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People always say that math students don't learn about applications of math. This was never the case for me. When I learned trig ratios, I always understood some basic things that …

You're entitled to your opinion, but posting that thesis and saying it's "more truthful" is tremendously silly. You should be able to understand that it's a hypothesis you find con…

I don't see any evidence that this is a "facial recognition system." It's likely hard to legislate against software that attempts to detect if there is a person, what their express…

On some level it's hard to believe that people say things like this, especially out loud and with women present. (But I do believe it)

I don't understand this attitude. Atom's look/feel/functionality/default keybinds are based on sublime text. Sublime text is a lot faster/more reliable. Atom has a large community …

> I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS. Your ISP can (and likely does) monitor your DNS queries, which (as far as I know) a…

> I don't think its any coincidence that TV and movies show the murderous and thieving side of piracy as to condition us to be appalled by them, in general. Is this really true? Th…

This seems right to me. the analogy I'd use is driving a car versus sitting in a passenger seat of a car. When I'm a passenger, I never remember the route we took. I retain almost …

Your argument sounds a lot like "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control." The thing is, that argument can be applied to all laws. Why even have laws? Criminals w…

Do you have any references to recommend on this subject?

If "love of money as a possession" is so rare, then how come so many people who have huge amounts of money don't spend it? Anyway, the general point here is that as you acquire mor…

Here's Keynes with another perspective: > When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be abl…

I know plenty of men who lived through that era (and one man who was born 4 years after Feynman) who are not in the slightest bit sexist. Or are at least far too polite to show it.…

I know a lot of people who found The Road incredibly depressing. But I thought it was optimistic and the most moving thing I've ever read. I haven't read Blood Meridian yet, but Ch…

Some pretty highly regarded economists in the past century have backed up the idea of a land value tax. Does that alone make it a great idea? No, but I think it makes the parent co…

It's not a horrible idea. It's an old idea that's been popular with various economists including (gasp) Adam Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax (I don't know enoug…

I have no idea what "native" means in this context, care to elaborate?

Agreed: the writing is poor for reasons unrelated to grammar.

I agree that saying they "suffer from illusions" is silly. But the rest of your analysis here seems off. There's no reason to lionize these people and act like "society rejected th…

Can I check out Apple Maps in a browser? I'd like to take a look, but I don't have easy access to ios or macos. The screenshots do look fantastic. (Not a criticism of Apple if this…

I never see anyone talking about google's elevation data for buildings and the process they've used to drape imagery over that elevation data. I wonder why that is? Maybe this isn'…

> no sane programmer in this day and age would ever use anything other than open source. Apparently I'm insane. Well, good to know I guess.

> If I went around on some other private forum and said "all people who share attribute X with tps5 are sub-human and should be subservient to me" is that more or less okay? Yeah, …

I don't think you get it. It doesn't matter what some guy posts on some message board (unless it's a threat, an incitement of violence, or something along those lines). It doesn't …

> Perhaps at some point online publishers [will] find a new way to solicit advertising from reputable companies that pay properly. Someone get on this.