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I'd love to see drug trials funded by tax dollars, ideally informed by a legal prediction market on which trials are likely to succeed or fail. The people betting on pharma stocks …

The price of rent roughly tracks the price of a mortgage, and apartments are only about 20% of all homes. If this legislation passes, and home prices go down, then rental prices fo…

D'oh. abolition -> prohibition in the above

My inference from nature supported a non-moral point, namely "[abortion is] going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law." As for my moral argument, I invite you to…

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bruce-effe... If animals do it in nature, and humans do it with dangerous methods when denied access to safe methods, it's going t…

Do we agree it's a bad sign when a model treats lived human experience as noise?

> I don't think Tor tries to accomplish the same goal as Orchid If the goal isn't "Anonymity Online" (taken from torproject.org), what is Orchid's goal? > afaik Tor still doesn't h…

> our users mostly buy in using "in-app purchases", which has led to use implementing various restrictions on spending them. Browsing through the code, it looks like Orchid's xdai …

There's a great Warren Buffett quote on this: "Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you …

if the devs only have 76k of capital right now, maybe also pays for ramen?

He spent a decade of nights-and-weekends effort on making kids better at math and science, taking what I understand to be startup level risks in the beginning. How much do you thin…

> No, society tolerating those vocal trolls does mean that society is sexist. What change in society would count as not tolerating these trolls?

TL;DR: OP hasn't tried haskell yet ;p

If I am understanding this correctly: 1. My 1 year old cousin is likely to die somewhere between ~1.1 and 2 years old. 2. My 96 year old grandfather is likely to die somewhere betw…

> But, actually do want to test them for radioactivity lol. Anybody know about this? Perhaps buy a radiation tester? https://smile.amazon.com/GQ-GMC-300E-Plus-Radiation-dosimete...…

> Every interview I've see with Damore after him getting fired confirms that he's a misogynist. The only one I'm familiar with is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WoeOkj2Ng ... wh…

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows: You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no unders…

I actually really like this idea, and almost clicked away before understanding it. Maybe try describing it as "What if every Trello card had its own Google Doc?" (I'm sure you have…

> Most other drugs have to be proven safe to use even before showing tangible benefits. What? I encourage you to read about prescription drug side effects. If a drug were safe, it …

> Because men love electronics projects and women love keeping a tidy house and ruining their dreams, am I right? I don't think this is accurate. Personally, I've had a lot of trou…

There's no point in using a hashing algorithm that can be maliciously collided.

> At one point after days of training, my agent actually had a 90% LOSE rate against an opponent that played totally randomly. To this day I am baffled by this. This is indeed baff…