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It’s poorly worded but I believe the OP was using an example where both the right and the left abuse a system for control and not necessarily the greater good. While it’s true that both the left and t…

What exactly do you expect to learn from debating anti-semites, self-proclaimed Nazis, or people that are shouting “hang Mike Pence”? https://youtu.be/Fag0aC_M0_U Today’s news: Joe Bi…

I was referring the absurdity of empathizing with drivers who kill people while texting, drunk, etc. (hence the quotation). What part of that statement do you agree with? But I’ll go further and doubl…

> When a human kills someone with a car it is almost always in a way we can empathize Nonsense. You can empathize with someone texting and killing someone? This whole post reads like an attempt to …

TL;DR Businesses just pass these costs on to their consumers. Businesses have somewhat standard target gross margins, customer acquisition costs (CAC), LTV:CAC ratio, etc. and will determine pricing b…

Antitrust does not discriminate against a single company. If Apple is in violation of antitrust regulations either today or at some point in the future, regardless of how they got there, they would be…

Because more competition in the ad space is invariably better for consumers. The alleged practices at play are illegal because they are known to harm consumers. And this is sufficient to demonstrate …

Interesting, I have never heard this argument before. I don’t think there is a case to be made that the individual entities that make up Google or Facebook couldn’t operate independently. Google Searc…

This is actually pretty explosive news. Several of the ongoing antitrust cases involving the tech giants would require a more relaxed definition than the current antitrust standard which necessita…

I don’t disagree that Walmart is making strides on the online shopping front but I also think they are only fighting for survival/relevance and would not produce anything new or interesting witho…

Some folks in my network are ex-Oracle and my understanding is that the company is run by the CFO and a huge group of MBAs. Any company where the bean counters are at the helm are optimizing for thing…

HP and Oracle don’t exactly represent the heart of Silicon Valley today and what makes it special/unique. I actually think zombie corporations like Oracle, companies that haven’t innovated in dec…

> You don't possess the right to steal or murder, regardless of the existence or lack of a government. You absolutely do, because nothing is preventing you from doing so. Maybe you are referr…

Except this is fact-based article. The issue at hand is that there are widespread claims being made that are completely baseless. They are not substantiated by facts. Videos that are making claims wit…

You have surrendered your natural right to steal or to commit murder--rights that you would possess devoid of a system of governance. These liberties you and others have sacrificed are exchanged for c…

By no means am I arguing that it can’t go off the rails nor am I arguing that it hasn’t in this case. I am responding to the claim that there are zero exceptions (“buts” in this case) to freedom. That…

Hmm I’m guessing that you are thinking of a different theory? Not believing in it in this case would mean not believing in any system of government which, I think we can say with a high degree of conf…

This dogmatic/fundamentalist interpretation of freedom doesn’t make you objective, it makes you an ideologue. There are well-known and widely accepted exceptions to freedom such as curbs on freed…

This question assumes that Standard Oil didn’t engage in anti-competitive practices after they gained a monopoly position which they absolutely did. On the run / don’t have time to send links but…

I appreciate the sentiment about having a fact-based debate but it’s difficult to engage in an argument about the facts when the issue you raised is that you’re annoyed about something. What exactly w…

Google Cloud is very sneaky with their pricing as they don't include the instance itself in the advertised GPU pricing. Here's an instance very comparable in specs (8 vCPU, 30GB RAM, 1 V100…

Great idea. What do you recommend as a good standard/tool we could use to publish benchmarks? We have some CPU/memory-centric instances but our primary focus is on GPUs.

Sorry for the confusion here, we are in the midst of separating out the two products and this is not reflected everywhere yet. Under the CORE section of the interface, you'll find these instance…

Nice catch, typo (the values are correct but the text said "/hour" instead of "/month"). Disclosure: I work on Workstream

The US, like the UK, did a terrible job early on when containment was most critical. Several states are in lockdown now but arguably, the reason for our awful current new cases/death rate is due …

Sweden has by far the highest number of cases/deaths with respect to neighboring countries. Finland has 1/10th of the number of deaths per capita [0]. They are also faring much worse than De…

Yes, many of the GCP products that were launched in the past six months were not shutdown.

GCP has been around for a fraction of the time of Google as a company. It is perfectly valid to have at least some concern here as Google as a company has a long track record of shutting down products…