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Good point. If you think about it, due to the distribution of guns and the fact that the majority of gun deaths are suicides, accidents, or domestic violence - living in a gun-free…

I think that's built into this, though. People don't have to "believe" if it's cheaper.

I think if you read the article more closely using those examples was supposed to be pointing out lazy thinking, not actually advocating those as legitimate answers.

The way you check Google, before you look like an ass on Hacker News.

Yes I suppose it is. I guess I should say it the other way. I'm impressed with the long-botheredness of people in power regardless of the intent of the people wearing the fashion. …

This is pretty much the longest ongoing trolling effort in existence.

Recently someone posted a platform that would let you build hosted apps. It included security, a spreadsheet, contacts, and an API to customize it. I thought it was cool at the tim…

Have we considered there's actually a hiring and management problem? That we have organizations ill equipped to find and train new employees and thus they only go with proven candi…

It also includes far more writing and communication than it does mathematics, and yet we don't tend to talk about it as a part of Liberal Arts (or specifically Philosophy) much at …

Another way to phrase it is libertarians should focus on the heavy lifting of reforming small pieces of government where they are likely to have success rather than focusing so sin…

Actually one of the things that gives me the most hope is the fact that Godwin's law is so much less frequently invoked. I think after a couple decades of being able to vomit up th…

Interesting I wouldn't have counted them twice, as my instinct is that we're talking about an adjective and an adverb - BUT - flouncing is also a noun that is the material that is …

This is one of the frightening thing about ADHD prescriptions. With children with ADHD the amphetamines are supposed to work as a depressant. If your kid is getting focus from the …

Do you realize that by excluding someone who considers themselves a white male from being a "white male" you're proving that the construct is entirely about privilege and discrimin…

This isn't "American Schools" these are the ultra-competitive "good schools". Put your kid in a normal school that has experienced teachers and is closer to the average for output …

It just means that they don't include buildings that are falling apart, nor do they include penthouse flats. Texas and Louisiana both have lots of dark purple and have the very wor…

There are a lot of us with kids in the cities, though. Many of us think the schools are good enough and don't want the super-stressful "good" schools of the suburbs for our kids. I…

In the US voting is not guaranteed to be anonymous. It's protected and (mostly) un-traced to prevent coercion. But the fact you voted is recorded. If you live in a district with fe…

Do we though? I think we need to fight to keep speech in the open. There's no constitutional right to free speech that can't be traced back to you. If we're going to equate money a…

By participating in test prep isn't the College Board basically saying their test has no value? It's supposed to test if your education has prepared you for college. They're now ba…

I plan to organize with my neighbors and cooperate to survive doomsday. It has been a proven effective method in the aggregate for the history of the world. Lone survivalists have …

Right, and when you make $10k per year a hamburger costs $1, and when you make $50k per year a hamburger costs $5, and when you make $100k per year a hamburger costs $10. In the re…

Those historically low tax rates really show the muscle of the poor.

Sure, I was trying to create a simplistic system here though. Clearly if we spent years we might come up with something sort of elegant and sort of fair, just like our tax code. Th…

Because consumption drives the economy at its most basic level. You can have the rich invest in companies they like or you can have consumers "invest" in companies they like throug…