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Title is a bit misleading. It's a provincial bill. It's like state law vs. federal law.

How do you know this when the study was cancelled a year early (by a Conservative gov't, no less)

In a few hundred years nobody will remember you either: x220 the family man, who lived a complete life and raised wonderful children who went on to live very comfortable lives and …

Everyone is for due process until a serial killer gets their family. Everyone is for human rights until they see brigands and warlords torturing, raping, and pillaging across the c…

I would expect such a strong assertion to come with well laid out and persuasive reasoning. Maybe spoil me with relevant data (even second hand). Instead, you reject both premise a…

I disagree from a practical standpoint. Personal infamy is essentially free advertisement, up to a certain limit. As long as Elon isn't perceived as running the company into the gr…

In Accelerando, there was a similar plot device. The anisotropies in the CMB (or maybe just minor aberrations) were caused by waste heat from Type IV/V civilizations running gigant…

Because a chess engine isn't scanning 400 possibilities, and a Go engine isn't scanning 130k (where'd you even get that number?) possible game states. For example, a brute force se…

For a more solid experiment, there's the BBC prison study: http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org Different conclusions, just as fascinating.

Well said. I think it's instinctual to want to believe there is some intrinsic, insurmountable difference between us and them (people who do morally repugnant things). At the heart…

> Turn off just 1 gene for a disease, and 1). it won’t do anything because you didn’t turn off the other 199, and 2). oh wow that gene was actually used for something else and now …

> Even more interesting... 1+2+3+4... = -1/12 What.. No. This sum diverges. It does not equal -1/12. Now if you plug -1 into the Riemann zeta function, you get -1/12. One could int…