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The speaker's previous presentation at a different year of the same conference, about using online records to fabricate your own death or the birth of a made-up baby, is also worth…

He's probably better described as an anarcho-syndicalist (I don't think "social libertarian" does the radicalness of his politics justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-sy…

Just as a heads up, the adjustment of putting your heels on a 5lb plate is actually used to train depth in the squat. "Ass-to-grass" is the squat standard for weightlifting (i.e., …

The absurd award of the Peace Prize is not without precedent, though. Consider that Henry Kissinger was a laureate in 1973.

I read an NYT article a while ago that made the argument that the effect of people who did not support the Vietnam War evading the draft was a military that was, twenty or so years…

This reminds me of the Fleming Bond novel Moonraker , in which a whole chapter is devoted to the idiosyncrasies of the villain who is being challenged by Bond via bridge.

At first glance there seems to be pieces that could be simplified. E.g., in this image http://community.wolfram.com//c/portal/getImageAttachment?fi... , there are 2 1x1 bricks in m…

Clapper came to my school to talk and I asked him "to speak about the allegations of perjury". He was not amused, and repeated the line about having forgotten about the PATRIOT Act…

In addition to your misreading of Homage to Catalonia , you also misattributed -- the author you're looking for is Thomas Friedman.

An interesting problem that came up during development of the Navy version, which has to land on carriers: when the landing gear and hooks were first tested, the placement of the b…

How did you know what he meant then?

Saw "5000" in the title and immediately thought of this book.

I actually don't think it's much of an ode to war or anything. I go to the Naval Academy like Heinlein did, and when I read the small details of military life and the grandiose cal…

I read Starship Troopers and The Forever War back-to-back in like three days, and I wasn't so much of a fan of Haldeman's book, the writing just didn't seem as good to me as Heinle…

Fish oil yay, multi-vitamin meh.

I only made a clarification, not a stance on the matter.

The plants dying point is somewhat irrelevant in this context as 80,000 Hours's philosophy stems from Peter Singer's brand of utilitarian ethics that interpret suffering as it rela…

I love his writing in his essay "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh" [1], regardless of its political/journalistic merits [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/09/mcveigh200109

Also relevant is the reversed phrase, "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by X (some other reasonable cause)."

One of their counter-arguments to your second sentence is that if you, the ethically-minded person who will donate a significant portion of your income, aren't in that position at …

You could say though that USAID is not Americans, per se, but the American government caring about African people, and anyway it could also be raised that in relative terms not tha…

Hitchens fan?

I like your distinction, and for the same reason think that there shouldn't be separate laws for the assault of a police officer -- there should just be laws for assault.