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Eric Weinstein made a point (paraphrasing), "you have have scientists you control or you can have scientists you trust". Every institution eventually selects for control. Teaching …

Then why don't they convey their uncertainty? Seems like the bare minimum. Also, they clearly lied about their reasoning in the initial guidance not to wear a mask, you can underst…

Nah, the progressive DAs are really reluctant to prosecute property crime, this discourages the police from making a case for prosecution. I know a filmmaker in Oakland who had tho…

It's fine without boundaries - just as we accept that restaurants can have dress codes, it's not okay for those dress codes to be filters for the undesireables. I can imagine twitc…

It's not cancel culture when you opt out of something, it's cancel culture when you decide for others that that they can't do something. Throwing these books away isn't cancel cult…

I think there's a well of volunteers. I'm doing pretty well financially, enough so that I could support a family. I just can't find a partner who wants to start a family. I know th…

The democrats were the segregation party. Go read a history book.

wasn't there an active insurrection in 2016 as well? The Obama admin was trying to entrap members of the Trump team and people rioted during the inaguration.

$600 for car seats that make a compact sedan as practical as a 3-row SUV for parents seems like a solid investment.

Way more welfare programs are available for single women than married women.

There's a huge hidden cost to price controls through - they don't promote innovation as much as markets do. The US develops over half the world's new pharmaceuticals, if we imposed…

IT was apportioned on the number of slaves, but remember, slavers wanted the slaves counted as a full person and the free states didn't want the slaves counted at all. Decide which…

+1. The second order effects are really troubling. I've heard that millions of people became first time gun owners. I support the right to keep and bear arms, but there were millio…

It would be interesting to see the democrats embrace the idea that progressive taxation is unjust and that a person's tax bill should influence the services they're entitled to.

Female refers to biological sex. It would be more appropriate for this article to refer to her simply as a 'woman', but ideally just 'backup driver'.

Rents are nominally flat but I think landlords are making free N months of rent concessions that are unprecedented. Additionally, Silicon Valley is under an eviction moratorium so …

I don't think there are batteries that meet Toyota's durability standards. Toyota wants their cars to be able to last a million miles in extreme environments (-40 degrees Alaska, +…

Seems like the systemic oppression cuts against racism, not in favor of it.

It seems trivial to verify the authenticity of 100 votes of known people, with a roster that changes by a maximum of 1/3rd every 2 years.

There's no way you can say that all the open/close decisions were analytically/objectively supported, and you can tell by the selective (rather than universal) 'social distancing' …

Deflation isn't horrible unless you have a lot of debt, it rewards savers. It's probably less efficient for central banks to try to 'hack' inflation than just deploy fiscal policy.…

Yikes, they included grievance studies in their data set. I'd like to see these results only for science Ph. Ds. I'm sure women / minority Ph. Ds seem super innovative when you hav…

The demand fell, supply went up dramatically and there's a new equilibrium. Very few advertisers are actually in a true "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that they're fighting toot…

You're right, Bubba doesn't need an AR-15, but Rosa Parks didn't need to sit in the front of the bus, the back of the bus was more than good enough to get her to work.