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wellactually

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About wellactually

Co-founder & CTO of pedantical.ly

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    Offering liquidity is not equivalent to offering free money. The offer comes at a cost.

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    Comment #20954191

    It depends on the values of the host society. They may want to promote democratic access to their country.

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    Comment #20951852

    It's not a perfect solution, granted, but it's less likely to result in implicit selection of only the wealthiest people.

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    Comment #20951115

    Another way would be to charge a modest lottery entrance fee and limit the number of winners to a sensible quota.

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    Comment #20534778

    One trick I learned a while ago is that stepping back as far as possible and taking pictures of people taking pictures is far more interesting than yet another picture of the same …

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    Comment #20296381

    > I prefer people to be themselves rather than pretending to be something else. Very few people are "themselves" in practice. There's a difference between how one feels and what on…

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    Comment #20296226

    Exactly. Social skills can be learned, but often that requires a lot more effort and pain than learning a new programming language or framework. Listening with full attention is th…

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    Comment #19200986

    Use a Neutral Background Color on Your Website: Omit Superfluous Background Images

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    Comment #18875981

    Indeed. It's alarming that such basic scientific literacy is eluding editors at the NY Times.

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    Comment #18875969

    Except that it wasn't. Sexual selection has been well-established as a process within natural selection for decades.

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    Comment #18875685

    There is nothing new in this article causing scientists to rethink Evolution. Sexual selection, on the basis of physical traits (weaponry or ornaments), has been known and observed…

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    Comment #16548049

    > The problem? Florida doesn’t have the authority to adopt daylight saving time year-round. > The federal government controls the nation’s time zones, as well as the start and end …

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    Comment #16423944

    The transcript is below the video, on the same page.

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    Comment #16328611

    It might already be too late: http://infinitecat.com/infinite/cat1.html

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    Comment #11530635

    * Square zero .

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    Comment #8894136

    Bathrooms are the limiting factor in most self-respecting venues. Yet as you state, there are never enough bathrooms, and I'd add they're never private enough. I do not want to hea…

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