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It's a juvenile article Dan. Your censure is unjust in my opinion.

This article kind of reminds me of when a report was due in 7'th grade and I didn't really want to do it. I'd just look up a bunch of stuff and reword it and jam it all together wi…

Who wants to drink a beer that had a ball in it that had been rolling around on the floor? Beer pong is just dumb all the way around even as a freshman in college.

I did notice the org has raised $650K from a variety of sources. It might be interesting to see the ideological bent of the source of that funding. But I'm guessing it probably isn…

Each potential voter decides if they are informed enough. Or at least interested enough. And the two probably go together.

Much of the time the smartest people don't actually do the best. High IQ isn't a guarantee of high achievement.

And _that_ is the real value of media. Advertising always was a side business.

If you trace the root cause of why people are in prison I bet in most cases poverty is a large part. When will we stop and realize keeping people indefinitely in poverty only makes…

If indeed it's gone one year to the day later.

That probably depends on who you ask.

The point is we already live in that dystopian future. But it isn't machines running things. It's people fighting over scraps. I firmly believe the machines will do better.

So if we don't widen roads because people might have to move then we get more accidents. Or the city can't grow. Or people sit in traffic for extra hours a day. People's needs need…

Maybe not all governance is possible by algorithm but much of it is. For instance, where do we widen a road? Absolutely an algorithmic problem. But I suspect sometimes these types …

Nope. No exaggeration. I've known probably 30+ farmers in 4 or 5 states (and even worked for a few) and many have attitudes exactly as I state It's not that they were bad people or…

Partially agree. I do happen to think the cartoon raises a very valid point. But... having known a lot of farmers they are indeed usually quite well off. And many of them are not a…

The prevention to this type of problem is probably the same measure needed to fix many forestry problems. Regular fires. But now we have homes right up to the forest and no one wan…

It stands to reason. Centralized bureaucracy is centralized bureaucracy. What was it said about the Soviet Union? That they pretended to pay people and the people pretended to work…

No, central economic planning has traditionally been viewed as disastrous. Doesn't mean it "is" or "always will always be". In fact, you undoubtedly live to some extent under the a…

The Ruger 10/22 has been in production a long time. I have one that was a gift for my 12'th birthday. I'm 45.

Some of the most useful things I've written have been the simplest. In fact, I'd say there is a pretty strong correlation between simplicity and usefulness (for some reason). You d…

That's pretty funny.