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Being nit-picky, there's no such thing as a Nobel Prize for economics.

> No politician could possibly admit it, but geopolitically, temperate climate countries are going to be net beneficiaries and will need to protect themselves from tropical and sub…

> Wait I thought outlier weather events like blizzards and heat waves weren't indicators of global climate as the media so likes to lecture about when it's not in favor of their na…

> In my experience, SMBs don't hire expensive software engineers. I've definitely seen that at the 'S' end of the scale. Programmers who have been there for years, often with no fo…

It's weird that urgent care clinics aren't parked right next to the ER and that the urgent care clinics aren't 24x7. No doubt this occurs sometimes but I've never seen it. Anecdata…

>Developers who are entrenched enjoy the fact it is hard to get a permit. Imagine how much a developer with Coastal Commission expertise could charge. That's probably a specialty i…

>Copyright doesn't just benefit huge corporations. For instance, without it, independent artists who rely on copying for distribution (authors, musicians, etc.) would find it much …

Personally, I think that voting is ridiculous, but I see the point. It's one of the strongest methodologies for making a discussion board addictive. I think an interesting feature …

The amount of gray posts in censorship threads always cracks me up. Please go on.

It could be that part of the problem is that you only see their public persona. Start adding all the weasel words to imply that you think that something is 73% likely to be mostly …

> Antitrust is pretty much dead from what I can tell It has just been defined to mean 'thing that harms consumer prices'.

I don't doubt that part of the pronunciation problem is the deeper meanings that creep in. 'CAESAR' sounds positively German and Legio VI Victrix has an effeminate sound. I'm afrai…

I like the idea of building massive apartment complexes in the Bay Area. It was a PITA place to live 30 years ago and it's worse now The thing is, if we can build giant ant mounds …

> How many times do people need to be burned by closed-source, cloud boxes before they learn to stop buying them? Probably when their thermostat turns off during a heatwave.

Downvoted and I still don't know what the '+' is. Some sort of gender or kink letter? Code for a cyborg? Programming language?

Maybe we don't need contraception, we just need predators.

Offhand I'd say that you are doubling the plumbing system plus you are using a much more corrosive fluid. It would be an interesting experiment, since toilets use a great deal of w…

In that case, the value of a thing is not it's physical reality but it's provenance. I guess it's no different than the high value given to a lot of 20th C. art, it's just another …

When I had to deal with some small tendril of IBM, I think the anti-trust suit was still in the works. It probably scarred their dealings with other companies to the same degree th…

It seems to me that any system predicated on population levels over the pre-industrial standard are a sketchy proposition. Even at the pre-industrial level, the environmental load …