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I learned from a cop that in New York, if you pee in a public place, you are a sex offender. Basically the cop said he would give the homeless people a citation for something else …

I never understood how breaking a business contract gets punished, but breaking a marriage contract gets rewarded. The injured party becomes a slave to the injuring party. This cou…

The purpose of requiring a college degree, I have come to realize, is not to demonstrate knowledge, but rather to demonstrate submissiveness. It shows that you are decently capable…

That’s exactly why I think empirical models of consciousness fall short.

I would point out that metaphysically speaking, we have no way of knowing if we are in a simulator. For all we know, the universe could be just the matrix. However it is self evide…

People these days don’t really seem to care much if a serviceman dies. Now if the terrorists wife dies in a raid, people act like something far worse has happened. This plane will …

Run as far as you can from the atttractive ones. Good looks are a crutch. They let people slide by without ever developing character. Get an ok or ugly one. They aren’t in as high …

One problem I’ve thought of with UBI is that it may very well make everything more expensive. Since people will have more money they will not need to work as much. When people don’…

Cops get a bad rap, but the DAs haven’t come under fire. They knowingly ruin many many more innocent lives than cops. And unlike cops who may shoot in a poor split second decision,…

No they’re not. The only reason they are still there is because China wants them there. And they are being very dumb by making China angry. Secondly treating your people like dirt …

Hosthatch has a 1 TB hdd vps plan for $20. I’ve used them before and they were ok. They had a network outage but fixed it.

I have an idea. Corn farmers aren't making money, so let's subsidize corn farming to help them make money. Of course, that will lead to a worse oversupply, but hey, it's been worki…

Google “flexbox”. That is the single biggest new thing replacing floats in css. You’ll also want to make sure you understand css transitions (they are very simple).

everybody hates on Mongodb, but at least it's sql-injection proof.

Because we have the right to vote at age 18! And since politicians decide who goes to jail, who fights in wars and where bombs dropped, deciding on the right person to vote for is …

Slavery actually held the USA back. It kept the south rural, whereas the north was far wealthier without slaves because it industrialized. Furthermore, the civil war was incredibly…

No way! Vue is way better than react. Ok, it depends on personal opinion, but I think it’s s much nicer framework to work with.

Why would they pay more? First, convenience - it's right in the store, you can just buy it without having to do a shady deal where you might get killed. Second, big drug companies …

Make drugs legal. Impose a 15% tax on each sale with all money devoted to rehabbing addicts. Problem solved.

Gee if you want music and don’t want to pay for it, learn how to play the guitar. But if you think someone else is better than you and you want to listen to their music, what do yo…

After watching enough shows about lions on Netflix, I can't see how anyone wants to preserve these creatures in the wild. They are mind glowingly brutal animals, whose very existen…

This is just such a nonissue. 10mbps is fast enough for anything regular users need.

Your right to vote does a lot more for you than get you money, it can keep you alive! For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go d…

Would you elaborate on the issue? JavaScript actually does have a type system, it's just not very transparent. Using triple equals will not coerce types when comparing, whereas dou…