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Yup. This isn't news. This site has a hateful obsession with all things crypto. I think it's driven by a mixture of frustration at the irrationality of markets and bitterness about…

Yeah, and McDonald's is one of the most popular restaurants. Doesn't say much about the quality of restaurants in general. There's a lot of a wildly good, life-changing fiction out…

Nazi Russia? Not once, but twice?

And the war on privacy continues. Legislators have a bad habit of creating intentionally vague laws that have almost unlimited discretionary scope. “Show me the man and I’ll show y…

Interesting story. From the headline, I thought this was going to be a culture-war type of article. I wasn't expecting evidence of a real cult.

>A government that does not respect the bodily autonomy of women isn't going to respect privacy for too long if it enables the former. For the record, I don't have a problem with a…

That's terrible! Can this be allowed to continue?

So, to get this straight, the working definition here for "socially conservative" is anyone who steals things or exploits others, regardless of whether they support gay rights or v…

>Somehow I find albini's version too toyed with (some instruments pops out at times) I'm a professional record producer and songwriter. Here are my thoughts: Very likely it's the o…

Why is the terminology always that the US gets to "punish" everyone else? It reeks of American exceptionalism and misguided paternalism, not to mention dubiously claimed moral high…

No, I was specifically responding to the person who said that it was "cool" that governments used covid resstrictions as a pretext for running "social experiments." I am specifical…

>many countries took the opportunity to run large-scale social experiments under the guise of Covid Restrictions Regardless of how you define tyranny, how can you be so blithely su…

How do you explain the prices of Class-C shares which don't bestow voting rights to the holder? For example, GOOG trades for over 2000 a share. In fact, it even trades at a $50 pre…

This implementation produced almost no useful answers. One of the 'Friendly No' outputs contained this sentence: "No, I'm sorry I can't attend the meeting because the topic is ridi…

Weird definition of uber successful. They'll probably have steady employment but their mental health/personal anguish is probably distributed similarly to the rest of the populatio…

Same experience. What's the point of a message board where you can't read the posts?

So, as of this comment, all I know is that Simon Sinek has a book called The Infinite Game. This book has an interesting premise, about which I just read a short writeup and analys…

I loved this book It's not exactly science - but it's very stimulating. It guides you through a wide variety of historical, scientific, and literary sources, painting a picture of …