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Anyone know the name of that sax melody?

Yea... that's was my sentiment as well. Build a React Native app from scratch and observe your tune changing.

"Why Net Neutrality Regulation is the Path to Ending Net Neutrality" http://hustlebear.com/2011/01/05/why-net-neutrality-regulati... Article is from 2011, but still pertinent.

The FDA’s letter to 23andMe calls “particularly concerning” the information the tests would provide about the gene linked to breast cancer (BRCA) “because of the potential health c…

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Identifying yourself by your skin color means you perceive the color of your skin to imply something about you. Anyone who asserts that the color of an individual's skin implies so…

No one cares what color or age you are raganwald. That's the entire point. If you identify yourself by your skin color, then you are in fact racist.

"Nobody mentions that an economy has a hypothetical failure mode (like the game of Monopoly) where all of the money ends up in one person's hands -- and then trading stops." Stunni…

Or, they could do something towards actually solving the state budget problems and just fire themselves.

Another terrible idea from a state bankrupt from terrible ideas.

"if a town wants to pool their money and pay to build out infrastructure that should be legal" If people want to pool their own money together, they can. The only thing this bill p…

Profit is a form of value. Big surprise that people are deriving value in different ways. Anyone that uses PirateBay without deriving some sort of value is either irrational or has…

Rand's theory of concepts is the explicit cognitive framework of induction and abstraction - both vital to comp sci endeavors. To overlook her work is a tremendous oversight, a det…

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You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever. In reality, about $2 out of the $10 is actually spent for the those purposes. $6 o…

A lack of objective rule of law defending property rights.

It codifies a new premise of society: If you do not labor to maintain your own existence or your offspring's existence, another individual will be force to -- creating a queue of n…

Long term result: A net increase in the quantity of individuals demanding the new basic "right", ultimately making the problem worse.

You might demonstrate how arrogant you are by voicing that assertion as if everyone here is as elitist as you.