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I didn't know the title was difficult to decipher, but the reason for it sounding unnatural is that title lengths are limited on HN. But thanks for all the suggestions.

I feel quite overwhelmed by the tools out there, and I want to improve my idea of the landscape and possible paths to take. I am a teacher, but I previously worked in finance and k…

He said without engineering everything. The way your comment is written it is technically a straw man fallacy.

It would not be the highest priced item on all pizzas, but by volume * price this appears to be true.

>then the government loses tax revenue. Actually, this would not always be true. Yes, in many cases would, but it would depend on the elasticity of supply and demand. The total siz…

>If students have to generate their own power, they are much less likely to waste it. How far would students go to reduce their efforts? Would hot showers go out of fashion? The ar…

I've travelled to many countries and the US is the only country I've been to where citizens have a legitimate and real fear of their government using force against them for somethi…

>I'm sure you can find someone to deny the genocide of Native Americans It has never been officially recognized by the US government. It's not "simply a false statement," it's a fa…

This comes across as unreasonable to me. Of course I am not trolling. I am responding directly to the comment above me, and I'm not aware of why you would say something so accusato…

Hi, I can't respond to your comment below. I just want you to know it's not correct. I also learned of the Trail of Tears, but the US Government paid per head for killing Native Am…

I'm also aware of Pol Pot, but to be honest, I have to admit I don't really know a lot about his rise to power and the genocide of ethnic groups in Cambodia. I would bet money most…

Feynman was a particularly interesting, intelligent, but also a very moral person. He said in an interview in his older years, while tearing up: 'I know the difference between righ…

OK I can see now this is going down a dark road to that line of thinking and that was not my intention. This is a very controversial topic* and I wasn't aware of this. I didn't mea…

OK, well I don't claim to be an authority on this subject. It just really appears to look like two methods that reached the same result; though one sounds more unnatural than the o…

>Is it possible you are just not well versed on the subject? Well I took required history classes in high school and university and scored well enough in those courses. This is wha…

>You can't compare the number of dead and conclude anything meaningful from that alone. Of course you can. The number of innocent people murdered is a very meaningful number. I nev…

>Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews Wow. Why is the holocaust taught with such a focus on one ethnic group of victims? I thought Jews were th…

To be fair, there are more people worried about how they can afford healthcare and home ownership than worried about increasing the number of millionaires and wealthy corporations …

You're being downvoted, but dissenting opinions should be allowed, even when it comes to climate change. There is a reasonable argument to be made that climate change alarmism is n…

>If you are someone who wants more wind power to be produced, you want it to be cheap. You should be rooting for cheaper wind prices, which come with increased efficiency (includin…

>We have been transported back to the early 20th century >Brandeis wanted to eliminate monopolies, because (in the words of his biographer Melvin Urofsky) “in a democratic society …

>better than 50% This wording reminds me of that which Obama also used with respect to gender in STEM & education: >In fact, more women as a whole now graduate from college than me…

Yes, and you're not even mentioning any of the particularly comically-sad, egregious examples, such as last year police using a military helicopter to seize a marijuana plant from …

>the guy "fell into" a shot intended for the torso. I really don't know how they said that with a straight face. Oh this sort of thing happens all the time. Haven't you seen the do…

Police brutalize and bloody a man in process of ejecting him from plane: outcome > corporation to blame Police shoot, mutilate and nearly kill man sleeping at home during hoax: out…