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Bad faith moderation is why this site is a ghost town. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/146144481666247... How's that for upping the level of discourse?

Arright, calm down Tipper. Let's not pretend Youtube is edgy or "Rock and Roll". Its the most banal money farm ever created. Let's focus on how they're driving content creators to …

we had that. It was called livejournal. And everyone stopped using it.

Funny, I thought the lesson here is that if you take away the barriers to the entry, all regulation, most of the financial burden, and provide nearly complete anonymity for dissemi…

In Chicago I saw first hand how it turned the Mayor into everyone's favorite punching bag: Housing prices go up. Developers move in and scoop up desirable properties, remodel the k…

If you're the best engineer for a company who's bottom line is not direct sales of engineered products you are a middle tier or bottom tier engineer on the open market. You're the …

And... now you understand how China feels about American tariffs?

Oh, we've had very different experiences relating to project management! I've never had a PM that was a former developer, and in my world senior developers usually act as solution …

I thought I emphasized the point pretty well: Get involved in the process if you're managing a team of developers and don't just look at metrics. They can be misleading if there is…

"Don't be afraid to filter people out, it happens that some beginners take a toll on the time of the team, because they develop errors / don't test code." I would put a huge caveat…

Sorry, that should have been followed with an, "As they do in China." In the US its more like, "report the issue and watch US authorities sit on it and do fuck all"

When US intelligence goals directly oppose US business goals then the enemy has already won.

Perhaps US police have shoved too many of these cases under the rug and now they need a scape goat because it is becoming too obvious that US companies cannot bribe, influence, or …

If a spy leaves his disguise in my trash can and I take it to the police the spy exposed themselves. Taking steps to intimidate a citizen because your spy screwed up is an act of w…

There is one hitch and it’s a doozy. This invasive targeting may be neutralized by market forces when it comes to buying dish soap but it’s proven frighteningly effective in swayin…

Bonesaw is, indeed, reeeaaaaaddyyyy

Title is misleading: Article is about how Facebook facilitates authoritarian governments in silencing dissidents: even poor or ill equipped ones. The title leads you to believe Fac…

If it’s legal to drink alcohol and poison yourself it’s no different than pouring arsenic in the water supply and poisoning everyone right?

Speaking of platforms: In the Bernstein timeline someone went to Stockholm and convinced Notch that a cross between Steam and Kiva kicks off the next cultural revolution and all we…

Probably buying it above market price and therein lies the problem

It’s shorthand for a whole range of economic factors, housing costs, school quality, local politics, etc. Most big US cities have had waves of immigration that concentrate themselv…

It is oddly silent on what government institutions MUST do within 48 hours...

You're telling me that an American lied about the reasons for going to war!? Next you're gonna tell me it was just a plot by wealthy white men to enrich themselves by subverting a …