That's neat, except that you can construct the real numbers as equivalence classes of convergent sequences of rational numbers, where two sequences are equivalent if and only if their difference converges to zero.

Pay people a reasonable wage to attend university or job training instead. If their particular skills aren't needed in the labor market, they can either develop new ones or use their skills to benefit society through research or the arts. Yes, this would require creating new schools and universities.

I believe what he's trying to say is that a majority when weighted by mining power isn't the same as a majority when weighted equally (i.e. one human per vote). In that sense it is fairly different from traditional conceptions of democracy and closer to plutocracy.

If there was such a thing as big-T Truth that was perfectly knowable, this, and other forms of censorship, would be great. Anything false could simply be censored and anything true let stand.

It's because perfect truth is inaccessible to us that we need to embrace truth seeking rather than the truth as we know it. Rejecting censorship is part of that stance.

Youtube and proper online courses are performing many of the functions that traditional education once served. While it's true that online resources don't currently constitute a complete replacement for traditional education, can you really be confident there will always be significant aspects of education that cannot be automated?

At least when there are deals, it's cheaper to get a ride in what's often a nice, shiny luxury sedan than a worn-down, stinky taxi.

So what if Uber gets the whole market? The instant their prices go above what's competitive, someone will spend a few hundred thousand bucks to start a cheaper service. People here can be kind of stingy, which seems to be what Uber is banking on.

That's great, except that if you ask the cops to get your stolen property back, they'll promptly tell you to fuck off.

"Do not track" was supposed to represent the user's preference. MS turned it on by default and broke the standard, which is SOP for them.

If only such an organization existed!

Ignoring reality makes you less powerful, not more. If you want real political power in the US, you'll have to do more than vote.

Eating fruit is oral sex with plants and if you don't shit out the seeds in fertile ground, it's rape, obviously!

Did you mean intersection?

It's a paraphrase of Cardinal Richelieu, who not only made the following quote, but practiced what he described: "Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him."

When the powerful can manipulate their societies into killing as they see fit, it's best to give them as little excuse as possible. The sitting US president claims that he can legally kill Americans on American soil without trial.

As an afterthought, what if being a student paid just as well as the average white-collar job? Studying diligently is at least as taxing as most full-time jobs.

We should pay the unemployed to enroll in colleges and universities (not merely subsidize the costs of education), since higher levels of education would ultimately benefit society as a whole.