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Surely you could provide a reference not behind a paywall?

1. Concerning your first argument (consequences of birth): Since the results of the process (birth and rearing) cannot, in a free society, be taken away from an individual and used…

The simulation studies of Bouchard & Mezard show that, regardless of initial conditions, wealth distribution ends up a Pareto distribution with a small percentage taking almost all…

> "So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay > your tax bill is to liquidate the business..." False. Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, …

"User interface woes" is my guess. I found USENET and associated newsgroups to be better than the WWW, especially for discussions of software. I once even promoted the use of inter…

We're talking about _root_ _canals_, not dental fillings! Other than the anaesthetic, the materials used in root canals are are entirely different from those used in a dental filli…

You're right, my bad! I should have said "Aristotelian mechanics" instead of "Galilean mechanics". Galileo saw his physical intuitions but, being the scientist he was, corrected th…

They miss the most obvious aspect of being gorgeous for women - men will pursue them relentlessly for sex. Probably few young girls are adequately prepared for the onslaught. I've …

Try buying a _used_ car! I've had a 1992 GM car for 18 years. It runs great, gets OK mileage and repairs are ridiculously cheap. Only downside: soon it will become a "classic car" …

Is it necessarily the anaesthesia or a hemorrhage? Have they considered removing the root canal? Sometimes removing the materials from a root canal has improved a patient's health …

Wrong on two levels: Our physical intuitions are Galilean, not classical, mechanics (that is, they are non-Newtonian). For example, our intuitions tell us that an object set in mot…

URL to actual article(PDF) in 31 OCTOBER 2014 SCIENCE: http://cs.brown.edu/people/tld/publications/archive/Marcusan...

Very easy recipe (takes about an hour, mostly waiting for milk to cool): - Buy a container of your favorite _plain_ yogurt and a gallon of milk, - Boil the milk in a pan, - Cool mi…

... and adopt and raise children, pass their SS to their spouse when they "die" (go bankrupt?), marry human "persons", marry horse, dogs, the subway train et al? They have no SS? A…

In the midst of reading this I was struck by the question "If corporations are persons, can corporations marry?"

Yes, the civil and legal ramifications are important: - my inheritance: my spouse can get my SS income when I die, my wife inherits my goods by default, etc. Now gays get the same …

The woman in the photos is wearing swim fins, which makes an enormous difference. Give a freestyle swimmer the same fins and (s)he'll blow the underwater swimmer away.

"Empathy? Empathy? We don't need no stinkin' empathy!" Uh, perhaps you meant "delegation"? No one uses the term "empathy" in reference to any OOP languages AFAICT except the author…

"The ones who were able to migrate to safer places with gold, restarted their life much more easily..." IOW "The wealthy were able to migrate to safer places and restart their live…

I was brought up with Lincoln logs then Tinker Toys. When I saw Lego blocks I thought "Those are for dumb kids" and kept on tinkering. It's an easy step up to chemical models from …

I doubt that. It is more likely that you are impatient. Recall of older experiences can be frustratingly slow. To recover old info, first concentrate on it and recall as much as po…

Sounds like the dog vaccine works in humans. How is dose adjusted (by weight, by surface area, etc.)? Anyone know the cost of the dog vaccine?

Looks like a candidate for a fecal transplant: http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd... Most facilities do it the fancy way (use a tube down the nose or up t…

I hate to be a downer but this "idea" will vanish like morning mist with the first terrorist nuke. Urban designers for densely-populated countries should plan instead for people an…