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What worked best in my experience is having a roundtable discussion between all the interviewers about their experience, and any concerns or objections they have. i.e. soft veto. T…

While it's more about the flaws in how scientific consensus are used with respect to areas that are (or should be) debatable, the video does a good job of introducing some of the p…

Reason TV did an interesting video recently looking at several angles of homelessness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZhmUfDePE There are a lot of things you can take from it, b…

Those are usually straw bales from what I've seen.

Most small businesses require the owner to take significant financial risk, or work for free for years or more. Each growth stage presents tough choices of additional risk, as well…

Limits on property ownership are a very different topic than taxation or crime. They are treated fundamentally different in law, economics, and philosophy.

You need a large amount of capital for it to do enough good for others (e.g. via investments into companies) that the returns you receive are enough to live on.

Most wealth already is in the economy, providing capital to companies and jobs to their growing workforces. It's not sitting around collecting dust.

Any time the first line of a project description reads "This is NewTool, written in " it's an immediate red flag that makes it hard for me to continue reading. Obviously it doesn't…

> Sure for some things, like elective surgeries (lasik for example) or routine dental care, people can shop around, and prices will reach a sane level. But the majority of healthca…

I've been using v2 for years, and unless 3 changed significantly, the syntax is truly minimal. More importantly it only is introduced where it makes sense, ie not forced. It's also…