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There's a big missing point in this argument: it says "better" or "worse", "it works" or "it doesn't work", but does not specify how this is tested. If we test students with standa…

> There’s an entire generation of mostly childless adults who are shocked to find they enjoy contributing to others’ happiness. This is very well put. I think the culture today is …

I think this is an oversimplification of a much more general social phenomenon. In much of the world, the mainstream social message is still that kids are what you should get your …

I've quit my career in academia three years ago and teach high school kids instead. I can totally relate, I'm just so much happier: I love those four things he listed, except the f…

I recommend trying Antarctica! It's tiny compared to the Pacific. I didn't expect it to fit into the Indian ocean.

No, for me knowing certain mind-blowing scientific facts is, personally, as cool as listening to Beethoven.

Writing the address on the envelope was awkward, as I haven’t used a pen in several years; Really??

It depends on what you mean by "preference". If you show me a pic of a hot guy and the picture that a friend took while hiking, I'll probably look at the hot guy for longer, so one…

Instagram actually used to be quite nice when it was pics of friends. Now I find it scary .

What's the practical benefit of Beethoven?

It depends what you mean by "civilization building". I think we gloss over that a bit too much. We're not the largest population, not the largest total mass, not the only one that …

Not the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally confirmed, and that is …

Same here.

St Kitts and Nevis is notorious for giving out citizenships to those who can afford to 'invest'

I would say the _majority_ of people would not reach that speed on a bike in normal situations

> Crowdstrike is finished Boeing is still there... we'll see

Small government => big corporations (claim of the previous comment) is not the same thing as Big corporations => small goverment (the argument you're trying to disprove)

This makes a point against the "CEO morning routine" kind of approach, but from my point of view, it is not that different from that perspective on life. It still talks about "proa…

At some point I had a post-it that said "happily unsatisfied" next to my desk. My bf had told me to think of making the changes I needed, with a timespan of five years, not "asap".…

The amount of cabin luggage we bring is too much anyway. You can impose small bags only, the rest in the hold.

If the problem was balance, why were tricycles not widespread, then? There must have been other factors.

I remember an app that was a calculator where you could pen-in your calculations, so it was called Ink-ulator. They later changed the name profusely apologizing to Italian users.

I'm neither a pilot nor even a player of flight simulators, however I have a deep geeky fascination for ATC and radio communication. I would have liked to get into vatsim, but the …

Or maybe it simply means that it's a service offered by another company