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From the perspective of the gene it makes sense - genes that are more sucesful at making offspring (aka getting copied) should be expected to prosper through natural selection.

With ever decreasing EROI though

You do here: "Take any revolutionary discovery. Compare making it freely available to anyone, or limiting the availability to those holding the patents. [...]" You take the situati…

You make two assumptions: - There are as many revolutionary discoveries with and without patents - Without patents, discoveries would be freely avalaible As far as I know, two (rel…

If your point is that it offends "no one", except "people like [the other commenter]", i.e. people that are offended, then I guess this would apply to any word about any group.

I don't get it; why would it be _more_ of a problem than with current tax & benefits systems? Politicians can already make the "increase $benefit"/"decrease $tax" their #1 policy.

Isn't "money printing" monetary policy, as opposed to fiscal policy?

"Électricité de France S.A. (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state." - from…

It would be tricky whatever the claim

A very smart man, PG himself, once said [0]: > I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before…

It's really tricky to compare marginal rates like that. Has the definition of taxable income changed over time? How many people were actually taxed at those marginal rates? And so …

> andard to be a high ranking politicians like presidents, ministers, or CEOs. In the 20 years before 2017, they used not only have studied at the same school, the ENA, but where m…

It's not _forced_, but it is common that applicants include this information.

This is pure speculation, but I would guess it was simply expected information at the time. In some countries, it is still expected or at least common to see information such as: a…

You take for granted that the Spartans were good at war, and reconcile "Spartans good at war" and "Spartans lost to other city-states" by concluding that there are "a lot of factor…

French military radio procedures also have specific pronunciations to disambiguate words. The fact that it is not used (assuming it is not) in ATC radio is not a feature of the Fre…

Is it fair to compare the very small region that is England to the very large region that is India? A fairer comparison would be Europe vs India at the time, or England vs the most…

How come the US military branches are so bad at working together?

This is either satire or the worst possible example, since the war in Afghanistan is the only time in history article 5 has been used.

This is essentially the philosophical zombie thought experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

This is what is new: > A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to…

Every country has its own myths to both give legitimacy to the government and unify the people around a national project. Sure, the US is more extreme in its focus on its foundatio…

Do spherical cows dream of mathematical potatoes?

Surely studying the climate, i.e. a physical system, is completely in the realm of physics. Certainly, it is closer to whatever definition of physics you may have, than education o…