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Idea to fix patents: if you obtain a patent that is later shown to be invalid, you should be on the hook for damages you caused to the market.

 

Student loan debt has skyrocketed over the last 10 years:

Once a student takes on this type of loan debt, they cannot get rid of it even in bankruptcy.

Everyone told me when I was a teenager that I HAD to go to college and it was incredibly important for my future. Everyone continues to tell American teenagers that college is the key to a good life.… read more “College Is A Bad Decision For Most People”

 

 

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-salaries-pay-disparities-000557

Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and other big companies want to use their monopoly power to hurt consumers severely to gain more profits. Their lobbyists are pushing hard to allow them to charge different prices for carrying different internet content. This is like your power company charging an extra $1 per hour to watch Fox News instead of CNN.… read more “Net Neutrality is Important”

 

 

I’ve been reading an interesting book, “I am a Strange Loop”. The author is a famous philosopher on the nature of consciousness. The specific bit that I have been most interested by so far is the authors take on what is the nature of a “I”. 

He has pointed out that each of our brains is made up of a separate left hemisphere which controls an eye and an ear, and a right hemisphere which controls the other side.… read more “Marriage”