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I'm too lazy to look up the ref, but someone told me that the preference for average faces was actually an artifact of the averaging process. It turns out that averaging images of …

Essential question: send and receive telephone calls play music with headphones and podcasts nice maps with gps basic internet I have never owned a smartphone before, I like the ma…

This review is pretty fluffy, what is the best android phone right now?

I actually kind of like it - true "ugliness" can just as elusive as beauty or elegance. See this interesting book - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Finnerty-t.ht...

Are you really sure about this? It sounds equally plausible to me that not knowing both the source and target languages would give one an advantage of not relying on ad-hoc, hard-t…

if I was in that situation I would have likely just melted the gold and poured it into a hallowed out brick or something..

Well the deactivation page did automatically say that the users "friends" would "miss" them. Did they actually check with these users to see if they would want their image and iden…

"my definition of a terrorist is somebody who uses stealth to deliberately target civilians in an effort to affect political change." Shouldn't the definition of terrorism include …

Yes but isn't the possibility that your communications will be disclosed to the public by an anonymous insider already a part of this game? I don't see the naivety or idealism here…

why not take the simpler explanation that the reason families have broken up is that they actually weren't that happy? Also why doesn't having multiple people in a family earning a…

This confuses me. If it is impossible to time the market, then why does he think it is "pretty clear that the market is getting overheated"? [edit: in the comments he explains that…

Read "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age" by Larry Bartels. He gives some evidence of the harmful political effects of income inequality. I don't know w…

The logic is simple: Money buys political influence. Income inequality thus leads to political inequality. The government is corrupted to serve the interests of the superrich. Soun…

Just a guess, The city I live in, Berlin has an area of ~821 km^2 Let's suppose that one city block is about 0.2 km x 0.2 km This implies that there are on the order of 10 km of ro…

I think so. At any one point in time, at the frontier of human knowledge, there are many research proposals floating around for what direction we should next expand the frontier. S…

Another issue: perhaps the increase in happiness with income (I) reported for I It was always puzzling to me as a child that the people doing the hardest work are paid the least mo…

I don't understand what you are saying. Who is marginalizing the ambitions of others? Why is it easy? I take it you think that the study is invalid because you called it "crap" and…