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Excellent list.

Thermal paper faxes is still very much in use. Thermal paper is also replacing dot-matrix printers in cash registers.

I don't think that publishing research as open access will affect book publishing. The reason for the existence of commercial journals was the printing costs and distribution. With…

Yeah. The way they used the photos was kinda disrespectful (IMHO). They used it as rotten would use photos (sensationalist). This paragraph irritates me: "The human brain is surpri…

> e, but why not use the Euro instead of the U.S. Dollar then? The Euro is not connected to any individual nation, Yes, but isn't there one European Central bank? That is the probl…

> you don't have to be "smart", you have to fit in. economics is a self-referential discipline. there is no real standard of truth or verity or validity of a theory and hence a lot…

This is kinda stupid. It is much safer to be cynical about strangers. Also, asking a stranger to "watch over your stuff" is unfair. You are burdening him with the responsibility of…

Do you really believe that he would "make things better"? He probably greased a lot of palms to ensure that he is not extradited to the US. He will continue greasing palms (with st…

The correct name is Nobel Memorial Prize. It is not a "bogus" prize - I can assure you that you have to be pretty smart to earn one.

> No, but people's DESIRE for gold can change quite quickly. Whether or not people's desire for gold and PGMs change or not - they will still desire products that use PGMs (e.g. ca…

Are you sure? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bernard-Madoff/45015537510

> But now I'm wondering if, from a utilitarian perspective, the world would have been better with him in jail. No - he corrupted politicians. That is how it works in most African c…

That is true. There is another problem: most companies want a person with executive experience in the specific field. There are only a few people with that experience since there a…

In most countries, if the police performs any raid on your premises all costs (e.g. fixing doors) are paid for by the state. I also doubt that the cost of doors is that high (compa…

Pretoria, South Africa

That is true. Most users (at least me) install ad-blocking software because of moving advertisements (flash/gif). Why do every site want to give you an epilepsy attack?

> If it's a "mild inconvenience", surely you won't mind paying for n instances, for non-trivial n. For all crimes there is a false search rate. A good example is a normal drug "bus…

> think that's like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. The problem is this: either something is a crime and the police enforce it or something is illegal. Just because it i…

The problem with paedophilia is that it is extremely difficult to enforce. It is not as if a 5 year old kid will walk up to a police station and file a complaint. The internet made…

TB is usually a final stage disease that people with AIDS get. It is one of the most common ones (AIDS only destroys the immunity). When you hear someone who died of AIDS or lung i…

> So I would hesitate to donate to a university rather than, say, an AIDS prevention charity. You know that most AIDS prevention charities are a giant waste of money? There is almo…

The printing of physical journals was extremely expensive. So this was the main concern. Also - this MIT is interesting (and good) but I doubt it would be applied everywhere. Will …

If you are talking about cognitive enhancement there are a few (not all are technically “stimulants”). Firstly, things rich in Omega 3 has shown to improve your memory (e.g. flaxse…

> drug, or indeed anything that improves our quality of life is addictive. There is a difference between using something (and getting used to it because it increases your quality o…

I have a few problems with this. Their attempt to block wikileaks is so that no one can see the URLs they blocked. This is a bit of nonsense - no one can argue for the websites - s…