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Public transist in LA is akin to mild torture. I feel for those who have to take it every day for work. Aside from the haphazard and oblique bus scheduling routes, the ride itself …

I agree, but there's a range of people who live in their cars. Some cause destruction, trash and probably aren't employed or trying to work in a legitimate way. Hard drug use, crim…

America should be helping fight for a world where we don't need fish police. In other words, we should encourage governments that naturally want to act in a reasonable, secular-bas…

I'm not directly responding to your comment but some of the best sushi chefs use fish that was frozen. And this says all sushi served in the US has to be freezed to kill any bacter…

Good comment but I wouldn't suggest saying you look like you are from someplace far away. Just sticking with the standard where you are from is good. Better to have traveled out of…

General Hayden was recently on Sam Harris' podcast and he briefly explained the 'retroactive collection' concept- https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/privacy-and-security I'd sa…

The video clip seemed unusually harsh. The reporter said he'd announced the Hyperloop to "thrill and confuse"? Followed by several skeptical tones and questions all while contrasti…

But fraud is up. Chip & Pin has just motivated them to use online methods. Or load other pay to load cards without a chip.

Aren't cops supposed to be a neutral party? Shouldn't they have inquired what was happening and tried to find all possible ways to communicate without force? Cops in the US seem wa…

The first thing Trump was supposed to do was introduce an Amendment for term limits (Washington Post). Cruz proposed one that would limit Senators to 2 terms and Representatives to…

Facebook is like a network TV sitcom, produced around advertising. Everything is artificially distorted for that purpose.

And your suggestion about classism is moral relativism. Who is corrupt? The guy giving away $8 billion or the one who founded GiveWell? And one of their focuses is criminal justice…

It's not a business, it's a non profit founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, with $1 billion in committments to funding. How is this controversial? Just because some people …

It seems objectively better for some people to have access to money -- in this case the GiveWell founder. He's done great work there and now he's helping OpenAI all via a Facebook …

I don't think a rich 24 year old kid, doing something that was widely considered an attack against the Establishment, is something that is highly unusual or bad. It doesn't seem fa…

When things go bad, the tendency for people to lie is shocking. I lived with a business partner, and decided to move out. Him and his girlfriend begged me to stay but I wanted priv…

A bus anyway in LA is substantially longer than driving. LA traffic is so annoying that a lot of people would likely take the bus if it was faster. If there were 10x more busses, a…

I went to Pavilions grocery store the other day, and when I got home, the Facebook app said, "Have you been to Pavilions recently? Click here." I want Facebook to find friends and …

That service still exists for $5-12/month (dvd.netflix.com) for 1-2 discs at a time.

I disagree. One reason, is that in a 6 or 9-handed game, most players will be folding 70-80% of the time. The AI will be able to understand players tendencies faster than heads-up.…

I've had ten friends take Adderall and all of them exhibited the same characteristics as a person on meth. They are not fun to be around. Sometimes they would be highly productive,…

I assume he's referring to the guaranteed boost rates which range from 1.1 to 2x the fare. So a passenger could pay $30 for a $60 ride. It's not practical since you'd be losing the…

Yeah, that's the same as admitting to hiring mentally ill people, homeless guys and young kids to start violent interactions.