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If the new media is an inevitable byproduct of the digital era simply existing, which is how things look to me, it still makes sense to follow things back to the root cause. How ma…

One reason people refuse vaccination is that they are worried the vaccines are secretly an attempt to sterilize undesirable segments of the population. For example, see what happen…

It surprised me too, and it's unclear what their basis is for saying this. This WHO page [1] on measles statistics claims a 60% increase for the Americas. Maybe the BBC interpreted…

Abolishing patents is radical enough to begin with, so why stop there? If everyone had UBI and free healthcare to cover the material costs of living, is it really so implausible th…

Because businesses donate more money to politicians than you do.

If everyone just buys tanks, eventually they'll have no choice but to change the regulations.

The most famous example is the DES S-boxes, where the NSA made a change that nobody else understood - until years later, when it was discovered that they had made the algorithm mor…

>blindly support the actions of whichever leader bears your label No, rather than being the worst, that avoids saying pretty much anything of substance about the political world at…

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

And what of it? The internet and cheap worldwide shipping/travel have made it easy to work around a lot of laws whose jurisdiction is limited by geography. A system where you can u…

Nice theory, but you don't want to marry someone who doesn't behave like a 10 year old, you want to marry the person you love.

If you are seriously worried about that, it's a huge sign you're not committed. Tiny resale value is preferable here.

It's better if everyone in society can agree on the same signal to use. Otherwise it's too hard to verify.

Yeah, if you're lucky enough to never have to teach, pass quals, take classes of your own, etc. In reality, research takes up less than 30% of your average day.