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RSS/Atom feeds and video files you can play with whatever video player you want seems like it'd cover most of those concerns? The relatively closed nature of YouTube isn't necessar…

I was going to say that I think people kind of build up an immunity or aversion to those sorts of requests as they become more common, but after some consideration there's a differ…

I've never understood why people assume that sort of investment is going to be going to the housing market in particular, especially when it goes along with complaints of absentee …

>It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land. Can you expand on this? I'm not exactly sure what you consider t…

They compare it to polymer in the docs - much smaller, for one.

This seems pretty cool, and being able to display charts easily is a valuable thing to have. There doesn't seem to be any fallback for people to view charts if they don't have the …

So what if the PETA case offers a deal that is accepted under the circumstances those families are actually in? All offers and trades are contingent on the circumstances someone's …

Is the US system better in that regard?

Nominal GDP growth and real GDP growth are very different things, and it's the latter people are referring to. If it was only nominal that mattered, we could have a arbitrary econo…

Why are they too easy to get?

There is at the start of the article?

I don't think you're disagreeing here. Kalium is saying that an apprenticeship model is the wrong way to teach these skills.

Are you arguing that there isn't a causal effect between people living together and domestic violence?

Putting aside single-payer, what's the rationale for doing health insurance through employers, rather than individuals paying for it out of their income?

This is the sort of place real change is going to come from. Transparent public information, that at the very least will shame politicians into voting in the interests of the peopl…

It would be useful for both purposes, wouldn't it?

I'm not so sure about your conclusion there. The galaxy is around 100k light years across. Seems like a lot, but the Orion project looked like it could potentially reach speeds of …

Language changes all the time. Everyone knew what was intended to be communicated. I don't really see what the problem is, it's not like there's some platonic ideal of the English …

There's one recommending boredom now too.

I think it's just meant to be assonant with "carnivore".

What are the costs of trigger warnings, compared to the benefits? It seems like a blatantly worthwhile tradeoff to me.

I think SJS has only resulted from modafinil use fewer than ten times in total. It's a rare enough response that it's difficult to figure out the actual risks, and I can't find inf…