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Let's put aside the argument of whether the role women play as familial caretakers is "genetically wired" or encouraged by cultural norms. There is undeniably a huge genetic difference between men and women that leads to all sorts of different outcomes in health, athletics, etc. That IS the perfectly reasonable and logical reasonable to discriminate on the basis of sex, which we do all the time.

You are begging the question. "Social consensus" is literally the same thing market value.

Gold, based on its practical uses, should have a much lower value as well--but naysayers have been proven wrong since time immemorial. I think the market will continue to stay irrational much longer than we will be alive.

Well not only would banks be far less profitable, but the entire modern economy would grind to halt. I think that's the real problem with 100% reserve banking--it's disingenuous to cast it as less profit for banks.

So..what the TPP was supposed to accomplish? At least before Trump's bumbling decision to withdraw to score rhetorical points with his base. Pretty sure think tanks are several moves ahead of Trump, if he even plans out his moves at all.

Another commenter included a source: https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/waldorf-association-sc.... The article gives the rate of non-medical exemptions (for immunizations) for some Waldorf schools, but doesn't give the state average for NMEs (which, as an aside, seems to have been legislated away in California recently). Nevertheless, the numbers are over 50% which seem staggeringly high for an exemption rate. It's also not surprising that a school that embraces technological asceticism has its share of parents who embrace the anti-vax movement.

What? It's far more practical to reteach his wife the language she lost, which also happens to be his first language AND the primary language of the country they live it.

Most actions disproportionately affect the poor and middle class--that doesn't mean we shouldn't take them. Although it doesn't always work out in practice, ideally, other wealth redistribution policies should blunt the impact of said actions. That said, $300m is not very much, so it seems largely like a symbolic gesture.

Ethics aside, octopuses also seem like a great candidate for "domestication" a la the Russian domestication of the silver fox. Except rather than select for the most docile offspring, selecting for the cleverest. With their relatively short lifespans, one could probably achieve some success in a relatively short amount of time.

Corporations are more multicellular organisms than cancer. They are capable of achieving far more than a single cell or person, for better or for worse.

No, he has to pay taxes on the BTC he DID convert to fiat. He does get to write off the losses of the alt-coins but since he hasn't yet realized those losses (and since they're in a different fiscal year), he's pretty well fucked.

EDIT: even if he didn't convert to fiat, the exchange of BTC for an alt-coin is a taxable event. That makes sense because otherwise you could, in theory, convert to a dollar-pegged crypto like Tether and defer taxes indefinitely.

Those are all real risks of homeownership that we can't just handwave away with misguided NIMBY legislation. The first step is coming to grips with the reality that homeownership isn't a magical risk-free investment.

Aesthetic reasons are the worst reason to be anti-urban.

Which is just an arbitrary number the government came up with because zero is obviously unreasonable for lead workers..

First of all, you're missing the point of the article. Softbank is increasing its stake in Uber, which can only be a good thing, even if it's a markdown from its last preferred round.

Second of all, you bandy around private like it's a bad thing. The reason why these companies are successful is because they pioneered a much more better solution than the alternatives. Take, for example the public service Access-a-Ride [1]. This is the kind of "quality" you get without competition and innovation.

[1]: https://longreads.com/2017/09/01/on-nycs-paratransit-fightin...

Awful on the entire East Coast. Hot and overbearingly humid.

Which would be great if the UK were Japan. But it's not.

You still haven't made a case that Thiel's actions are unethical.

Ah the good old Closeout Sale con.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome is extremely common in high achievers--you're not alone.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that kind of person. The problem arises when you mix the two types of people in a demanding environment where more than the status quo is expected (e.g., at a startup). If you want to coast, stick to defense.