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What’s The Most Expensive Thing You Can Find On Amazon?
This week, Amazon added (absurdly expensive) commemorative coins to the long list of things you can buy at from its sprawling online bazaar. And while none of us is going to go drop a couple mil on a coin — even with free shipping — it got us to thinking: what’s the most expensive item…
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What Would Change If Politicians Wrote Laws Based On Internet Polls?
A new US political party, designed by software devs and engineers, is joining the race in California. If elected, PlaceAVote’s Congressional candidates vow to decide on every bill based on the majority vote of their constituents — as measured via online polling. Could that sort of direct, digital democracy improve how Congress works? Would it…
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Should Your Driverless Car Kill You To Save Two Other People?
There’s a train speeding down the tracks towards five innocent people who will never get away in time. You can save them by pulling a switch, but it will kill another person on a different track. It’s a thought experiment people have debated for ages, but it’s about to become a real dilemma when we…
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Would You Have Sex With A Robot?
Time and time again, humans have proved their willingness to make the beast with two backs with a cornucopia of inanimate objects. But what happens when that inanimate object starts to, you know, animate (albeit mechanically)? Yep, it’s time to talk about robot sex.