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Hogwash! Cultural enrichment has no downsides, ever! We just aren't diversifying hard enough, comrade.

I've had the complete opposite experience. I've tried almost every food delivery app, and what I've found is that Uber Eats is the most reliable, longest open at night and best val…

A trend I've noticed from lurking and browsing these comments: commenters who have experience taking risk and operating under existential conditions in stressful, budget constraine…

You fundamentally misunderstand PoS. There is no social trust involved. It will work entirely through economic incentivization, including 'group penalization' when enough validator…

There's no way they raised $660M. Even $66M would be pushing it. I hope TechCrunch edits this article with a more accurate number. Filecoin and Tezos both raised about $200M and we…

You're right. Some studies have found it as high as 85%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I don't see the word 'IQ' mentioned anywhere in that article. And yet, it's the single biggest determinant of lifetime success. Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so enviro…

This is in response to the 'medium of exchange' problem, which posits that if your token doesn't have a sink built into it, it will slowly lose value over time. See this post: http…

In my experience, it's counterproductive to code more than 4-5 hours per day. At a certain point you start introducing bugs/inadvertent complexity whose negatives outweigh any feat…

I'm a big fan of Peter Thiel, and of anyone who's a divergent thinker and has well thought out opinions that run contrary to mainstream ideology (e.g., Noam Chomsky). If YC ended i…

Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compens…

Luddite lite. Tech is one of the only sources of growth in our stagnating economy and is responsible for humanity moving past a subsistence standard of living, but leave it to a we…

This article's dumb. 8 men control half the world's wealth? All of a sudden the word 'bodega' is racist? Too many white men contributing value is 'problematic'? Articles like this …

It's actually spelled 'raycis.' And the reason why Kaepernick's kneeling is silly is that black-on-black crime is orders of magnitude more of a problem for the black community than…

Ethereum's moving to PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) Proof of Stake. See this FAQ for more details, it has the most up to date details on Ethereum's PoS progress: https:/…

Also see: http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/19/congress-considering-valid... I've been expecting digital currencies to be co-opted (or at least, try to be co-opted) by centralized aut…

Indeed. It seems as though the entire West has lost its collective mind about the importance of free speech and free expression as bedrock principles which ensure peace, stability …

Adolf Hitler: ~9 million deaths Joseph Stalin: Estimates range from 3 million - 60 million deaths. Mao Zedong: Estimates range from 49 million - 78 million deaths. All evil men. Wh…

Awesome. Thanks!

Can't read this, it's behind a paywall. Anyone got a link to the full article?

Yet another example of what I was referring to. I happen to be quite grateful for the sacrifices my ancestors (and the human race more broadly) made in building civilization, so th…

Jordan Peterson has a great take on the attitude this author (and many others like her) have about America, and the West in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc&t=1…

Here's reality: kowtowing to leftist media pressure in the name of making a company more 'sensitive and diverse' (i.e., hiring people for any reason other than their competence , s…