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I'm surprised to hear YC courting would-be founders who are more interested in finishing college (grad school, even!). Affinity to the norms of academic institutions (not unlike la…

> He has suggested that America’s government was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 and the September 11th terrorist attacks. He says that vaccinating children will give…

Sophisticated people understand that there are no actual conspiracies, only baseless conspiracy theories.

In terms of harmful ingredients, phospates (used to increase water content) might actualy be more dangerous than nitrates. Consumption of added phospates is linked to renal failure…

What the law does is transfer the power to defraud the public from the common grifter to a central authority. In doing so, it adds another, more sinister tool to the ones you menti…

> not knowing if they're trading digital dollar bills or monopoly money Is there a difference?

>the solution is to invest more fully in the process, giving meaning to your life through activities that have no terminal point Are there such activities? Even the more process-or…

Nutritional supplements compete with pharmaceuticals. Could there be a conflict of interest when an institution that is heavily influenced by big pharma puts out a study on their c…

It might be worth exploring the reason why the "taboo" on this subject has recently been breached. Could it be that how we define life and our expectations of it have shifted? In a…

Economics as a discipline is fraught with normalcy bias. Macroeconomics assumes a government. Taxes are assumed. Deficits are a given. Central banks, fiat legal tender, and fractio…

It's also a biased component. Patent-filing opportunities mostly go to senior or above engineers at larger firms.

First accept the fact that your team - despite their vaunted achievements in many areas - is not competent in ideation. Ideation is more than just pulling a rabbit (you've probably…

> But the notion of JrGQL and GQL as query languages means that the servers handling these calls must be query resolvers. Unlike most restful interfaces which tend to devote a sing…

Zuckerberg 2020 Trust Me, Dumb Fucks

Perhaps teaching isn't quite as valuable as you think. Has that ever occurred to you? Or, perhaps unctuous grandstanding should supplant market forces.

Very true. Additionally, it's harmful to the cause of morality to equate illegality with immorality (as the term 'criminality' seems to imply).

The socialist slave number was never intended as a private key empowering the bearer to authorize or prove identity. It's more akin to a serial number on a a manufactured item. It …

A one-word rebuttal: weather

The problem with supra-nations is that, as bigger monopolies on government, they are much harder to vote against with your feet. You know, in case they become captured by special i…

> Guns are not part of the human condition, and we could do without them if we so chose. Could we really do without them? No guns for madmen, sane people, kids, death squads, adult…

Not necessarily anarchy. When you join twitter, you agree to be bound by its terms. To envision competing twitters providing arbitration and security services does not take a heroi…

Or it could fall from the sky, or grow on trees... I agree with one point: UBI will provide freedom -- the freedom of some fraction of society to live at a very low standard at the…