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This letter is missing (willingly or unwillingly) the point of the original Pinker statement: Comparisons do exist and they indeed show us that we are better off, but are the compa…

"Bloody and brutal coup"... oh the hiperbole.

Why the fuck is this being downvoted? Fucking retarded idiots in your moral high horse.

Sincerely, it was kind of funny, specially taking into account the dark mood that sets in in the beginning of the article.

It might seem far fetched right at the moment but some thinkers and economists are already seeing a guaranteed basic income for EU countries during the next decades which in time s…

It's quite interesting this news comes out when USD is taking an heavy hit against HKD for the last days: https://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=usdhkd=X Depending in the leverage they used…

Do you know the reason they did it? Then yes, it's relevant, since it's very well a possible explanation.

I wouldn't be surprised if they would claim they are doing this to stop harassment to the female staff and everybody just accepts it. Combating female harassment in the academia is…

I wonder if there is any project starting to re-write Emacs according to modern practices like we now have NeoVIM for VIM. I really like editing in VIM but I moved to Emacs using S…

You are not very good in exponential growth. Since non Muslims in France have a natality rate of 1.70 per woman (in fact it's lower you can see why in the link) and Muslim a rate o…

Not in the future no. If the Islamic population in France becomes the majority, and that's a reasonable possibility during this century, then it's perfectly acceptable that part of…

Just look at all the migrants from North Africa flooding Europe right this moment. It's not far fetched to think that during this generation or in the next one that will cause a ma…

Many people think that but archeological evidence says the contrary. Caries only started showing up in humans 3000-4000 years ago when we started doing agriculture and eating cerea…

My thoughts exactly. I'm in my 30's, I've never had dental problems and every time I go to a dentist and he suggests to remove my wisdom teeth, I change to another dentist. These t…

> This is incorrect. The blockchain requires miners to establish an unbiased ledger history. The difficulty parameter is tweaked so that the whole system can be future proofed agai…

HTTPS encryption doesn't get more difficult to compute as time goes by. HTTPS is the means to an end, bitcoin is just wasting resources. If the point was just to maintain the block…

Well, it still doesn't make it "good design".

Good design: Then we are taken to a page with a banner so big that you have to realize that you need to scroll way past the bottom of the screen to actually reach the content.

Dear Republicans from the USA, do you want Hillary Clinton as president? Cause that's how you get Hillary Clinton as president.

A bank transfer within the Euro Zone takes less than 1 work day to complete (if you do it until 15:00).

I believe the question of legality when carrying a concealed weapon is an all different matter. The reason you cannot make ilegal is that some people (read NRA loonies) keep trying…

If it's really that way then you wouldn't oppose that much for a part of it to be taken away from you. After all, it doesn't have "any real value".

What people earn depend on the society they live in, it's not morally acceptable and as such shouldn't it also be legally acceptable to keep it all to yourself when you rely on wha…

Yes, there the words of Thomas Jefferson put it quite explicitly: You have the right to have arms within your own house in order to potentially use it in a rebellion against an aut…

Since when the right for self defence calls for the use of fire guns? Basically every society preserved the right to self defence from the time humans first started to gather until…