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This IS the market working.

Maybe you should read the entire article.

Sounds like what you guys want is something for nothing. Unless I'm missing something...?

One little thing like this isn't a huge barrier to entry, but a hundred little things like this make a whopper of a barrier to entry.

The problem is that there are an overwhelming number of choices when it comes to what to do with one's life. Parents need to at least make it clear that there's a relatively small …

This hits the nail on the head. It's not that people don't understand the syntax or even the semantics of programming languages (well, some people can't write a for loop, but they'…

While I agree that we shouldn't put people into boxes (figuratively or literally), the problem with what you're suggesting is that people become depressed when they don't know what…

A better article would be called, "How the Workplace Hurts Sex"

"...if you cut the wage tax, you have to increase revenue generation from something else." ...uh, no, you don't.

I don't want people to get the impression that weight-lifting inevitably leads to injury. This guy was seriously overdoing it or had poor form if his body was "shot" after two year…

It's about damn time we started having this conversation.

This is going to sound extremely cynical, but I believe that there's another reason why people enjoy coming up with ideas while in the shower or driving or taking a walk or...etc. …

Actually, I think that the Catholic church is the oldest existing bureaucracy.

She didn't work fifteen hours a day. She taught fifteen credit hours.

I agree, with the caveat that it shouldn't be done on a curve. College should be much harder than it is, but it should be theoretically possible for everyone in a class (of super-g…

That's what he said. The parents would pay you a flat rate (today's tuition) and you would pay their kid's tuition 10-15 years from now. Assuming the bubble burst before then, you …

Looks like Smalltalk.

Your only valid point is that the replacement organisms might be more dangerous to humans. I find your callousness toward human suffering repulsive. If I could press a button that …

90% of the works created are crap anyway.

Maybe we could--GASP!--teach them trades based on their interests and aptitudes. The current system is best described by the following Marilyn Manson lyrics: "Trained to be stupid/…

$3M would definitely be FU money to me. Not enough to live in opulence, but definitely enough to not have to work for a living.

"FU money is no more or less than what you make of it... and it can run out as fast as it came if you aren't careful. Plenty of people are in the "FU" financial stage and don't eve…

Poker is a game of skill which has a chance component.

No you couldn't.

I have no idea. I've never been inside one either. But the author was criticizing--well, insulting--a political faction, not expressing a dislike of women.