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It depends on the size of cooperative how much you have to be involved --- if it's only one house, you'll surely have to be involved. Other coops have thousands of members, in thes…

There is a solution to the housing problem besides home ownership and renting: Housing cooperatives. These are still relatively common in Germany, my parents live in a flat owned b…

I was more referring to the fact that EA promotes philanthropy instead of asking why we have inequalities in the first place. So it evades questions of redistribution or fairness i…

My two cents on why his writings are popular: - He uses anecdotal evidence which appears to be sound at first. Looking at the top 100 billionaires seems to give a good idea on how …

The author puts Gödel's Incompleteness and the Continuum hypothesis on the same level, which is misleading. The continuum hypothesis is unprovable in our current mathematical found…

Which is mostly due to safety concerns, the fire regulations are not met by BER due to a complete chaos in planning the construction. Nowadays, big projects in the West are far mor…

I would hardly say it shows the effectiveness of philanthropy - this is just one college and has very limited effects on the healthcare system as a whole. In Germany for instance h…

You are right, they solved the particular problem I highlighted with Modifiers. But the main question remains: Why don't they utilize the progess we made in decades of research for…

I didn't have high expectations for Solidity considering the recent vulnerabilities, but even these were disappointed. If some guy writes this kind of code at home, alright, but th…

You should rethink the logo "HH" though.. (it's a neonazi identification sign)

The CCC used an old digicam at medium distance. It is quite likely that such a photo is on FB, Instagram etc. Side note: The CCC even recovered the fingerprint of the Germany's def…

I can obtain an image of you online, while I need to be on-site to spot you typing your pin. So if I have your phone, I can do research at home to break in. Additionally, you canno…

For me it was the finding that mathematics is quite arbitrary. There is no deeper meaning in using functions, sets or logic, it just seems to work. These still are just models of t…

As soon as you understood something, it does not seem complex anymore. But before you understood it, it was a mystery. So what is it that you now think is obvious but where others …