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> • Often don’t get a voice in major decisions – even when you “know the right answer” I'm not sure if the use of quotes here is intended to imply one doesn't actually know the right answ…

rotenone is no longer certified in america as a pesticide [other than to kill fish]. May seem like nit, but it was a very dangerous pesticide and citing it as an organic pesticide might incorrectly le…

Yes, I pay $900 for a "smart tv" that locks me into their shitty apps. I buy an echo show and am now in the middle of some war. If you bought an iPod you were locked in to their store. fuck …

Why do people keep focusing on which company to blame. It's not a Amazon VS Google issue. It's a Tech-Company VS Consumer problem. If you give me a shitty experience because you want to domi…

Yes, but the point is, if you just bring your laptop with you then you get a fully working experience without all this bullshit. If I watch TV on my laptop, I don't have to worry about sticks and…

Sounds like YouTube is due for an effective competitor. I see plenty of free porn sites offering reliable quality video streaming, so I don't know what we're waiting for.

Oversimplified. Largely, the internet has reduced the profitability of distributing facts because it gives them all away for free (how much can you learn online that you used to have to pay for? encyc…

I think his point is that "veneer of rationality" almost serves solely as ad-hominem, because there is no way to establish which side is truly rational other than through debate itself.

I notice you didn't answer my question.

I'm confused by your last sentence. How else can we decide which side or sides is/are being demeaned/marginalized other than intellectual debate?

I think the policy of flagging without providing an explanation is becoming a problem on contentious issues. It allows a minority to have disproportionate influence on a discussion. I think there are …

I'd like to point out that there is solid science that suggests there are, on average, physiological differences between gay and straight men (possibly women too, but I'm less versed in this…

Worth considering: I think the reason this topic is so hot is not because of the study, but the "What if other people use this as a justification for X?" fear. For example, if it turns out t…

Meh, garbage. I always see these things that are significantly off, by like $60,000 or more. You're not asking the important questions that relate to earnings: - Were you born in America or has y…

Perhaps the solution is for the new policy to be that these datasets be kept online (e.g. gcloud) with public, anonymous read-only users. Then the entire problem is solved. This is already done with a…

If you call that Orwellian then I think you need to use your imagination a little. This company has most of my passwords, my emails, my 2-factor, the accounts to which I reset my bank/investments…

I agree Facebook isn't a great example of a monopoly. But consider Google. As it stands google is very much a monopoly in the sense that Microsoft was. The power google has to do good/bad is…

I guess my question is, how to we bring this concept out of the "conspiracy-theory" realm into something demonstrably true/false?

do you have any sources for these claims?

Just a heads up to those of you with the most pessimistic views of America, you're shooting yourself in the foot when you fall on hyperbole. For somebody in the middle such as myself, if you want…

I think that's dismissive. I think the stability of PHP to not change too rapidly has made it very attractive compared to the alternatives, as well as the documentation. When you look at why JS l…

I think there is merit in what he says, and it kind of explains why the hot/sexy languages (Ruby, Node, Go) seem to be outsurvived by the Javas/PHPs of the world

Snowden gives a really solid interview every time. Very polished. I'm interested that he called out the idea of "deep state." He defines it as political forces that outlast a presidency…

Worth considering: I think the reason this topic is so hot is not because of the study, but the "What if other people use this as a justification for X?" fear. For example, if it turns out t…

I sense a lot of dismissive response, mostly it seems from people who didn't read the article. For what it's worth, of my friends who did psychedelics, they were much more likely (even the …

So I'm 31, and I've had what you describe on-and-off for a long time. However, I don't have it for things I actually enjoy doing (e.g. solving some puzzle, playing a video game, helping…

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I think unfortunately some great ideas are coming out of the mouth of a figure who makes himself incredibly unlikable and may ultimately backfire in the court of public opinion (e.g. Al Gore, Assange)…