Victor Ganata

"The chief logical mistake we make is something called the Lump of Labor Fallacy: the erroneous notion that there is only so much work to be done and that no one can get a job without taking one from someone else. It’s an understandable assumption. After all, with other types of market transactions, when the supply goes up, the price falls. If there were suddenly a whole lot more oranges, we’d expect the price of oranges to fall or the number of oranges that went uneaten to surge." - Victor Ganata

"Environmentally, immigration tends to be less damaging than other forms of growth, because it doesn’t add to the number of people on earth and often shifts people to more environmentally friendly jurisdictions." - Victor Ganata

(via Jennifer Ouellette https://plus.google.com/u... ) - Victor Ganata

"Am I claiming that Democratic presidents were responsible for all this job creation? No, not at all, nor do I need to. The point, instead, is that their policies didn’t prevent a lot of employment growth. That is, what you learn from both national experience and the California story is that you can raise taxes on the rich and expand access to health care without killing the economy." - Victor Ganata

The day we call The Engularity. - Micah

Going by the numbers in Wikipedia, the U.S. had passed England and Wales in population by about 1840. So presumably English-speakers outside of England outnumbered English-speakers inside of England at some point before then. - John (bird whisperer)

The Engception! - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

The population density in some of those places have me like O.O. Especially since people from some of those +10K/sq. mile places complain that LA has too many people. - Anika

HAHAHA http://la.curbed.com/archive... - Anika

Also, I'm pretty sure all those people who are saying that city limits are 'arbitrary' or 'random' don't actually live in LA proper, but tell people they live in LA anyway. *giggles* - Anika

So my odds are good? :) - Greg GuitarBuster

:D You're gonna need a hell of a lot more buffoonery first ;) - Victor Ganata

Related: Is there an evil, goateed version of you somewhere in the multiverse? - 2010 Jun 29 http://io9.com/5573351... - Victor Ganata

Sounds like a pot boiler I could get into. - Micah

wow, how many years has it been? - Halil

I don't believe it. - Joe

hhahahahaha - Steve C, Team Marina

Is it wrong I can picture t-ra doing this in her local pub :) - Steve C, Team Marina

^ totally - Marie

You can, it's called 'slapping'.... pretty much the same message though (as I understand it) - Ken Gidley

Interesting piece. The research looks at right brain/left brain usage in dogs. http://www.cell.com/current... - Joe

tedcruz.com displays this message: "Support President Obama. Immigration Reform Now!" http://tedcruz.com #TeachMeHowToInternet - Victor Ganata

:( - AHnix (Anna Haro)

If that had happened, the Zentradi would have joined Earth. - Steven Perez

I'd watch the hell out of that. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

"We demonstrate that narcissism in children is cultivated by parental overvaluation: parents believing their child to be more special and more entitled than others. In contrast, high self-esteem in children is cultivated by parental warmth: parents expressing affection and appreciation toward their child. These findings show that narcissism is partly rooted in early socialization experiences, and suggest that parent-training interventions can help curtail narcissistic development and reduce its costs for society." - Victor Ganata

How to Raise a Narcissist - Medscape News - 2015 Mar 13 http://www.medscape.com/viewart... - Victor Ganata

Rio 2016. - Anika

Not as weird as holding the Winter Olympics in a Southern Hemisphere city during winter in the Northern Hemisphere would be... - Spidra Webster

Global warming has its advantages.. - CW

Sydney Australia was in September I think. - Joe

Source: Reddit AMA http://www.reddit.com/r... - Victor Ganata

It's a sensitive subject. - Micah

As Johnathan stated, lots of apps don't like Case-sensative Journaled. - CW

Tangentially: I like how frenf.it lets you like comments. - Victor Ganata

LOL - John (bird whisperer)

MS is trying to rebrand it and hoping nobody notices. It won't be called Internet Explorer when Windows 10 comes out this summer. - DB, Lil LB's Dad

I use uBlock in Chrome. I went to a newspaper site in IE and it must have taken 30 seconds to load the front page and then popped up a video ad. Seriously, this is why. - Eric - Final Countdown

This is way scarier than Ebola - Victor Ganata

"Another round of tests will be offered May 5 for people known to have been exposed to TB during the spring semester. It can take up to eight weeks for TB to give a positive test result, according to health officials." - Steve C, Team Marina

When the nukes come raining down, the very last vestige of the U.S. federal government will be the USPS. - Victor Ganata

LOL, I forgot that part. "30 minutes or else!" - Victor Ganata

"Not pooping yet, huh? Crank up the juice." - Victor Ganata

electrical stimulation of what? - Todd Hoff

The colon, I think http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... - Victor Ganata

There might be other targets - Victor Ganata

re: University student, Honor Committee member Martese Johnson arrested - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article... - Victor Ganata

If the article under that headline doesn't consist solely of the word "Duh", I will be very disappointed. - DJF

A bouncer at the local bar refuses to let Johnson in because of "some discrepancies about his ID." Alcohol and Beverage Control officers then detain him and beat the shit out of him. - Victor Ganata

This is messed up. - DB, Lil LB's Dad

Illinois, of course. What a way to go down. - Victor Ganata

MySpace truly reinvented itself. Found a new niche. Realized it couldn't compete with Facebook so it stopped trying to. - DB, Lil LB's Dad