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This appears to be from 2014. Prior to 2014, using GMO seeds "required" farmers to plant an in-field refuge of non-resistant crops. Since farmers could, short term, get better yiel…

REITs are traded on the market, (pretty much) just like a stock. So you don't have to worry about liquidity being too much of a problem. One example of a REIT is [1]. However, if y…

There's a lot of space between the conflict of interest that arises when you lobby congress for a change that would help the company you are the CEO of while your father is a senat…

Examples of some obvious things that really shouldn't be too controversial: Showing pictures of a massacre Showing pictures or video from a war Reading a graphic account of a soldi…

Set up a distribution center on I90 30 miles outside Chicago (e.g. Gary Indiana) set up a distribution center on I80 30 miles outside New York (e.g. Paterson NJ). Use human drivers…

More good examples of variance in the artistic style and implied meaning are the various non-people emojis. In general, google has "cuter", "friendlier", and more anthropomorphized…

Because voter impersonation (which is the only thing voter id laws catch) is incredibly rare. [1] [1] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/st...

I think the video and website are pretty obviously parody. But, if you are having a hard time discerning it as parody, don't you think that's the NRA's fault?

Poverty in parents is highly predictive of poverty in children. Single motherhood is also correlated with poverty. It's possible that single motherhood increases the chance that a …

> Consider African Americans: 73% of kids born to single mothers Why the value judgement on single mothers? Also, the 73% is out of wedlock, not necessarily single mothers. Single …

If only home ownership weren't correlated with generational wealth. Then we'd have a meritocracy, and you could dismiss people renting as bad decision makers. In the real world, pe…

> Any policy that would cause people to be forced from their homes just because should be viewed as a failure. I have a really really hard time feeling bad for people who bought ho…

> Maybe these landlords have historically had issues with [black people] and prefer not to rent to them. Yeah... that's called racism: the belief that all members of a race possess…

Except that consumption based taxes encourage wealth hoarding, and are extremely regressive for families that spend most or all of their income. A better format would be a "average…

If any part of the site is meant to assassinate my character, I could sue you for defamation in the necessary jurisdiction. Alternatively, I could work to improve the SEO scores of…

I'll copy-paste my reply to every comment you make, since you seem to really like making this non argument. Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long…

I'll copy-paste my reply to every comment you make, since you seem to really like making this non argument. Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long…

Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long as they are a US corporation, they are bound by US laws and rulings handed down by US courts. Furthermore, …

While I understand what you are getting at here, basically, this is still just a complete information game, and didn't solve AI. You are drastically understating the complexity of …

Except that we are talking about why women on average don't make as much during their careers. You are punting and saying, well men have pressure to work more. You are absolutely r…

Tram lines are expensive, and require that the city (population, economic, and social centers) remain largely static. If you predict wrong, you can end up spending millions on a tr…

Which actually says.... Women aren't paid less because they take jobs for less money, women are paid less because men are promoted more, men dictate the location of families more, …

So, I'll admit that I don't understand the details of how vanguard is paying employees or the external people that actually manage the money, but presumably, they pay a fixed fee t…

I'm not sure if this is a valid comparison, but imagine that a group of doctors got together and founded a hospital, and decided that they would run the hospital as a co-op, where …

Lets, be honest, it's not like academics is the only place this happens. CS labs are essentially small companies (1 CEO, 2-3 senior members, and 5-10 junior members). The only diff…