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fair enough. I'm probably still in disagreement with the friends I mentioned earlier!

I woulda thought they learned from their great great granddaddies warning them about the tulip bubble!

Your concluding example doesn't make sense to me but I think that it's because we have different definitions for what friction means here. It's also kind of hard to define in conte…

I disagree with this, and I've been spending time thinking about it because some of my friends had a similar conversation. The friction itself does not add value. The time spent th…

I wonder how much teflon wears off the die into the spaghetti on pasta extrusion machines.

Reminds me of 'I don't think a computer will ever beat a human at chess'.

So if you buy a lawnmower and use it for your business to cut your neighbor's grass (instead of tearing it apart by hand), that should be illegal? You've used a capital investment …

Robots (and other tools) are capital. A way I think of it: if you formed a co-op of sorts, with let's say 20 people, starting with no land ownership and hardly any tools, they coul…

History has shown that having a multitude of roughly-equal competing powers results in more per-capita death from war than when there is 1 or two dominant nations. The 1800's and e…

>But nowadays, most loans are for zero-sum ventures... That's an enormous claim and I really doubt it.

Look at GDP growth in the US vs EU over the last 10 years or so if you want to talk about innovation. Europe has been stagnating economically and real productivity growth is critic…

The replication crisis in science is particularly bad within the social sciences, and also particularly bad within sociology. When experts within a field are unable to converge on …

Maybe they've got a big ol warning sticker. or maybe not. Automative maintenance is generally dangerous anyway.

I've had the same thought and it's been a topic I've been this close to talking about at parties. If I did I'm sure I'd bore everyone to death. Considering the difficulty of sustai…

The argument that letting people invest their own money leads to a distortion of asset markets is the most amusing thing I've read today.

Whean and soybeans are often grown on the same land. Your 1st and 5th sentences seem to contradict eachother, I might not be understanding.

Yes I did mean litigation (didn't know that that term was a distinction learned something today). To my understanding the case outcome is pretty much what I would expect, even cons…

With regards to defamation law, the first amendment does result in the USA having a higher bar for prosecution than most countries- GP still has a valid question.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10641525/ The moralizing parts of the conclusion of this article rejects it's own evidence. There are multiple studies cited by the article…

There is considerable evidence that trans girls and women have a competitive advantage over women in many sports.

The massive amount of production-oriented research in solid state and semi solid state batteries indicates to me that this stuff is coming soon in a big way. I've been curious abou…

90%+ chance the person you are replying to has health insurance that will cover them in case of medical disaster.

The tata nano is an example of a low-featured car that sold in India for the equivalent of $2500 in 2008 dollars. You can make a car for pretty cheap if you strip down a lot of the…