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You also have to consider that faces are one of the things that we have the strongest perception of, with lots of our neurons dedicated to the task, so when you get things wrong it…

I recommend thinking about what you can do that would significantly differentiate the gameplay from what is possible irl. Just putting laser tag in VR is a downgrade in many aspect…

It seems plainly obvious that history shows the opposite is true; corruption is increased when money and power are centralized amongst a few people. There's a reason the term "Robb…

This article's title is disingenuous and is guilty of the same thing it accuses the study of. The actual content of this article is the following (TLDR) 1) That the study didn't sh…

No way to fail it but you also can't pass a non-existent test. N/A for cases like this would be more accurate.

That's not entirely true. Having a national presence can pay off in terms of being able to sign deals with larger clients.

The USA is already one of the world leaders in percent of population incarcerated; it doesn't seem we are suffering from an inability to imprison. If we as a society decide to revo…

All these "illegal" guns started their life as brand-new perfectly legal firearms. It's a very leaky pipeline, one in which the industry and industry funded lobby groups have at le…

>>> training your body to see the virus sooner and know how to attack it with less "training" This is literally how every vaccine ever made works.

There's a difference between the way our minds work and the way reality works. In reality a physical object can only exist in one place which naturally leads to hierarchal organiza…

The goals of a nation-state are not the same as those of a corporation. Having a monopoly on a strategically important industry is valuable in and of itself, especially when viewed…

People love to roll out this popular criticism of democracy but there is very little actual evidence to support it. It can be quite a bit more expensive and much more visible when …

The approach that would be most interesting to me would be if you could build out your assets with really high quality assets, along with engine friendly low quality versions and t…

It's unfortunately nowhere near a stealth UBI experiment and really just a classic welfare trap, in the vein of so many other government programs. There are many bad incentives in …

We are talking about liquid assets though, not net worth. As other commenters have pointed out, the middle class has most of their net worth tied up in non-liquid assets such as ca…

I think you need to adjust your internal model as to what constitutes solidly middle class. To quote some more realistic numbers: >> Here, we define the middle class as the middle …

This is a poorly written op-ed. The author claims to prioritize the valorization of wealth, the encouragement of saving, and the encouragement of children, but fails to make any ca…

What competitors?

This gets into a chicken and egg argument. You are arguing that the level of demand is leading to the current price point, while complainers about E Ink argue that anti competitive…

Seems pretty obvious to me that conservatives would be as susceptible to prejudices as the rest of humanity. Stating that common prejudices amongst those who identify as conservati…

I trust their business incentives more than my ability to self-host securely and I value the convenience more than the extra cost.

There's no such thing as perfect and unimpeachable and attempts to move the needle eventually have diminishing results and steadily increasing costs on the system. If you let a sid…

“Corporations are capital mafias that extort money from employees or government. They do whatever they can for shareholders at the expense of people that rely on those jobs. Furthe…

It's more that intelligent people are still human, and human beings are not good at being clear-headed when they feel that their identity is being attacked (ego protection). If you…

Set yourself a threshold amount that you are okay with a 100% loss on, and a periodic schedule based on your risk-appetite. At each interval if you are above your threshold you sel…