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Holy cow, that's a small baby! Congratulations on being alive! It looks like good old fashioned jQuery, so I'm surprised your browser doesn't like it, but it looks like the direct …

One of the problems with trying to apply the Objectivist view to a situation like this is that often experts need to tell their patrons true things they don't want to hear. I'll le…

I don't think that's what people have been taking away from the idea of stereotype threat at all. I think it's been much more likely for people to think, "Oh, instead of unchangeab…

A good idea unless it becomes popular. I'm picturing bumper-to-bumper traffic on a highway with a cloud of drones overhead. Each person in their individual car using their individu…

That reminds me of the difficult constraint they must have had in making art and architecture for the game The Witness: nothing could ever accidentally seem to be, from any viewing…

It's weird how, in the the second-to-last paragraph, the author takes the opportunity to attack a few unrelated composers he just thinks are overrated. Almost as if they were guilt…

All the poor children you've met were addicted to drugs? Seems odd. Are you counting sugar as a drug?

And a song that uses it as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg

If we want to open the floodgates on being too pedantic, I think there are uncountably more irrational numbers close to any rational number than there are rational numbers close to…

The article goes on further to explain that, "Shipwrecks create richer habitats that in turn boost fishing conditions, but only as long as the wreck is preserved."

Well, since lack of bank regulation almost destroyed the economy a little while ago, having a job that comes with incentives to reduce regulations is qualitatively different than t…

Well, he just introduces rudimentary technology to ancient humans and then stands back for thousands of years to watch it evolve. He feels guilty that the chain of technological pr…

What political sermon? Do you just mean the diversity of the cast and crew, or did you find something in the story itself that sent a more coherent political message than, "If your…

That's surprising to me. What statistical measures did you use to make sure your conclusion wasn't confirmation bias?

Not to say they've found a good strategy(!), but when the market fails to price in externalities like pollution from cars, acting against the market would be the right thing to do,…

"Songs of Inaudible Automobiles" would have fit and been fun to say aloud.

For context: She's starting off the article with that obviously false malapropism sometimes attributed to George W. Bush as a springboard to talk about entrepreneurship in France, …

Is Sendhil Mullainathan the "black researcher and author" you're talking about? I'm trying to get a sense of how much fact-checking you've put into this.

I think your example fits the theory pretty well. If you flip a coin ten times and get mixed heads and tails, it's boring, but if you get ten heads in a row (so the theory goes), a…

https://archive.org/details/viva-variety-s-01e-01

That's a very impressive achievement, but I think this is one of those classic examples of the post hoc fallacy, "I succeeded by doing this, therefore those who do this will succee…