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I had the opposite experience.

Regulations are generally bad because they can be gamed. They produce a huge population of rent seeking parasites who work for the government to make regulation complex so only the…

> agents are forced to throw all common sense out the window when handling people It is not common sense but totally sensical. A grandma could have been threatened to strap it on h…

People are and have never been squeamish about killing. They just don't like to witness gore in their own backyards while they are enjoying brunch with their families. Concentratio…

If foreign students want to make American friends, they should be prepared to feel uncomfortable and also be willing to make others uncomfortable. There is no easy way. You have to…

Did you ever violate speed limit and not pay a fine? I am guessing you did many times. If you had paid the fine, you'll be too broke to own a device to post this comment. It also m…

There are illegal aliens in this country because this country let them come in. We let them in so they can pick fruits, landscape our lawns, babysit our children, all at a huge dis…

I would disagree with Steven King here. Once you write down ideas, it allows you to reconsider them later in a different light, a difference context. I believe that is extremely va…

Its naive to believe that President Trump's _temporary_ ban on Muslim immigration will be the end of the story. It will just be the start of a nightmare. It took about 10 years for…

> You're comparing a religion and political ideology where large parts of its 1600 000 000 followers think it's okay to kill apostate People in civilized societies are judged based…

Homes prices had also always been trending up, until they didn't starting in 2008.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Allegations of harmful effects of smoking were also once crackpot ideas. So was lung cancer due to working in coal mines. The point …

Don't mess with complex systems we don't understand. Whether it is GMOS, global climate or administering antibiotics to animals. It should be incumbent upon those tinkering with co…

> We have less forest coverage than Japan. Japan has forest coverage of 67%, which is very respectable. New Zealand has 31.87%. Next 3 countries after New Zealand are Germany, Cana…

So Heroshima and Nagasaki were terrorist attacks?

This is apropos for this thread "The wealth of the 85 richest people equals that of half the world's population, says development charity Oxfam http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne…

I agree with the point that traders can easily quantify their value, but there is a more fundamental reason at play here. First, trading is a very scalable profession. The more you…

The Economist needs to understand the difference experiencing happiness and remembering happiness. Behavioral economists have done years of research differentiating the two. It mak…

Generally speaking, we institutionalize the incompetent. We don't allow them to run around harming themselves and others, sign contracts, and the like. We also rehabilitate them. J…

Agree. The two systems aren't equivalent. The U.S system is worse. You can't even bribe your way to what you want.

> It is totally rational for a woman to ask: "I'm willing to give up all this, what are you willing to do?" Giving up sex with other women.

> The IQ of children is highly correlated with the IQ of parents There is plenty of research to suggest that socio-economic (SES) status is the driving factor behind IQ, not geneti…

So where is the grudge against airlines charging for checked bags?