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Or the realisation that WE are that corrupt and inept bunch. It's not like government workers are a 'special elite' class...

Information asymmetry sometimes defines an entire market (like salaries!). When you take away that asymmetry you change the market. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, bu…

Right but the same logic applies. Rather than 1 single point of failure you now have millions of mini power generators. The impact of one going is significantly less.

This is similar to the alternate reality counter proof: If alternate realities exist, and we can get to them from this reality, then they are no longer an alternate reality. If we …

There is vastly more generic similarity than difference... racism is never about genetics, it's always about shared (or not) culture. The genetic arguement is completely bogus, sho…

I'm confused about your reference to Australian Aboriginals. The majority of them were decimated by disease and out right violent attack from whites... how are either of those scen…

I know, do you reckon Facebook engineers are sitting awkwardly in a meeting with this comment page up: "Why didn't we think of this!!!?"

The video you linked has competing companies all taking about how good it will be to integrate (valve included)... you are right there is no line like "it will be an open platform"…

Are you shallow? Or is Google's "Intelligence" deep?

But isn't that a pretty common use case? Do people on chat with their nearest and dearest? Or do they chat with a mix of people who they may like or even dislike.

I chat and am "friends" with a whole bunch of people don't really care about. If Google cab automate the pretense of a friendship then great, I can spend more time on my actual fri…

Should we now have an existential crisis when the smart reply is exactly what we were going to say? Should we type it anyway just to teach the machine it was right? Should we save …

But you are conflating two things. The data companies collect on me without me knowing is not related to the data that can be googled on me. Because I know about the later and have…

... but there is no downside for the vast majority... so, winning?

You are saying, from your citation. That the fire department decided to collapse a building with their own personell inside, and without telling any of the surrounding personell...…

That's a strange arguement. That's like saying it's not hysterical to say everyone needs Kevlar, because try being a soldier without Kevlar!? It makes no sense. People who need to …

Could you at least cite the retracted statement? Public knowledge means "really easy to cite" How was it pulled? How did they set up a controlled demolition of a burning building? …

I mean this with full empathy for your situation. It really is that simple. Several months of eating fewer than 800 calories and not going to the gym at all would result in massive…

But it's still simple math. More weight, be more aggressive with brakes. If human truck drivers can do it, then a computer truck with a 360 model of the environment around it can d…

Australia is an American puppet state. Most of Europe is as well. Recall what happened to European airspace when they thought snowden was in the air? I think people in China hold v…

But that's your ideology. Isn't it? I tend to agree with you, but I understand there are places in the world they do not like this. Freedom of expression is not a universal value i…

You can't E2E with a web app?

I see, so we have an arbitrary law around an amoral action, so it's not relevant to the discussion of amoral actions? I don't follow the logic.

Not true at all. An out group hits me, innately I want to hit back. An out group shows me empathy innately I show it back. You would have to learn otherwise. The in-group out-group…