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I think that the main takeaway and I think Thiel's explanation has the most explanatory power (Tech Stag Hypothesis).

It just doesn't ring true. Both slavery and imperialism have had a long history before capitalism. Capitalism exists in circumstances with no plausible relationship to slavery or i…

> ny large political system eventually turns out to be either authoritarian or ineffective Your thoughts on seasteading, even as a hypothetical?

There is something in what you say. I have to say I think this conflation of altright and neonazi is lazy in the extreme. By the media and most posters here. Democratic socialism h…

There is some light but it's from obscure political ideologies. Nakamoto's Bitcoin, Yarvin's Urbit, Friedman's Seasteading.* These seem concerned with the technical debt we have, u…

Yes, but can you build the Sears house for 35k today without materials substitutions. I don't think you can, prices of commodities were probably lower then, which is not in line wi…

The solution I have found is crowd sourced or expert recommendations from the following sources: Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools book and website. Metafilter Reddit's Buy It For Life subr…

I don't know, it might be much easier. I myself went on one, found it helped concentration, but neglected to keep up a daily practice since.

Personally I've always felt the existence of the garage to be an underrated contribution to American innovation. I don't mean Americans aren't aware of it, I mean that sort of thin…

Sorry about the edit, I thought I was waffling on too long. My position is not that you're wrong, it's that most of us are missing the subtext of our technological development whic…

I see that view as a form of revisionism. Was it ethnic based nationalism, or was it ethnic based nationalism and political ideology and perverse financial incentives and class war…

Wages really do buy less house than 100 years ago. This would have been about 1920 when the Sears kit houses were invented. Look at this: http://eastsidehill.com/news/wp-content/up…

Listening to the shipping forecast is a kind of modern day ritual, I get something similar out of ASMR videos such as this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6ZktAF_hk

It's not only what is said, but the timbre of the voice, repetitions and odd names, all these are hallmarks (some types) of the ASMR phenomenon Youtube.

> Milo Yiannopoulos advocates for practices that would literally kill people, in addition to advocating for pedophilia and getting very close to Nazi talking points. You should be …

I had no idea Yetis were into Communism! :-) Thanks for this, it makes entertaining reading on a cold winter's day in front of a roaring fire.

You may be interested in the podcast audio drama "The White Vault". It's very well produced.

Sure. Why don't I hear more about Americans doing medical tourism then? Is there some kind of information asymmetry, because it sounds to me as if there ought to be a lot of money …

That is so, I think probably taxation as a measure of GDP is too dubious a measure for connecting up with a normal person's experience of taxation, in the ideal world they should b…

> Why is it perfectly fine to give platforms to people spouting Nazi talking points, or transphobia/homophobia/racism, but the minorities those people are saying should be killed a…

This is the thing, the laws in the USA and UK already have provisions for death threats, so when you have to fall back on hate speech or hate crime it is not clear at all that 'hat…

Are you sure Tax Policy Center can be trusted? Those numbers seem very low for Ireland. I'm willing to be wrong but something seems very off here.

If Americans were as physically fit as they were 50 years ago, would healthcare still be expensive?

The washlet and machine learning. These bidet/shower toilets are great attachments to existing toilets in America/Europe. The Japanese and Koreans have most of them. The focus that…

Yes, Twitter is censoring him.