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Wasn't the data the guy was blackmailing him with the information on sellers on the site? Between 100+ people getting 5+ year jail sentences (arbitrary numbers here) and two people dying, the later might seem more acceptable to a strong libertarian.

I'd like to have hope that this is not a long-term trend, that these counterproductive lawsuits will soon awaken politicians to the need to reform patent and copyright law to a form that encourages innovation and creation.

I'm not sure if this is an easy problem to solve, though, or if it requires deeper problems of corruption to be fixed first.

I imagine it would be quite difficult to have working multiplayer relativistic mechanics. So far, I can only see single player mechanics working, which would restrict the appeal of such a game.

They do this for New Zealand school students. A truck with a dental clinic inside it comes to the school and everyone gets a check-up.

It also depends on the circumstances, though. And I've found the problem with gym memberships is that it adds a small obstacle to keeping up exercise habits if you're moving around as often as this guy, and that can make a significant difference. If you've got to find a good gym and sign up to it and potentially have the hassle of only using it for a few months so you can't get the benefit of a 6 month contract, etc, then it's easy to decide to not get a gym membership. Running can provide a lot of the benefits with a lot less hassle.

Democracy's pretty cool, I agree, but the stagnation is problematic. It might be better than anything else that's been tried, but that doesn't mean as much when not much else has been tried for quite a while.

There are other factors involved. There's really easy migration to Australia which has a stronger economy, it's common for people to have other passports so it's easier to move elsewhere because of that too, there's less of a belief that we're the greatest country in the world that could bias American emigration. America is also a big place, so people can move around within the country fairly easily if conditions for any particular group of workers in any particular place is bad, which isn't the case here.

It's not quite as simplistic as you make it seem.

If people are willing to accept an increased risk of dying for a dollar value, that means they don't value their life infinitely. If they did, no amount of money would be worth an overall increased chance of dying.

A large part of learning how to lucid dream is learning what clues there are that you might be dreaming, and making it a habit to check whether or not you're dreaming. I think the idea when it comes to avoiding the biases is learning to identify when and how you're making these biases. Go through the list of biases and think of specific examples from the past few days for as many of them as possible, and check if they've been affecting you. Keep repeating this so you learn what it feels like when those biases are affecting you and so you can avoid it in the future. Also make it a habit to check your reasoning before committing to decisions, to see if you can identify any biases soon after they've been committed and before they can do any damage. This is all speculation. Feel free to ignore any of this advice, especially since I haven't consciously followed it myself.

There are also books that supposedly help with effective decision making, such as Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. I haven't tried any, so I can't recommend any in particular. I'm sure there are recommendations out there.

http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Managerial-Decision-Making-Ba...

I don't like the tone of this sort of piece. The capitalizations and bolding, the oversimplified assertions of "caveman brain" and "rational brain". It probably has valid advice, but it rings quackery alarms.