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It’s not a technology limitation, it’s a “get people to agree to do it in a transparent way” limitation which crypto doesn’t address.

It’s arguably more harmful to give a poor person $120K in debt to study something that almost certainly returns little, especially as those same people (statistically) may not know…

Strongly disagree. Whether you give me capital at a 1% interest rate of a 50% interest rate; whether you buy 1% of my company for $1,000 or 1% of my company for $100,000,000; are i…

I think we're roughly in agreement. Businesses are composed of the capital providers, the organizers (who decide how to deploy the capital), and the workers. Capital providers coll…

Businesses create value. That's not universal -- there's regulatory capture, monopolies, tragedy of the commons, etc. -- but it is fundamentally why capitalist economies have raise…

Yes, perhaps all those scientists are idiots and you're the only smart person, even though you're too lazy to Google it before making a snarky comment.

Hi! I used Wanderlog to plan a recent month-long group trip, which was definitely the most complex vacation I've had to plan. For context I am very active when traveling (e.g. mult…

Ah, for what it’s worth I looked for a while and didn’t see the download icon until you told me it was there, and I consider myself pretty good at picking up new user interfaces re…

This is neat! Who's the target user? For this to be usable to me (level of knowledge: I can do all of what's done on this page in Python / R, but don't have a PhD in stats or anyth…

I am not aware of any data that colleges--liberal arts or otherwise--teach much in terms of critical thinking. Rather their value seems to derive primarily from their ability to se…

CEOs are generally not going to take on any risk to the company -- especially one that exists in a highly regulated segment of the market -- for the purpose of an interesting inter…

Unfortunately, there's many corporate environments where technical staff are managed by non-technical staff. This comment isn't debating the merits of that, but when the manager (o…

Agree 100%. Many riots / burning of buildings / lootings were allowed while media spurred them on and called them peaceful protests. Police in many cities gave up on enforcement. I…

Like most readers of this forum, I advocate supplying free drugs and free housing in some of the most expensive real-estate in the world, no strings attached, to people suffering m…

When you consider incentives, you have to think about more than just what one average person would do. There are 300M Americans. If 999/1,000 people say "hey, free housing is great…

If you take the premise that there is a set amount of wealth, and that it changes hands from one person to another, then that is fair. However that's a false premise. The act of la…

For society, the NYT is a cesspool.

I'm not sure that's counter evidence (i.e. it doesn't lend proof to the OP's position either, it just decreases the certainty of both positions). The only source I could find with …

I think (5) is the weakest point, and also the major reason for getting an MBA. With respect to the other points: (1) Most '20 year old aspiring tech founders' can hardly be though…

There's some conclusions that I disagree with here assuming the same starting facts. Also, I think calling things "racist" or "segregated" usually ends critical thinking because th…

There are numerous sources in this thread that show that the Asian group, highly selected for here, are predominantly poor. Just parroting a talking point without looking at the da…

If I were writing a movie script, and said this was in reaction to a disease that had a 0.2% mortality rate (or 0.02% after vaccination), everyone who read it would laugh at the ri…

Tigers are real. Lions are real. The fact that Ligers exist doesn’t mean they’re not two different populations. The point is that just because two categories can mix doesn’t automa…

There’s a difference between “appeals to their masculine tendencies”, which suggests they’re baseline masculine and owning a gun matches it; versus “makes them feel masculine”, whi…

Blue is a color. Yellow is a color. The fact that green exists doesn’t mean those colors aren't real.