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Niether. It will probably improve our lives in many ways, make them worse in many others. Complicate some things and simplify others. In other words like every other technology. Al…

Every generation goes through the "kids these days" phase, everything new isn't as good as it was "back in my day." Add to this, as the author points out, a neo-ludism around the t…

I'm sure those wise people you mentioned would also be wise enough to see through a false choice like that. Good thing for us all that it isn't an either/or. Fortunately some peopl…

Think of all the great innovations that have come from people who realized that doing hard stuff is hard so don't try.

As Warren Buffet said: "In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine." So to answer the question posed, if you are trying to make…

I think the author of this article kind of missed the points being made by Hoffman. For instance, he asks: "But how did the icon come to look like a snake in the first place?" Sort…

This same case involved, in addition to Wikimedia, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, PEN American Center (a writers g…

The article details the gymnastics required, required only of gay couples, to approximate those rights. And after all the gymnastics, they and only they had to endure, they ended u…

Not that long ago people tried to argue that marriage equality wasn't needed to protect basic rights of individuals involved. They just needed to use contracts/adoption/etc. This i…

Very Interesting response to this from Tim O'reilly: https://medium.com/@timoreilly/getting-over-taxis-79849b3a42...

I can only be a sample size of one, but I've lived in countries where tipping is the norm and in countries where it's non-existent. My own experience is that service is more averag…

I may have misread. But what I took from it was the assertion that because of how hyperlinks work, the act of following them to sites we have no relationship creates the needs for …

Your business model is not my moral obligation.

I have to wonder how much this was influenced by Snowden's revelations about the extent to which the NSA was vacuuming up data. It must have been on the EU courts mind.

Wouldn't it be funny if they nudge it off its current course, onto a collision course with us? No, actually not that funny.

One thing I can't find, given this goes back to EU rules would pulling out of France be enough? I hope so, because if it's EU wide or could be EU wide I have no idea what they woul…

This sort of thing has to be remembered next time you hear that prosecutors need broadly worded statutes to have the tools to go after the bad guys. When people bring up criticisms…

I'm not sure how that relates to the point being made. The insecurity comes from someone already having physical control of your machine, and if you had alowed saving of your maste…