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I agree that at some point there will be a decrease in risk taking and investments but I don't think that risk and investments are inherently more important than all other factors.…

So in Bezos case with his estimated net worth of 205B USD and assuming a average net worth of an american family of 750k (not sure how accurate this number is it was the first thin…

> Renewable energy sources needs to be supported by power plants that can produce constantly. Do you have a source for that claim? Keep in mind that there are also renewable energy…

Radioactive waste is doing real damage to the planet. After decades of evaluation storage facilities germany has no option that is considered safe. We have a responsibility towards…

I don't think thats how most people mount a bicycle. You can easily get on it without touching the brakes. After all while you are still touching the ground you are breaking it.

Given that you feel like the Pareto distribution can never be wrong I propose that we model all taxes accordingly. After all it should be natural that very few people pay most taxe…

The point of distinction is that EU internal immigration and the refugee situation are entirely different things. Refugees leave there home countries because of war and terror. Mem…

I never understood why people care how many people are part of the creation of music. The overall product should be better if every part of it (writing, producing, perfoming, ...) …

>How is Google holding consumers hostage and not Apple? It does not matter what Apple is doing this is about Google. I would expect that there are ongoing investigations against Ap…

I met a couple of people in online games that I would consider friends. I guess winning and loosing together helps to bond :D

1 and maximizing time spend in the app (see sibling comment) seem like a good explaination for this. I'm not sure about 2 but it might be true aswell. > 3. You'll use the service r…

> It's like watching a goddamn movie with scenes shuffled randomly. It makes no sense. Have you seen Memento? Jokes aside I never understood why twitter does not allow the user to …

> If anticheating techniques really require root access, then people that care about competitive gaming should have an option to consider this trade-off and turn the anticheating p…

For me it works well to listen to music with lyrics that I know so well that I dont even really listen to the lyrics anymore. In general I feel like music works better if I know it…

For the vast majority of users git is bug free. If there is an issue with git nowadays its highly specific and well suited to be handled in a mailing list. This also makes it easie…

> As I have said it encourages additional low quality questions which is more work for the mods. "low quality" question could just be marked as such and kept mostly unmodorated. By…

I know about the phrase I just felt like giving an equally vague answer to your comment. To stay on topic what makes you think that the comparison is flawed? What makes webpack unc…

Your phrase is broken. You can easily compare apples to oranges.

> Afaik, chess AI (I mean, modern ones like deep blue) had little to no wide impact on AI. Apart from the pure technical side (which I am no expert in so you might be right) the im…

> You can't get much more scouting than that because there is a cost associated with scouting, either because you lose a worker's time or because you spread out your army. I agree …

> Then you can deduce if he has something hidden somewhere or in production. Of course this is impossible to do for a human, but really easy for a computer. This is definitly not i…

>What do you build when everyone talks to each other over Slack? This should be pretty obvious. You build all systems around a single messagebroker and each service/unit uses a chr…

I would argue that git at its core solves the problem of handling a shared verifiable state. The history of a git repository is build on the same hashing principles as a blockchain…

You are mixing things up. While it's true that Cryptocurrencies try to solve a different problem than BitTorrent, Git and Email neither of those applications rely on a single centr…

I dont understand why this gets downvoted. While all those things might have happend without social media its pretty obvious that targeted advertisment and "social media bubbles" p…