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People who tend to be interested in philosophy and are theists probably tend to go into religion rather than philosophy.

It appears that you have committed the fallacy of composition here. The claim that Jobs and Stallaman have some similar characteristics is not the same as saying that they are the …

But, if, for each class of worker, there is income equalization, you will find that large companies tend to have an equalizing affect rather than an unequalizing affect. In this ex…

I think the argument is that technology is great for the people who use technology. If every programmer and engineer got paid $500,000/yr, that would be great...for ever programmer…

Believing that someone shouldn't receive direct help from the government isn't the same thing as believing that they shouldn't receive help. This is a false dilemma. As, perhaps, a…

If the rich didn't actually pay the percentage in taxes as given by their tax bracket, then their tax bracket isn't relevant because it isn't something that was actually followed i…

It is good to take care not to create a false dilemma. Of course the government is not the only actor that can, or should, address moral problems. As I understand libertarianism, t…

Indeed. I don't recall the exact numbers, though I've heard both Linux and RoR numbers, I think that Linux has factors more developers committing to it than RoR. Linux is, perhaps,…

It definitely does, Linux is used by far more people than Ruby on Rails is.

Making a general statement about American culture, which I did, doesn't, necessarily, say anything about the details of the culture. As you suggest, and as I've also generally obse…

I have never read, heard or observed that any race is, intrinsically, intellectually superior to another. Give this, your comment isn't interesting. Now, I have read, heard and obs…

Here's the link to the study mentioned in this article http://www.ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Standing-on-t...