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What makes you think we invent systems like capitalism at all? If you could point out that you can read this, that would be great.

This one will depend on your geographical region. I believe if you wanted to really hedge against the kind of scenarios that can render stock markets themselves worthless you would…

I have become convinced I must start a small tomato patch. I encountered a dreadful tomato last week. It contaminated my BLT sandwich to a luricious point where even the bacon was …

I hear a litany of complaints from parents about paying for childcare, and also with paying for grandpa/grandma's nursing facilities. If you add up the costs and deduct them from s…

There is no need for a train. I'm sure you've heard of Tiny Houses. The larger ones are roughly 8.5 ft wide (10-12 ft with wide permits), 32 ft long. This can be quite heavy, you s…

I spoke to the author and she said: "You are right that there is lot of evidence that the expectation of reciprocity strengthens the loop, but there is also evidence that non-coope…

> Couldn't you argue that the majority of cars are built mostly with robots? There may not be a brake changing robot, but I bet there's a brake installing one. When it gets to the …

The adage 'birds of a feather flock together' is a true one. Our ability to communicate with each other relies most strongly on shared experience esp. with regard to normative beha…

Did anybody understand where Margaret Levi got this? "Indeed, the expectation of reciprocity can both reduce and even undermine altruism." Surely expectation of reciprocity would m…

As I see it, neurodiversity is more useful if the environment suddenly changes. In a stable environmental niche most forms of neurodiversity are probably a drawback. For instance (…

Surely we have devised experiments for which the use of the human genome is indeed expendable? e.g. tissue cultures.

We have a positive surplus of intelligent ambitious people in Japan, Europe and America. What we don't have is savings or capital. This malaise is generational, not regional.

I would not associate The Young Turks with Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman.

Try Archive 81.

I see that. I don't see a lot of urgency in our societies either. Perhaps you have seen this: https://i.redditmedia.com/LkKBNe1NW51Wh-8nLSTRdQtTha2sV1yY46... I blame the television…

Have you seen this? https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199300...

Heretic! Prepare to be smote down by a rain of arrows!

As much as I endorse concepts like Minimalism, Tiny Houses and Ride Sharing for reasons of practicality/economy, it should be abundantly obvious we're getting poorer. It is not eve…

I'll be filing this next to Wired Magazine's "Five Most Dangerous People on the Internet".

No.

If you would like to have a positive story this Christmas, then for Tiny Housers we had some Building Codes people formally include us into their thing. In the future it will be le…

There is another far more terrible weapons system nobody is talking in public about. We should assume this 'space based missile' is a distraction from something so monstrous the pu…

I have not, it resides mere feet away on my bookshelf and I shall read it this Winter :-)

I love audio drama, these are the good ones. Sayer | If AGI ran your space station/life. http://geeklyinc.com/category/sayer/ EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www…

Are you listening cstross? It is time to write a novel about the evils of peace among the spacefaring. Service guarantees citizenship!