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There's a difference between "government sources" for hard facts (CDC), facts about the world (e.g. DoJ travel warnings, CIA factbook, DoE energy savings tips), for facts about the…

Google wants to avoid editorializing, and be able to throw their hands up and say "not our fault!" due to the plausible deniability of "algorithms". They can't pull that off anymor…

> Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interperson…

Great comment. Agree with you on the solutions (sourcing). I don't have a clearly defined political identity, so, mostly by accident at first, I tried changing my own ideology. I d…

When your views are so contrary to HN-orthodoxy as well as societal orthodoxy, you can't just debate with a quip (like yours).

> It literally cannot prescribe complex social roles It absolutely can. Evolutionary psychology is science, and it's based on the scientific method (ironically, unlike the sociolog…

Your comment is the epitome of social-justice dogma. > marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. Learn the difference between positive…

Except dystopia isn't "everyone lives in a bad, mean world". It's societal dislocation. For some, the dystopia is real, right now. For others, it never will be.

These are often not kids of the lower-classes, who are more likely to end up on the streets caught up in crime than in their bedroom playing video games. It's the middle or even up…

Take away their video games and drugs, and see what you end up with. Their video game addiction is obviously a sign of deep, fundamental and overwhelming distress. I think you're g…

> But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on". Is that a good thing? Is it something we should p…

The main downside is for the children. Believe me, you would not want to be the child of such a man or such a woman.[0] This is worse than lack of iodine, lead in the pipes, or con…

Partly because the German currency is severely undervalued for its economy (because it's held down by the other eurozone countries), favoring exports. In a sense, the other eurozon…

That doesn't take into account the fact that (through no fault of their own, and meriting no shame), single parents are pretty systematically worse statistically than bioparents in…

Had to make another comment, since I reached the length limit. > to jocks in high school Also keep in mind that seeing everything under the lens of "power" is deeply misguided. You…

> No. That's a bizarre concept concocted by angry people on the Internet who have overdosed on Tumblr, attempted to derive a first-principles explanation for why people appear to b…

The US has (Politifact, Snopes, etc). Many countries just don't have well-known companies doing this.

> to every other in a thread You're misrepresenting. You: If he cuts back on foreign intervention, this extraordinary emphasis on "rebuilding" our military (whatever that means giv…

> The only justification they have to be frustrated is if they expected 'enjoy middle class life' to be the normal outcome of having a job, which is the essence of privilege That's…

"Privilege" is an original-sin like concept concocted entirely by sheltered sociologists who don't understand how to do science. It was predictable that they would come up with suc…

Would it not be the same argument as GMOs, that we don't understand the consequences enough and therefore shouldn't be used? N. Taleb has quite a detailed critique of GMOs, I'm won…

Every media is biased, especially TV since it's so segregated by ideology. The problem is people being emotionally invested and biased. Many Trump supporters will look at the Polit…

Then what is your post replying to? A poster above said that Trump's military spending shows he's a warmonger, and I said it's well known to anyone who even remotely followed the e…

That may be your adblock/noscript, but: > This feature isn't available to everyone yet. Really refers to the fact that Facebook is partnering with mainstream media in each individu…