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I have spent so much time in Canada and it is just unbelievable watching the country go more and more insane. What I have read about the Harms act is so bat shit crazy that it is h…

"Harmful" has really become a ridiculous word in my lifetime. In Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone it mentions how MIT professor/Black Jack card counting/Hedge Fund manager E…

I am sure part of the reason we have popcorn at the movies is that popcorn was easy to scale. I guess tastes just change. Dinner and a movie did not use to mean dinner AT the movie…

For me, any one of the issues would be a problem in isolation but the combination of issues makes it so going to the movies isn't something I really consider. Oppenheimer was the f…

It seems a constant that raves were better 10 years ago before everything became commercialized. "It use to be about the music" I remember hearing this 25 years ago. Of course, wha…

I made a pointless cube with a square in VRML a long time ago and VR is ultimately going to be the biggest tech disappointment of my life. The killer app is what I have when I get …

The irony is that youtube was largely built on copyright violation with taking everything that existed in video before youtube and giving it away for free.

Nasdaq returns by year 2002 -37.58 2001 -32.65 2000 -36.84 The people that think this is bad, can't imagine what 2002 was like when the all time high in the Nasdaq was a few days a…

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I imagine everyone in this thread is basically correct. The only real thing we have done to combat cancer is stop smoking so much while at the same time increasing every other fact…

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That is great anecdote. I have been trying to get into Schoenberg for about 30 years now and besides for Yuja Wang playing his Piano Suite I continue to fail.

Exactly. There are all these steps you don't even think about when you actually have to leave the house. I have estimated that I have to go on about a 90-100 minute walk a day to g…

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I think in the US it is the same issue as Tata. I might buy a Tata Altroz for $7500 if I could go to a Tata dealer and test drive one but Tata doesn't even sell to the US from my u…

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Then couple that with the stress of testifying. I have none of these issues but testifying like this would be hugely stressful. I would have to suspect he felt trapped and this was…

It is almost like Occam's Razor proposes some type of probability distribution, not discounting the fringe completely but suggesting as a heuristic that the most simple is most lik…

Totally agree. I am not a professional developer. I find programming to be quite dull and uninteresting. I am going to work on something after this pot of coffee brews that I simpl…

IMO we underestimate the psychological implications of wealth in modern society. I suspect even if a power ball lottery winner takes a philosophical position it would be taken far …

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This all reminds me of my asshole great uncle making fun of me as a teenager circa 1997 while I was at the computer and on the internet. Sarcastically asking me "Can you meet girls…