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The ones who fight cynism are the most cynic.

Here is a page with a lot of good examples of more accessible modern classical music: http://lukemuehlhauser.com/how-to-fall-in-love-with-modern-c...

Trump also has nothing to offer the rural midwest. The difference was that he pretended that he had. Even if manufacturing and coal mining where to increase ten fold, there would b…

Of course, things turned out way better for him than he could have planned, but that doesn't rule out that there was some plan behind it. Step 1. He also attacked pentagon and Wash…

It would have been quite stupid, though, to reveal the plan too early.

Of course, it's difficult to know for sure if that was the original plan or not. However the actions seem to be quite consistent with that strategy: Choosing Afghanistan (the grave…

He seems to have completely missed the reason for 9/11, which is not strange since it was not until the 2004 speech ( http://worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm ) that bin Laden expla…

Hmm, did you try searching for it before posting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_fi...

Mathematically, tau is clearly superior, since it represents a full circle. The question is whether the gain is big enough compared to the trouble of introducing a new constant. It…

I think this poses a real threat to the open web itself. First we have DRM video and soon after music. Next the game industry wants to protect their source code. And app developers…

Wow, 60 lives were saved and 40 persons less had surgical complications! Just in 3 month in Ontario. Of course, there was not enough data yet to conclude any improvement within the…

> The miseries from bank runs and crashes are real, but even so, the total impact on human welfare from fractional reserves has been overwhelmingly positive. It surely has been pos…

An event like this is important as an eye opener, to show the citizens that there are alternatives to the current car focused city. If enough people like the alternative version, i…

The tool for that is demurrage , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29 , which adds devaluation of the currency over time. This complements Basic Income very well, …

Well, assuming you run the JIT on its own code it could be considered conscious to a tiny degree. It can analyze it's code, but only at a very low level, with no understanding of h…

For me consciousness is "the ability to analyze and influence your own thoughts". This might not correspond 100% to what philosophers mean, but it has the immense advantage of maki…