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Intelligence and logical thinking are not naturally correlated; people have to be trained to reason clearly and deliberately (how to think not what to think).

Does anyone know if Reddit targets ads based on the content of the sub-reddit in which the ad appears? That seems to make the most sense to me. Some advertisers will pay good money…

Trademark dilution is illegal under the Lanham Act and the The Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995. ( http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/dilution.html )

Request policy also defeats Cross site request forgery

I run a locked down browser with lots of privacy and security extensions for my personal use then sandbox a unmodified chrome instance for viewing ads on unfiltered pages for work …

Counterstrike fines you when you kill hostages.

The bid is not the only thing that determines ad placement, Google has a quality algorithm that prioritizes better quality ads. Consequently it's possible for an ad with a lower bi…

What a lot of peakist don't understand is that the most important attribute of hydrocarbons is energy density not energy efficiency . If we expend more energy extracting hydrocarbo…

Article One, Section Six of the constitution protects legislators from prosecution for what they say on the floor of the houses except for sanction by the legislature itself. >and …

No you tax productive activity to pay farmers to grow food (see SNAP/food stamp program).

You are glossing over the other point that reducing the transaction cost increases market participation and velocity in those goods which are advertised in classifieds. Craigslist …

Two questions: Why do you think there are so many poor people in Mexico, where do narco-terrorists get money to buy weapons? NAFTA is passed > government subsidized US corn exports…

It's valid to argue that systems which allocate resources based on political processes rather than market processes ARE in fact less efficient, with the caveat that government inte…

Seems like we just need constitutional amendments making it illegal to sell any public property below fair market value (as determined by an independent appraiser).

And yet youtube's DMCA compliance policy provides for more granular and specific information about the content in question and allows for easy to use counter-claim procedures for f…

Type setting is trivial with LaTeX, the only real value publishers add is supply chain/distribution for physical media, editors, and promotion. The only part of that an online auth…

This phenomenon can be observed in California as well due to Proposition 13 and property tax assessment: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/California_Pr...

How much do the punitive debt repayment, personal liability and bankruptcy laws cause a chilling effect on entrepreneurship in your country? The common wisdom is that America has m…

The typical Price-Earnings ratio for a tech company is about 20, which means twitter would only need to generate 1/20th of that amount per user to justify it's valuation. EDIT: Aft…

It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor designs have a passive residual heat rem…

I'm not sure I find his argument persuasive. Commodity ETFs actually lose money, most of them have lower returns than the underlying commodity performance or negative returns even …

I'll try to address some of your questions. 1. It's ok to use violence within a constitutionally limited scope. Common elements of this use of violence are: Property rights must be…

Low hanging fruit: -Import scantron test data into a database to analyze which questions students got right/wrong ( http://www.scantron.com/cognition/faqs.aspx ) -Analyze teachers …

It's not just about the money, the article also points out that non-parents have better quality of life in addition to more money: "Researchers have known for some time that parent…