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I have never understood why, post 9/11, planes were not modified to remove the cabin to cockpit door, and make the cockpit door a separate entrance. This would more or less complet…

Have you read the decision? That is an odd way to frame it...a corporation cannot ‘be the government’, and there is nothing in that decision that says they were. The more applicabl…

Incorrect. See Marsh v Alabama

I don't understand the fixation with Wikileaks' motive. That seems independent of whether their information is true or false.

There seems to be a common bait-and-switch tactic performed by proponents of UBI, in which they mention UBI as a replacement for social programs when talking about affordability, b…

Counterpoint: As Taleb points out, car accident deaths are 'thin-tailed'; that is, the rate of car fatalities is essentially fixed (and predictable by looking at past data), while …

There's also a certain kind of person who seems to really want 10x people _not_ to exist. I'm not a 10x person, but I have worked with some. I don't think they are unique to progra…

As a thought experiment, for people who agree with the idea that a company 'owns' all of the thought-output of an employee: Why should that mean only the valuable IP, and not _all_…

It's quite funny, but.. " The followers advice is dropping the curly brackets for these one-line ifs to make them all happy. " I have never understood why anyone would do this. It'…

"And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book, t…

I feel compelled to point out that your question has 2 assumptions: - that the RNC is equally corrupt as the DNC - that Assange has (or could obtain) evidence of that corruption. I…

You can have a similar epiphany with regard to corporate taxes, which are ultimately paid by the consumer.

Oddly enough, I just finished the last episode of this series 10 minutes before seeing this link posted (and your comment). It is uniformly excellent, and well worth the time commi…

"There was rampant shadiness back in the day" ...this is an actual quote from a major paper? Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like unbelievably sloppy language for someon…

NB: you've mixed up spot and process colors ( spot = pantone, process = CMYK dots ), but otherwise correct.

Reading arguments for Basic Income makes me realize what it must be like to argue with a flat-earth proponent. I literally can't understand the frame of mind that leads to the beli…

Even simpler: Completely separate the cockpit from the passenger cabin. Without the possibility to use the hijacked plane to take hostages to a friendly destination, or to use the …

So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?

I really don't understand how a 'basic' income is supposed to work. What if I spend my basic income on drugs and hookers? are you willing to let me starve? what about my kids? If n…

"One of the male delegates spoke for too long, as happens on every panel" ...and I stopped reading.

I'm sorry, but this is nonsensical. 'Poor' people, on the whole, work less, and have a better standard of living now than for most of recorded history. It's much more likely that o…

Medical professionals and hospital rooms are absolutely finite resources. You can certainly build more, either by incentivizing their construction (capitalism) or have the state bu…

Whenever someone says that some rivalrous resource is a 'basic human right', I have a hard time taking them seriously. As I get older, I have mellowed a great deal, and I understan…

Because if we aren't causing it, then there's very little reason to make vast changes to our way of life in hopes of preventing it.