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When Megabus started I seem to recall that its advantage was (ahem) a less problematic quality of clientele than you get on Greyhound due to the fact that you needed to have an int…

Are these people being naive, or are they just designing a better dish-washing robot? The typical "dish washing robot" that people draw does a much better job of washing dishes. It…

> Google makes no illusion about it any longer, they aim to curate what their users have access to and want to ensure that the curation conforms to an acceptable spectrum of though…

> This is great. Unless Trump is doing this I look forward to seven more years of this kind of thing.

I'm not sure how the US got so hopelessly divided between the red and the blue tribes, or how to fix it. Is it the 24 hour news cycle? Is it a consequence of the office of the Pres…

I don't think the target market is CEOs, it's regular civilians. Grandmothers, teenagers, people whose job doesn't involve computers. These people use their phones for everything, …

>Incentive alignment is a good thing - it's the whole basis of capitalism. The government taking your money and giving it to other people for votes isn't capitalism, it's corruptio…

The US Civil War killed 620,000 people, and ruined the lives of many others. That's pretty freaking bad. On the upside, it freed about 3.9 million slaves, but really there should h…

>Wikipedia is not a place for convincing - it is a catalog of what's currently, broadly accepted. That's true, and it should be the case. But how do we distinguish between "that wh…

Thanks, death penalty opponents, for insisting that scarce budgets be spent keeping him alive all this time.

It's possible nowadays with a bit of effort to create entirely new "facts" via a one-two shuffle between news sources and Wikipedia. First, you publish an article on some news sour…

This is fine as far as flat Earthism goes, but flat Earthism is a ridiculous outlier even among ridiculous fringe theories. By making your prototypical example of a dubious minorit…

The US is also a major outlier among the places you mentioned, in that it's still breeding at above-replacement rates. I wonder if the difficulty of getting a house/car that can co…

So we split Facebook into multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other?

So I could no longer be Facebook friends with my friends on different continents?

You could contract different lines out to different companies. I think Tokyo does this. At the very least, though, you could contract out the running of the whole system to a compa…

In the US, the price of unskilled labour has been deliberately driven down by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws. Even a year after the election of a President who was …

But they can opt out of any order they don't want to fulfill, right? Who would choose to fulfill that crazy order for the price on offer?

Women tend to desire men who are older, richer and more educated. Men tend to desire women who are young, hot, and of good character. Men can't always get what they want, either, b…

It seems that this "voting rights act" is a form of mandated gerrymandering, which ought to be done away with. I can't say exactly what the boundaries ought to be, but taking the c…

I don't think it's so bad to mix metric and imperial units; I'm in favour of using whatever units keep the numbers readily comprehensible. Grams of protein per ounce of food seems …

And also the present, and at least part of the future.

The job would be made even easier if Rolling Stone went back to being about music, though, and tried to avoid talking about Trump or Clinton, and the like, except where strictly ne…

>My point was just that the US and Colombia aren't radically different in terms of economic inequality. What if you take into account the non-linear value of money, though? This se…

>He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students in the first year class at Olin College of Engineering. It's impressive not so much that he did that, but that he bothered to try…