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If you actually find yourself falling from a similar height as described in this story, what can you do to maximize your chances of survival? Try to impact feet first? Sideways and…

“the type of person who can build frontends for Google AdWords doesn’t have the skills necessary to do something better and should be content providing a service and taking care of…

Literally the next paragraph he writes: “But that’s not what happened, because her aggressive tattletale move immediately threw my Primitive Mind into a rage, plummeting me down th…

It’s not more intellectually challenging but it’s a hell of a lot more work. You need to get accepted into a top-5 law school, study like crazy for three years and rack up a couple…

Just because Hong Kong “belongs” to China doesn’t mean the west should ignore the wishes of what seems like the majority of the population that lives there. Especially when they’re…

Heating a house is much more expensive than cooling down a house [1], so if avg temps rise total carbon footprint due to temperature control will most likely fall. A very small sil…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_... This is some relevant background reading for anyone who thinks Bernie's tax revenue numbers are realistic.

It's your description that is completely wrong. A transaction tax has been tried before in Sweden[1], had disastrous effects on their stock markets, and had to eventually be repeal…

I'm going to illustrate why I think the points brought up by this post have at minimum some level of validity with a toy example, that takes sex out of the equation completely. Let…

I used to be pretty active on iccup, and I was a masters-level sc2 player for a while during the beta and when it was first released. So I'm definitely familiar with starcraft and …

A lot of people here seem to be underestimating the difficulty of this problem. There are several incorrect comments saying that in SC1 AIs have already been able to beat professio…

Different strokes for different folks. You don't need to convince me about the benefits of a digital nomad lifestyle - I travel extensively and spend 30+ days skiing/riding every y…

Hong Kong has one of the best subway systems in the world and it generates a profit every year [1]. The USPS also generates profits as well [2]. I would argue that the profit motiv…

The problem with stock options is that the majority of their value is not directly tied with your individual performance. You can be a stellar employee but your options could turn …

50 years ago, who would have thought of search engine optimization as a job? Social media manager? Video game storyline writer? I'm not saying that people who are displaced will ea…