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>Assuming the Japanese don't have debates on bioethics. Nice.

Boy was I disappointed when this was not about Frantz Fanon.

Two big problems with just moving people into shelters: 1. Homeless shelters are horribly funded and have long waiting lists for beds. This proposal provides no additional funding.…

Worth reading about the Invisible Institute ( http://invisible.institute/ ) which is the journalistic company Jamie Kalven, the author of this article, started. They've been the dr…

I feel bad for those 340 employees. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have years of your work be exposed as (basically) a farce. I can barely stand working a week without …

I doubt she actually wrote this but to be fair all of their posts are written by "Staff Writer" except an op-ed linked by "Theranos Staff."

It's great that they're making these available, but I hope people don't use this as a substitute for actually going to the museum. Art is something best experienced in person. Whil…

I'm not ignoring new information, I'm just saying my priors are strong enough and the evidence is weak enough that this won't make me change my beliefs "too much."

I'm going to wait for more replication before I adjust my priors too much on this. It seems plausible prima facie, but I'm suspicious of their methodology. From the article (I don'…

"Yet Mr. Fraser-Jenkins has a point. Index funds don’t set prices; they only accept the prices that active investors have already set. If everyone owned index funds, he says, “no o…

It actually may, and this is something being debated in the courts. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/28/judge-first-amendment-pr...

Ah thanks, I actually hadn't seen that. Maybe in the future these predictions can be handled by some sort of betting market.

Every time I see an article like this, I wonder whether these experts have put their money where their mouths are. I'm sure there are plenty of Uber investors willing to take the o…

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I don't know whether this has been or can be studied formally, but anecdotally I think modern writing often suffers from excess verbiage. Essays sometimes go on for a long time wit…