the re…

I just really can't imagine, given the progression we see in AI image recognition on a daily basis these days, that medical fields like dermatology or radiology that revolve around…

My mom is a radiologist nearing retirement and from the time we were old enough to seriously consider career paths she would tell us "Do not become a radiologist". As she tells it,…

The guides on places like /r/DarkNetMarkets do actually recommend shipping to your own address, under your own name.

The color scheme here is really poor. It took me too long to realize that bright orange was not a step down from bright red, but in fact dark red, pink, and dark orange were betwee…

>why is ether course virtually identical? Because many people that hold it bought it together with BTC as speculation and decided to sell simultaneously

>I tend to overplay them because I feel like doing otherwise would be gloating. A lot of life events are the same way. When someone asks how work's going, I don't want to be honest…

>I'm actually surprised if it's legal for a bank to refuse to provide cash withdrawals There are online-only banks now like Simple and Ally; they obviously can't provide cash. If t…

Right but this part... >giving owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. an advantage in the race among technology giants to capture the next generation of internet users ...seems suspect. …

>Sure, you get some binge subscribers who exploit the system, but they're not enough to bring down the entire enterprise. Especially for movie theaters, where the marginal cost of …

Pretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".

That's actually pretty clever since it draws the viewer's attention and also associates good feelings (humor) with the brand. So it's a parody of product placement that also happen…