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odd not to mention resistance heating in what otherwise seems like a thorough review of the question

couldn't this argument could be made against a lot of scientific research? i bet it took a long time for the average consumer to benefit from the discovery of the double helix stru…

> The number of Medicare funded residency slots are limited by law. why don't hospitals fund residencies themselves? from what i hear, residents are poorly paid (they make less tha…

dangit, some time ago it seemed like every week there was another ridiculous study claiming another absurd benefit from these new weight loss drugs, but this one takes the cake. th…

whoa, TIL. i knew that it made orgasms impossible when using, but i had never heard that the effects could last so long.

i think instead of asking the best way of dividing the costs, we should ask why does it cost so much. we've managed to bring down immensely the cost of technology over the past dec…

> It just is? I used to get notifications that said something like “$partner is likely to be irritable for the next 2 days”, so I could be extra careful not to piss her off. to be …

> Sharing with your partner is a big one. how is that even 10% more convenient than simply speaking? nevermind being worth giving away private data.

i agree that wisdom / an independent thinking spirit is an important factor to prevent manipulation and that it's not something easily taught. but i also believe that in fact knowl…

> if things pay off anyway, why should should tax payers fund it? i believe the idea is that when someone is educated, it's not themselves alone that benefits from it, but rather e…

another possibility to combat grifting would be to have competition. another university comes up and provides the same service as the wasteful university at a smaller cost, and thu…

i like your framing of "holes" in political systems. one way to put it is that a political system has "holes" if the ideal/desired outcome is not a Nash equilibrium. however, my un…

this is a good point. > It seems more fruitful to approach things from the perspective of monopolies, competition, corporate governance etc in general where to go to learn more abo…

i guess in that case the question would be if one should be as worried about the biological effects of PFAS as much as these two other forever chemicals you cite

for me, the moral of the story is that it's easier to promise things than to deliver them. or, engineering was the bottleneck. in my experience, this is not particular to start-ups…

i agree with you that this is a technique that is used to make people give up. not only in the context of this discussion ("how is the economy doing"), but in many discussions. i s…

the Wikipedia page on Europe you cite lists average , not median wage in Germany. the average household income for Mississipi is given as $76,305/year by this US census link: https…

we were explicitly talking about people who went to university "for the joy of learning", instead of, as was cited as one of the examples, to prepare themselves for a good career, …

good to know, thanks. it does make sense. there's still the professors though. the courses may not necessarily be different from their point of view. also, what do you make of phys…

so, essentially, you and the other commenter are arguing whether it is everyone that has a little fault for being naughty, or is it just a couple of psychos who are fucking everyon…

while i agree that this "doorman fallacy" happens, and i also agree that it can happen in the context of restaurant servers, i completely disagree that this is an example of it. pr…

so you go to university just for the joy of learning? to be clear, i think that's cool, and i might try it at some point. but how do you deal with the fact that university, in prac…

my impression is that inside these niches, people know each other personally, or are only separated by a small number of degrees. reputations form, etc. so any paper they end up re…

> I'm with you until I remember how expensive medical school plus internship is in the US. in that case you should double check your math, because it doesn't work out like that > I…