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San Francisco has a homeless problem because it invited such. I guess it's total coincidence that the most liberal cities in the US also have the highest incidence of homeless popu…

the societal move to destigmatize obesity is the culprit. It's now okay to be big and beautiful.

at first I thought this was a jab at drupal... then I see it's drupal failing itself. I don't think it's scaling well to YC traffic.

at first I thought this was a jab at drupal... then I see it's drupal failing itself. I don't think it's scaling well to YC traffic.

climate change.

There are some situations where an organism can evolve overnight to exposure to an antibiotic. See Inducible Extended Beta lactamase resistance in E Coli. HOWEVER. Bacteria evolve …

This person reminds me of a lot of people I went to medical school with. Very smart, and yet, not very realistic. He outlines a scenario that is endgame.. when in fact, we are seei…

antibiotics do not cause resistance to form. resistance occurs due to natural mutations. these are going to occur regardless of exposure to antibiotics or not. The antibiotics simp…

one thing I have learned. proving your legal is very, very expensive .

I guess my question is this.. Why is not okay for 'Roosh' to talk about 'Pussy Flow', but perfectly okay for 99% of rap artists?

Hard work and payoff. Food stamps and welfare doesn't buy trips to Bora Bora..

Right, we can't ever expect the masses to learn advanced skills that will be needed in the next cyclic revolution. This has to be the most negative thing I have heard all month. It…

I agree. However, in communist countries (in which my co-workers lived (ex-Soviet)) The job was just a symbol. There would be department stores that sold hardly anything, with 3 pe…

I have to chuckle at the thought of forcing the wealthy to pay other wealthy a minimum income. Or is the 'wealthy' excluded from the definition of 'every adult'. What a complete wa…

Atlas shrugged... and the leaches attacked. I find it hard to believe Swit doesn't already have some welfare system that provides for those who actually need it... but now, 30k a y…

until you see some slime profit from your hard work by simply copying it... it's easy to talk about how evil drm, and copyrights are. I know photographers, great photographers, tha…

religious indoctrination? from the California teachers union? Now that is funny.

Noone is arguing that there WAS a warming trend. The onous to prove its due to humans lies on the chicken littles. It has not yet been accomplished.

Baseball did it right with minor leagues. Football needs to follow. College should not be a minor league football franchise.

I especially like how the people who made the laws are in no way to blame... Nope once again, it's the lobbyists and the evil corporations, never the people who actually made the r…

Forget coding for health care. MD and coder for 15 years. You will make 10x the profit if you avoid the regulations and liability of health care software.. In addition, I'm not sur…