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> Your upbringing in a privileged society doesn't make you better than those from less privileged societies, it just makes you privileged We fought and still fight to have the soci…

> the efficient market hypothesis assumes that emotion, mass psychology, etc. don't enter into stock markets Isn't mass psychology part of "public information"?? I know little abou…

I understand your point, but why even mention Uber when the parent specifically said "car sharing"? Likewise, why does the parent bring the topic of "house sharing" when Airbnb is …

But then driving for hire is not the same as car sharing.

As for scalability... I was thinking that for sure free access to internet would be very hard to monitor, but say you limit it to email: That would be certainly much, much easier (…

Not knowing anything about squatter's rights (or law in general), shouldn't it be possible to just create a law putting whatever limits we want on camping WITHOUT the need for it t…

Only 7% of the land in Finland and Sweden is Agricultural land, compared to 70% in the UK, so it's no wonder that the countryside is much more inaccessible. That being said, there'…

>these original, truly Nigerian scams, were less sophisticated than the later Internet imitators, since targeting technical professionals isn't targeting the dumbest of the dumb. O…

I think it's better if nobody benefits from there being scammers. Otherwise those under pay via mehanical turk may be tempted to pose as (or become) scammers themselves

> Spain is just wanted due to the proximity to Africa and a lot of African immigrants/refugees using this vector. I hear this from time to time, but data paints a radically differe…

Why would it? The vast majority of people with whom I interact in OS projects have no clue what my gender (or ethnicity for that matter) is.

Weight does change around the world, mostly because at the equator you are farther away from the centre of mass of the earth than you are at the poles, but also because of local gr…

Aren't you are proving the parent's point there? You say that only articles depicting their own culture are seem as relevant to the american reader, which is what he claims. That's…

I started working out 2 years ago and it changed my life for the better, but it most definitively didn't improve my productivity at work. Why would it?

But isn't the definition of the imaginary unit axiomatic? If so it's indeed true that there is no logical reason why it exists other than it being useful.

Speaking of European Americans... I never really got if the term "Latin" in the US applies to those of Latin European descent (Spanish, French, Romanian, etc.), olny to Latin Ameri…

>I'd rather have people streamline the refueling process than sit in front of a TV and collect a paycheque. You make it look that these two are the only alternatives when they are …

That's a false dicothomy. If the were not wasting their times on a unnecesary job, there is also a chance that they found a useful occupation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_…

I think it's wrong to define an ideology with hundreds of years of history by the actions of a random person you happen to know. Have you ever bothered to read Wollstonecraft? Simo…

Ok, stop the strawman bullshit already. What you describe is NOT feminism by any stretch of imagination. You are describing the imposing of traditional roles based on gender (in yo…

>Ubuntu on other side asks only for user password It's the user password of an admin user. What other password can it possibly ask for? a global su password?

So in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???

>I suspect (and would like to see the stats) that the USA has a higher mortality rate below age 40 than other western countries but that it levels out after that The USA has a lowe…

GMOs are not banned in Europe as a whole, but it looks like only Spain have a significant GMO output [1]. Coincidentally Spain has a nice life expectancy, so there doesn't seem to …

They are different even then. Earnings relate to poverty via the prices of goods. I'm don't know much about economy but after searching in wikipedia I think the term is called "pur…