So where is the same study for the other politically influenced sciences such as Climate Science? Or should we make assumptions about the political motivations of the researchers behind *this* study?

That's odd, since a 7" tablet fits comfortably into my hand. Does your mommy know that you are posting personal information on the Internet?

"And a 4" screen is the optimal size... right up until this Fall when Apple releases the iPhone 6!"

Would someone who actually has a Ph.D. refer to it as a "phd"?

He just needs to tell them that the passphrase he uses contains a confession to a crime. Then, he could not divluge his password without confessing to a crime, which he cannot be compelled to do.

The world is running out of hellholes that tolerate slave labour

And you're saying that's a bad thing? It tends to point out the complete failure of charity, well-wishing, and flowery language to lift people out of absolute poverty and the massive success of the invisible hand of capitalistic greed accomplishing this social good without even wanting to.

Gay marriage, abortion,

... CEO pay. It's a stupid and inconsequential wedge issue for leftists like gay marriage is for rightists — "Some people somewhere are consensually doing something that offends my sensitive sensibilities, so it has to stop even though it's a private matter that I have no part in and no business sticking my nose into!"

Japan is already protected by the US nuclear program, so nothing really changes.

Ukraine's broders were also guaranteed by the US and other western powers.

Uber gets to do this b/c of hype, idiots like you, and bribery.

Uber gets to do this b/c of better service and drastically lower prices.

The way I see it, you can eliminate the advantages of HFT while keeping the markets highly responsive by imposing a "clocking" scheme on exchanges. When an order is received by an exchange, it is not executed immediately but stored in a queue to wait for the next clock tick. When that comes, the order queue is shuffled into random order and then executed sequentially. Make the clock ticks wait a random period between 40ms and 50ms and any timing advantage of HFT or geography is nullified. The exchanges are still highly responsive; they just do randomized batch processing. All of the requests they receive in the previous clock period ought to be processed within the new clock period (with perhaps some occasional spill-over, in which case the new clock tick is stretched).

Sounds a lot like House episode "Autopsy".

If we average that, then we get 136,231.25 miles before the price difference pays for itself.

But you also need to factor in that when you've reached 136 kmiles, your battery is worn out and you need to drop a fresh $20k on a new battery (or take $20k off your car's resale value).

Also, House S5E19. Dr. Taub comes up with the pointer thingy.

Guess Apple didn't want to take another American company to court. It would lose the home-country advantage its trivial patents had against Samsung.

Stock market is a zero-sum game (wealth transfer vehicle).

That doesn't make sense. Suppose a simple stock market with only a single share of a single company. Alice buys it at $1, holds it for a year, and then sells it to Bob for $2. After another year Bob sells it to Carol for $3. Alice made $1 profit, Bob made $1 profit, and Carol has an asset that is worth $3. Where's the zero sum? Is Carol's stock really worth $-2?? You seem to accept that the economy can grow overall. If companies can grow, then so can the stock market.