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University of Illinois has top notch CS grads too, pretty close to Indy. Seems like the most likely reason they made the list.

Indy also has underrated infrastructure - having to host the massive event that is the Indy 500 every year has given the city experience in dealing with large influxes of travelers.

So far as I understand (though it's hard to prove) everyone in the line was named William until my great grandfather emigrated to Canada in the early 20th and changed his name to John.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dobson

What’s more, once the researchers took the effect of physical strength out of the equation, men and women were equally likely to be depressed.

Humans, and men especially, are pre-disposed to solve social problems with violence. In cultures where violence is restrained or completely removed as a solution, it's not surprising that more men are depressed.

Does anyone have thoughts on alternative app stores like Google Play or Amazon? The markets are obviously much smaller, but there's also much less competition.

A 40 hour work week for 50 weeks a year is 2000 hrs. I've never been able to do it, but I believe I could be far far more productive working 25, 80-hour weeks or 20, 100-hour weeks - probably split into two or three separate chunks.

There are laissez faire arguments to counter every example you provided, but calling monetary policy laissez faire is oxymoronic or, if you prefer, anti-intellectual.

I could be wrong, but this seems to be because Republicans control more states than Democrats do.

I agree that some people will use the awesome power of pocket super computers for frivolous things, and some won't, but I don't think banning smartphones in schools is the answer.

The folks empowered by smartphones will suddenly have less power, diminishing themselves and their contribution to society.

The folks who can't stay off Candy Crush when they have a smartphone are still going to struggle with distraction, it'll just be comics/dating/some other distraction.

The second group may learn a bit more, but it seems like a net loss for society as a whole - which completely opposes the stated mission of a mandatory education.

But it's hard to ignore the deification of certain individuals through celebrity. If some of society's foundational institutions are failing, it's fair to suggest the deification of power brokers as a root cause.

This seems terribly relevant. And it's interesting coming from a director - the leader of creative communities behind the camera while commercial success often depends on the individual standing in front of it.

Agreed. Human animals will always find pseudo-rational reasons to do nefarious things.

It's also possible it evolved elsewhere and rode here on a meteor - or was brought here by some other lifeform several orders of magnitude more advanced than us, using earth as their own cosmic terrarium.

It seems like the next frontier in distance running optimization is the mind. Given the analysis on the runners' physiology, the only thing that really separated them was mentality.

This seems obvious, given the nature of distance running, but the article never mentions sports psychology or mental exercises the runners do to improve performance.

That's pretty interesting, given that so many elite athletes have put such an emphasis on the mental part of their game:

I knew I was going to wrestle in the finals of the Olympics against a Russian and I knew he had been training specifically to beat me, but then I knew the guy was on steroids, That would help me. Whereas some might think ‘oh he’s cheating, for me you didn’t pay the price. You’re not as committed as I am. It’ll tear him apart. He may be strong, but all I have to do during that 9 minutes of wrestling is loosen one single wire in his brain, make him do something that isn’t perfect, and he’ll fall apart. Besides the health effects, what you lose when you use steroids is mental toughness. The key to victory is that the strongest mind wins. You can get physical strength with steroids, but you lose the mental toughness (you would have gained) from brutal hard work. Steroids hurt mental toughness by serving as a crutch. - Dan Gable[0]

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. To be a champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali[1]

Physically is a little bit easier, but the mental part is the hardest part, and I think that's what separates the good players from the great players - Michael Jordan[2]

[0]https://www.bjjee.com/articles/wrestling-legend-dan-gable-st... [1]https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-power-of-vis... [2]https://youtu.be/xlFRZmUmaYI

There were a billion people on this planet 200 years ago and now there are 7 billion people. The main reason for that is profits.

When someone grows a bushel of wheat for $3.75 and sells it for $4.30, they're able to grow 13% more wheat in the next harvest. That profit makes the growing of wheat self sustaining and scalable.

Now apply the logic to every crop, every home appliance, every energy source - every endeavor human beings pursue. The result is 6 billion people who didn't die of starvation, disease, or exposure.

The biggest problem with lefty attacks on the profit motive is they simply don't realize that the profit motive could be used to solve the problems they describe!

Upset about the education options in this country? Create a profitable alternative and you can scale it out to every student in America.

Don't like the obesity problems developed countries face? Find a profitable way to turn fat people into skinny people and watch the pounds of every population dwindle.

Profits are like magic. They make solutions to difficult problems available on a mass scale. There have no doubt been some growing pains as humans have learned to harness this magic, but the solution to those growing pains is not to eliminate the profit motive - the best solution is always profitable.

Your salary should ALWAYS be the highest possible salary the market can support.

Equity or options compensation at a startup should be used to defray the risk of the company failing in the near and midterm.

So if Google is offering you $100k, then you should be asking Startup X for $100k plus equity.

It seems arrogant to call the "big void" a discovery, being that someone actually built the big void.

I would expect this "discovery" has been discovered a few dozen times, considering the age of the pyramids, but previous discoveries were lost to history.

For the USD to collapse and not take the rest of the world with it, there would have to be some sort of global currency diversification that diminished the centralized power of the US in the global economy.

To continue the British Empire analogy, there would have to be some currency "revolutions" around the world. If the USD tanked, would Euros be able to replace it? Pounds? Yen? Yuan?

All of the countries tied to those currencies are heavily invested in US debt and many of their fortunes are tied to the US consumer.

That paradigm shift may be coming, but it seems like it's still a ways off to me.

Do you have sources for this? Bonus points if it's something updated regularly that I can bookmark.

Is there a way to change the rules of public debate to align the game with the interest of the people?

To the author's point, it seems like the problem is fixed for a short time after new rules are introduced. Then, after the Machiavellian players figure out the weak points, the competition becomes a grotesque of what it was intended to be.

This makes me think Thomas Jefferson was on to something when he said we should rewrite parts of the constitution[0] once a generation.

It's much more difficult to game the system when the game's rules keep changing.

[0]https://newrepublic.com/article/63773/what-jefferson-said

Being a company owner, would you be more or less likely to hire folks with a criminal record based on your experience?

As others have said, there are pink sheet OTC stocks and then there are companies like Snap and Square that only IPO so private equity can make a profit. For average joe investors looking to find opportunities like in the late 90's tech bubble, ICO's seem to be the answer.