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Conservatives think liberals are wrong. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Jonathan Haidt is illuminating: ___ [...]liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pret…

A stronger case would be "it must be more profitable than the alternatives with the same risk" but you skipped a step and went right to "appreciate faster" which is not the only wa…

Arguing with economic laws makes as much sense as arguing with gravity. The only reason you get as far as you do is that the level of econ education approaches zero in the general …

okay, you first.

I am super anti sugar. I don't eat it except in fruit and I don't give it to my child. I still don't want the government messing with nutrition. It's track record with that is just…

it's a fun game: define poverty in terms of wealth inequality and presto if inequality goes up, poverty does too. But here is the thing that we forgot in the west because we essent…

wealth inequality doesn't mean more poor people. I know it's a lot to ask nowadays but please be informed enough about economics to at least know the very basics if you are going t…

Literally the opposite is true. What is it about IQ that makes people straight up hallucinate the opposite of reality.

it's fine when they are gay or trans to please their parents but god forbid they go to bible study.

sounds great, sounds smart, is more true than not but the problem is, you don't have any solutions while the dumb-ass christians do.

> marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all. It so obviously isn't it's painful to imagine this is a widespread belief. Marriage exists to reign in men, monogamous marriag…

> start to counter it Please do try. I don't think what you are saying is true at all and it certainly isn't any thing like a universally accepted scientific truth.

sure, after all you have the world writing for you. The best minds out of hundreds of million put their stuff online faster than you could consume it all. However, if that wasn't t…

I think the author makes an important point. ----- By contrast, membership in groups of necessity cultivate a rather different set of habits and expectations, certain virtues are i…

IQ predicts future income even if the subjects environement is controlled for. It's a very good meassure, probably the best we have in the social sciences. What it tells us is not …

Where I live in the south of Germany nearly every residential area has these artificially narrowed roads and it works a lot better than putting up a incongruent signs ie 30 on a 50…

Games usually let you control if and which buffering to use so for an OS to be stuborn about it and waste Carmacks time over a simple toggle is pretty maddening

well we certaintly aren't moving towards that in Germany so I wonder where they actually are and what that looks like in reality. If everyone else is also just going to burn more c…

and how are these PV users going to cover their baseload?

billions and billions down the drain for symbolism. Mostly private individuals like me payed that via crass energy taxes. It's nice that you get enjoyment out of seeing solar and w…

> And who defines what "the right thing" is? Your human nature. Eat well, be outside, have friends, move you body, have children and strive towards something that is important to y…

Happiness is a feeling. It's purpose is to reward you for doing the right thing. What that is can be pretty flexible but it's ultimately informed by our biological and genetic impe…

This is what I wanted all my life! I wonder what kind of dark magic makes this go and how this will come back to bite me if I use it?

the main feature of this allows you to transparently use structured data as types in your code like type providers in .net. I love kotlin but it can't do anything remotely like tha…

It's only an embarrassment if you have a deep seated anti-commercial bias. Sure, your adjectives are quite invocative but let's contrast your prose with reality: > smuggling Taking…