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As a homeowner I see little benefit for me for the insane value of my home. Do I want to pay more in property taxes? No. If I sell it’s to just buy a different insanely priced home…

On a world scale this is interesting: Jews are only 0.2% of the World’s population, but 17.46% of the World’s billionaires. Thus their representation is 8,730% of their population …

As somebody who's just incapable of acknowledging group-identity diversity is a thing worth respecting (though, I find individual diversity beautiful and fascinating) This was some…

He's seeking just a mere $75k in damages.. there's no reason for Elon to not just pay that and move on, given lawyers would cost more. This frankly looks like Unsworth looking for …

Nope, he never said so. He used the word "considering" - to interpret that to mean it's a done deal is stupid, and all the risk you take is your own.

Unfortunately, Prop 13 passed with 62% :(

The Prop 13 problem is easy to solve technically, if you see the problem as described in this piece... but that's not the problem that needs to be solved. The real problem is Calif…

Sorry I can't answer your question, but I'd bet money it's not a coincidence.. Scheduled births (whether induced or c-section) are prevalent enough that people will just avoid "yuc…

> They made the first fully electric sports car (Roadster). Does the tZero from AC Propulsion that inspired the Tesla Roadster not get the credit because it was just a kit car?

Soc sec. number is used as an immutable unique identifier for Americans since that's really the only piece of information that can be used in such a way. I'm not aware of anybody r…

Even when there isn't a data breech I don't understand how all big 3 credit agencies survive doing their business as they currently do... which is to expose people to the injury of…

I'll try and keep it simple. It helps make code more readable. When I see a bunch of Maybe monads, for example, I can instantly know that the programmer's intent was maybe to not j…

At large airports most, if not all, domestic flights are not serviced in the international terminal for the very reason that once you're past security in the international terminal…

I don't know if this was meant to be a joke but it's rather preposterous. Justices do not make laws, they interpret and apply them, and must do so while being rationally bound and …

SCOTUS has far more than faith. It derives its powers from the constitution, and a constitutional amendment would be needed to destroy it, not merely a lack of faith, and until its…

I used to think this was a good approach to take, to just eliminate marriage, but I eventually changed my mind, and here's why: This isn't a matter of state and religion it's a mat…

Debtors need to take control. They need to collectively seize the paper at the giant discount and then dismiss the debt. How to do such a thing? Seems impossible, but even a 4x or …

Start up times could be a big deal to compete with iOS? Especially in similar app lifecycle models where apps could be stopped and restarted implicitly by the OS?

Not only is this irrelevant to a hacker-entrepreneur it's also somewhat irrelevant to a simple programming career. The sheer dearth of good programming talent makes it a fairly eas…

Being a loser is a good thing. Every success I've had is just me failing a little less hard each time :)