28/Mark Zuckerberg, though he wouldn't make good politician, is a good and decent fellow, and does not deserve most of the crap he gets.
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37/Basketball requires the most intelligence of any of the popular team spectator sports.
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38/Writing & arguing are actually more important skills for the business world than math, but humanities classes fail to teach these well.
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39/Below the college level, math is a lot more about hard work than natural ability, on the margin.
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40/Modern mainstream academic economics is right to use highly stylized mathematical models, even if it personally annoys me.
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41/Within reasonable limits, minimum wages do essentially nothing to help or hurt workers, and are mostly a symbolic gesture.
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42/The "distracted boyfriend" meme was never funny. The "galaxy brain" meme continues to be funny.
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44/Texas is a progressive civilization, and also has some of the lowest levels of racism on the planet.
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45/China would beat the U.S. if the two fought a war right now, unless it was a full nuclear exchange.
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46/Racism shouldn't be treated like a sin, or a taint to be purged, but as a chronic endemic disease to be managed and minimized.
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47/Idealistic youth movements are valuable for their own sake, independent of whatever change they may actually cause.
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48/Final Fantasy IV was the best Final Fantasy.
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49/Paul Krugman is actually right most of the time.
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50/With a year to prepare and a $10M budget, I could defeat Spider-Man.
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51/Alice in Chains was one of the all-time great blues bands.
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52/The Oxford comma should usually be used, but occasionally should be omitted for stylistic reasons.
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53/Standard fiction is usually a less realistic depiction of human interaction than science fiction.
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54/Cultural appropriation is good almost all of the time.
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55/Open-plan offices are nice, as are crowded trains and capsule hotels.
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56/While social science generally won't be as precisely predictive as natural science, there's no conceptual difference between the two.
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57/Color-saturated photography is generally harder to do well than black-and-white, but when done well is better.
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58/Following people you disagree with on Twitter will tend to harden your beliefs rather than change them. (But I do it anyway.)
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60/It seems like there's a good chance that gravity is not a true force, but something akin to quantum degeneracy pressure.
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61/Spanish, especially Mexican Spanish, is the most beautiful-sounding language. (Sorry, French!)
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62/The government should subsidize pet ownership.
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63/Most problems in the world are no one's fault, and cannot be solved by placing blame or attacking a person or group of people. (end)
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