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Only for A, B > 0, but that's good enough for probabilities (except 0, I guess)

I'm pretty sure this exact Stack Exchange post was linked on HN before.

Not just a possibility. Wachovia/Wells Fargo helped Mexican drug cartels launder money. Here's an article from back in April about it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/u…

Right. Wealth has both absolute and relative terms. The poor in American today have it better in many ways than even nobility in millennia past. But there is also a relative compon…

I logged in just so I could up-vote this.

"If Disney could produce popstars in a laboratory they would." I think The Onion has a great video bit about this exact premise. http://www.theonion.com/video/disney-lab-unveils-it…

Germany and the German-speaking world (Deutschosphere?) in general. In fact, the BBC had something on this recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386

MIT's OpenCourseWare is a fantastic project. It's been a while since I was involved with it, but I contacted them a few years ago and helped TeX up some of the notes (for Physics c…

"He said hard work was the key to the poor lifting themselves out of poverty. If you give money to the poor "they just spend it," he told me." This is a key observation from a man …

The setting just motivates the demonstration of a method, which finds use in lots of places. Education is valuable.

"[Pariser] went out of his way to “friend” people with conservative politics. When he didn’t click on their updates as often as those of his like-minded contacts, he says, the syst…