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> As far as SS goes, I'd be happy to see it fail I wouldn't. If SS fails, there will be riots, if not armed uprisings in the streets.

>> Nobody can assess the entire game tree, so the fact that it is theoretically knowable isn't actually relevant in a game. That's not the point though. The point is that you only …

It's not that there is unburnt fuel in your exhaust - unburnt fuel, while a pollutant, is not the problem. The issue is that higher temperature combustion, while more efficient, pr…

Yes, and think how unfair it is to students at universities in other countries that they don't get .edu addresses. Why should the US have this monopoly?

It's kind of a tricky legal situation. If they're European citizens, can you really stop them from coming back from Syria? What if they claim they didn't do anything illegal there?…

Germany also has very generous vacation, 12 months of paternity/maternity leave, etc... and their economy is doing just fine. I guarantee if you asked Americans if they would trade…

This is obviously not true for the majority of jobs. You can't work harder to make up for your vacation when the job requires your presence (eg waiter, policeman, etc...). Even for…

That's just ridiculous. Inner city kids don't lack the proper incentives to succeed (they're poor, after all), they lack the resources needed to succeed.

> Since REM is the part of the cycle where your body rests the most, I feel that if I fall into the cycle sooner rather than later, I can safely shave a few hours off my sleeping t…

If you accept that computation is universal, then yes, you could definitely achieve human-like understanding through means that are completely different from the actual human wet-w…