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Says the study I cited, which compared historical shareholder returns for companies with stock voting arrangements like Google's to companies having one class of stock that each ha…

Exactly.

Yes, but eventually they'd have issued enough class A shares to make the class B shares less significant. Now Larry and Sergey can keep their majority votes safe forever. In the lo…

Bad news for Google shareholders in the long run. Companies with multiple share classes having different voting rights tend to underperform companies with stock that is one share, …

Would you be willing to bet $147M that someone hadn't figured out a way around that hardware security? I wouldn't..

You seem to be avoiding addressing the "prone" part of the equation.

Do you think it likely that an entire field that evolved over a period of thousands of years, has thousands of people doing the job all over the world daily, and is so common and i…

Of course between no school and school with loans the choice is clear (in an (post-)industrialized country, mind you). Doesn't always seem clear to me. The whole point of the artic…

Sounds like unreasonable seizure to me. The search didn't sound all that reasonable either.

Since the USPTO is financed by patent application fees it has a perverse incentive to continue promiscuously granting as many patents as possible. I would hope that filers for pate…

You seem to be talking about some sort of very narrow non-motion definition of thermogenesis and I am not. I guess according to you, shivering because one is cold is not thermogene…

I think it could be more than that. Studies have found that some people have burned off an increase of hundreds of calories a day just through an increase in fidgeting. And then th…

His comment says more about the content of the article than most of the other comments. An article about sugar funded by ADM is not an objective source of information, due to the v…

That line alone cost the article much of its credibility in my book. A scientific article should not lump all sugars together as metabolically equivalent.

Not the full thirty pounds, but it could definitely be a contributing factor. And, if one's extremities get warmer while one's core temperature remains the same, the same amount of…

It can be even worse than that. Studies have found some HFCS to contain as much as 65% fructose.

Unless you started exercising, these two statements are incompatible with one another (violates the first law of thermodynamics). What's more likely is you felt "fuller" from eatin…

It's quite possible they should stop being farmers and that the nation should farm out (get it?) much of its agriculture to the developing world. A fundamental reason countries tha…

The organic search results are the loss-leader.

One might argue that the more technologically incompetent the censors are, the better.

One problem is that often the data is highly valued -- the team may have spent years building it. That was clearly not the case with the flawed paper this OP is concerning itself w…

Women who choose to have children, and anyone, male or female, who chooses to take more than six months off for just about any reason.

It's already been tried for some foods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws

From the article: The standards will take effect from April 1, 2013, and will also require residences to offer equal connections to services from various telecom companies allowing…