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> Me; it's far superior to anything outside of a mouse. I used to love the track point - it felt so efficient to have my pointing device right on the home row of the keyboard. Even…

> There is if we add on a tax for the negative externalities, we need to consider both positive and negative externalities to get the tax right. There are few positive externalitie…

>That is the informal definition of an externality right there. You pay a grocer who pays a farmer who pays a fertiliser manufacturer who buys some natural gas. You wanting to eat …

There surely are positive externalities, but the very useful things we burn fossil fuels for are reflected in the price - cheap or no. Those primary reasons for burning fuel will h…

As the article says >Libertarianism's attraction is based on ignoring externalities, and cryptocurrencies are no exception. The economy as currently regulated doesn't correctly pri…

>we keep having articles saying that bitcoin transactions are a waste of energy, and everyone ignoring that the block reward halves every few years until it drops to zero, so it no…

The browser is the user-agent, ie. an agent acting on behalf of the user. The browser chose to fetch the font, based on the orinal response. It could be configured not to.

Doesn't this attitude overlook the "agency" of the "User-Agent"?

Are you content that full ownership of the device is a "premium feature"?

> AD: The fact that Paul is taking on all the risk, in effect Paul has made a self-endorsement via proxy... Is funding your own stake via a third party explicitly allowed, or is it…

I never have this issue. Is it a difference between iOS and Android keyboards, or did I add it to my dictionary long ago and forget all about it?

If you're a driver, at some point you'll probably need to write bytes into a device register, mapped to a raw address in physical memory. That's a fundamentally unsafe thing to do:…

Every Ethereum smart contact is validated (run) on every node in the Ethereum network, in order to achieve distributed consensus. It should be possible to be thousands of times mor…

Nobody in this discussion has said they're against inherited wealth. Just that its existence is one reason to favour "one person, one vote" over "one dollar, one vote"

There's an unstated premise here that the market doesn't force some people's choices on other people. I doubt that that's true - especially when competition is limited. There are l…

RNA is genetic material, but it encodes instructions to make proteins, which form the physical shell of the virus crucial to its function. As a very rough analogy, the RNA is sourc…

I don't think it's ridiculous, no. (But I think wincing at some of your examples would be.) Really I'm not the best person to judge though. I'm happy to be guided by people who exp…

I don't think anyone is arguing that it's always a bad metaphor, just that it's an unnecessarily violent one.

> If you can directly identify any of these fallacies while arguing on the internet your stance on the subject instantly becomes correct and the opposing view wrong. Elsewhere, thi…