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Perhaps your work is really about making someone a bit richer, you realize this subconsciously and refuse to waste time on that pointless activity.

Ha, that was my first thought when I read the full title. Edit: in the abstract I've found this: "and only it's e_ects is observed."

I suppose the "Education fund" is indirectly owned by Trump?

Interesting music with a few novel techniques (a rarity in modern music), but it hardly has any physiological effects.

Oh, there's a binding arbitration clause in all employment contracts.

Is it like a competition in sarcasm here?

Argh, Youtube is infested with ads these days: even after uBO has cut 200+ requests, youtube is still unusable.

I'm not seeing that luxury investment housing, though. The newly built houses are usually +/- cheap junk at premium prices. At the same prices there's a low supply of 30-40 year ol…

What opportunities? Tell me how an average cashier can land an average 150k/year job in a metro area? Don't forget that the said cashier has mediocre intelligence, so-so appearance…

I'm not sure how one would survive on 60k for even 10 years. This isn't an "investable" amount and it's not enough for food, yet along housing expenses.

Your countertops or your landlord's countertops? Because all the rest - all those iphones & vacations - is cheap fluff, really.

From their perspective, it would be rational to cut a deal with JPMC: they bring workforce back to offices, landlords get their money and give a % of that to a few execs at JPMC. A…

As a senior manager, he's a professional liar first.

Professional scientists can't bet their reputation on a novel idea: a 1% chance it'll work out and 99% chance the scientist will be sent to academia's exile. It's better than what …

In some sense, the modern institute of science is somewhat like an orthodox church: a few pre-approved lines of thinking with a swift punishment for heretics. This is the biggest s…

I'm not a vegan of any sort, but one day I realized that I hadn't eaten meat for really long time and I didn't really want to anymore. That must have something to do with fruits: t…

"to focus fully on the world of ideas" - very interesting choice of words.

It's a gov policy, really: companies get special status, i.e. smaller taxes, if such and such criteria are met.

You know what? I have a clever idea: the Diversity Standard 500 index, or just DS500. We have this SP500 index: a weighted sum of 500 companies into which everyone invests piles of…

As funny as it sounds, we're watching the formation of "progressive fundamentalists" - their "inclusion committee" would give people a low social score if their skin isn't black en…

There was a precedent: blind auditions in orchestra. Results were rather predictable.

A levitating frog warrants even more skepticism, but it's levitating.

My favorite example of these water experiments is sonoluminescence: a tank of water is driven by a high-frequency acoustic transducer to create a 3d standing wave, which forms a ti…

This is some mediocre people came up with idea that they could easily understand what Calabi-Yau manifold is, if only mathematicians defined it with simple plain words. They don't …

In this example with Google, the higher ups might reject this idea, but only because the measure would have a net negative impact on their own bonuses: pulling the cheap drinks wou…