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

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

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

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

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 thing.

There are only so many interesting photos of the Mona Lisa. But there are an infinite number of interesting photos of people maniacally taking photos of the Mona Lisa. If you're lucky, you might snap a pic of an instagrammer falling off a cliff, or getting hit by a truck.

> 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 one conveys. Communication is about conveyance.

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 the most underrated "best practice" in tech.

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

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

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 since Darwin. Evolution doesn't produce the best adaptations to a given environment. Rather it produces the least worst. Reproduction of genes through generations is the name of the game.

> 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 dates of daylight saving time. States can choose to exempt themselves from daylight saving time — Arizona and Hawaii do — but nothing in federal law allows them to exempt themselves from standard time.

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

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

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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 hear or smell when other people are doing their business, and I certainly don't want them to hear or smell mine. Why aren't there more private bathrooms? Is it taboo to discuss bathrooms?

edit: But Where Do People Do Their Business In This Office?

"Everyone deserves a happy home... at work."

The xkcd is only necessarily true when it is the median average that is considered. However, most people are not necessarily of mean average intelligence.

And it's making the world a better place.

False. A group's ability to survive a cataclysmic event, natural catastrophe, epidemic, or genocide depends on its size and diversity. There is safety in numbers and diversity.

It's "37signals."