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There's a difference between re-defining one's local monetary system to use 'chunks of time' instead of money, and variably pricing select goods and services in terms of 'how much …

On behalf of all us, thanks for your work. Does the distance between the two surfaces at different temperatures matter? I'm sure this has occurred to you and your team, but the amb…

> “The two most coveted symbols online are an Instagram verification and being on Forbes 30 Under 30,” said Taylor Offer, founder of an apparel startup called Feat Socks, who menti…

Every time I read a new climate change article or headline, I think about how much of a squandered opportunity the MIT Media Lab represents. It has a budget of $80MM, access to som…

> One day, he proposed, the company could “solve the problem of children without parents,” and from there go onto other causes such as eradicating world hunger. >Mr. Neumann has to…

Oh no! Keep fighting the good fight.

Great, thanks for answering.

They may not! But there is information asymmetry between the advertisers and us individuals. Also, if enough people signed it, such a pledge could be used as a collective bargainin…

That's a great point. People should be able to opt-out.

In all honesty, it's because I did not know that paying for Reddit / Youtube would turn off the ads.

Ah yes, the other end of the spectrum, which I also find not unattractive.

Great question / good points! I don't mean to single out word of mouth recommendations. Perhaps the pledge could be individually modified so that one could specify per-platform def…

I have not heard of the Boulder Pledge, thanks for linking to it. I imagine Roger Ebert was on the receiving end of a lot of unsolicited offers, being a public figure and all.

G4S is the world's third-largest private employer; they run private prisons.

I don't know about you, but I have personally committed to never (or so rarely as to practically be never) respond to advertisements. I'd love to be able to tell advertisers that t…

Nice idea. One issue is that most users will think that you have responded to the incentive to inflate the prices and make yourself look better by comparison. Some ways you can mak…

Other than closely reading the literature that informs what you are writing about, one way to write better quality papers is to reach out to the relevant academic researchers and e…

Because not everything has finite variance.