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Is this sarcasm? I know you know that this would turn Uber into regular taxi cabs.

Nah, that's barely anti-Science. Anti-Science is when you go to jail for doing nothing but testing for the presence of cyanide in the walls of the USSR-reconstructed morgue/air-she…

I stand corrected. Thank you for your time and help and for showing me the respective doc page. This is what I was looking for: "To convert a smooth point to a corner point with in…

> Though I suppose rurality could help with drug and alcohol addictions by limiting access, you can't just pick people up and move them like that. When we are the ones offering to …

> Regarding your first premise, specifically the poor. If I live in a city, and work, but my work only pays enough for me to be poor, you are saying I should be shipped out to the …

> I have been homeless, it's not something I just say. I can't verify it, so I can't say "you have been homeless" or I'd be lying about having evidence of something I don't. So I u…

I don't know, you tell me. If you receive a plot of farmland that you can live off of without any other citizen's help, and you don't owe anyone anything for having received that p…

> The idea that the poor are just too stupid to know how to work is insulting. If you think that is insulting, try getting your ideas attacked through a straw-man argument - that's…

Forgive me for being a little skeptical but can you show us a screenshot of the "toast shape" done in Adobe Illustrator (showing the guide lines, please)? (I'm changing the challen…

The way I see it (my background is Austrian economics), the poor and the homeless are people who cannot afford to live in a city. City-living isn't a right, it's for those who can …

> It's really hard to argue with the track-record of those politicians, pharma companies, and bought scientists. As a lawyer, you should know it's pretty easy: "Past performance is…

Look at what I managed to do with this tool: http://imgur.com/hRJIKBW You know what that means? That this tool understands Bezier curves better than Adobe Illustrator. Why? Because…

Speaking as a self-taught programmer since I was in my early teens: I have nothing against it, some of my coworkers are bootcamp grads and I make sure they know I am available to h…

First of all, it is initiation of violence since the government has to threaten the bank in order to seize assets which the company had already contracted with the bank to keep saf…

Alternatively, why would you not be OK with a system where the rule that everyone must abide by is "do not initiate force"? I wonder what problems you have with it. Is there someth…

Violence, noun. Tertiary meaning, under the rubric of Law: The unlawful exercise of physical force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force . (Emphasis mine.) http://www.oxf…

> (also note that we have a name for cells that refuse to coordinate with the rest of the organism and instead decide to grow as much as they like - they're called cancer). Right, …

> Maybe the legal system is structured such that all 20 million citizens can band together and sue all 10,000 factories simultaneously. Yes, this is the scenario that would occur. …

I'm one of those "some people" you mentioned. It is indeed about morals. Violence, in my view, is definitely a character trait inextricable from genetic makeup and early upbringing…

And yet it seems resilient enough that European countries are importing low-skilled third-world people without any concern for the frafile framework of mutual trust and playing by …

> I'm curious as to why you think completely unregulated industry would result in the most reduction in pollution, when industries with no pollution regulations (but with other reg…

Here's some criticism for you: if this is not a cult, why did they lie about the "97% of scientists" consensus? http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034803045795784... "Yet…

> I was talking about pollution in particular, not every possible conceivable action. Can you point out in your original post ("We already saw what happens") the wording you used t…

> We already saw what happens when the government doesn't take control and lets industry do what they will. Where? What's that place where the industry (short for "all private comp…

The Tragedy of the Commons illustrates precisely the opposite: that if other people are messing up a common good (the world, or the atmosphere, in this case), that means you should…