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We can solve this, will we? No. Unless someone can convince the world's population to stop burning fossil fuels. The pain is already here for a lot of people and we're not doing an…

As an American this is pretty embarrassing. Somehow trying to absorb the benefits of another government's regulation and billing it as creating a "freer" market is more popular tha…

I can't imagine building subsidies and alternative fuels will undo the last 200 years of emissions. Structural changes that will reorganize our lives will be necessary. We are in a…

It's scary, but there's nothing I can do. We need approachingly authoritarian action on this issue by world leaders. They've had the data for decades. And the longer they wait, the…

General workplace advice: Know how much you want to work. Don't get exploited into doing extra work. Do your best not to take work home. Your boss it typically useful, but ultimate…

I'm not sure of the potential for growth on either end that podcasts have. Certainly they remain popular with more educated consumers, but I wonder if it's a case of being unable t…

As long as they don't touch the UGB.

While in my opinion the minimum raise should be raised quite a lot, there are a lot of labor reforms needed. In particular for work that falls outside of the salaried work. Waged, …

> voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming This is really the only important thing that we can do. Except maybe not flying in an airplane, ther…

I can take a few days off for no reason. Most people cannot. 40% of American households cannot afford a $400 expense. That means they're at the whim of their employer as to whether…

> see Panama disease for bananas for an example Extinction level blights similar to these are not often found in the natural world. They're only a thing because we (humans) elimina…

I won't speak for other countries, but in The US leisure and general livability are commodities now, not a part of life. The talk about shorter work weeks feel to me like they're r…

Calling a degree useless because its value is not realized by the market today is myopic. If there were an explicit disincentive to study neuroscience, it's very unlikely that you …

The solution isn't to tune properties of the university to make it more efficient in the market. The university is not very compatible with markets. Professors and researchers are …

Data ownership doesn't imply agency and control. In the future I own my data, so what? Does every company simply just demand access to all of it so I can use their services? For da…

I'm not going to claim that IQ quantitatively describes some useful aspect of individuals. I'm not trying to justify a natural aristocracy. Moreso if we actually did identify this …

The weakest part of social security is that it's thought of as a pension and not as a service that government provides to the elderly and disabled. If government wished, it could b…

IQ, flawed as it may be as a measure, is sometimes touted as one of the best predictors of success in life. It's just conjecture, but maybe there's a feedback loop there.

Government can with the stroke of a pen decide to fully fund any program. Even in the case of social security it's just an accounting mechanism. Anyone who says that social securit…

> given the track record of the federal government doesn't sound like a good idea For the vast majority of Americans, their only interactions with the federal government are throug…

Typography often takes into consideration the width of the text explicitly and how it influences the style and tone of the document. While I don't imagine that everyone is doing th…

I'd go even further to suggest that idleness itself has value and doesn't need be justified by the belief that a mind with fewer external stressors is more productive. It's only wo…

Even so the relation isn't simply a matter of scale. Corporations can do a lot things that people cannot. Notably, corporations can live for hundreds of years, some maybe forever. …

Corporations insulate individual actors from the market in return for a corporate wage. The baker enters the market to pursue his own interests, but when USA Bread Corp. hires thou…

Individual ownership of data doesn't solve the problem because there's an inherently unequal relationship between the data's owner and the data's consumer. The consumer whether pub…