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Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans …

That's a slightly "luddite" interpretation. The bus conductor job-class was outmoded by technology. More jobs are created at a higher technology level. This is how society has prog…

Seconded. Don't waste life wrangling raw PDF.

Privacy concerns are for everyone, not just rich people. Please don't bring culture wars into this.

This is absurdly wrong. The average working person's pension is heavily invested in stocks.

I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capital…

I'm with you, I try and use a different word whilst keeping it plausibly common, it's part of the cerebral challenge. Using an algorithmic approach is efficient but not "fun". Targ…

It's not about being offended, it's about having control. The power to change words, and what that represents.

It's Bing.

DDG is Bing, they use its API to get the search results. They augment it with other sources to provide the "value added" part, but that's a tiny part. DDG doesn't want you to know …

Business Insider is not a credible news source, although the paywalled Times (UK) seems to be reporting it too.

In particular the posts from /r/politics which hit the front page are often Q-anon tier; absurd misinformation and extremist rhetoric. But yes the smaller sub-reddits can be good.

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I think people here are underestimating how difficult it is to implement is_deleted in a production system. Literally EVERY query has to be rewritten to reflect the new database sc…

"Republicans have repeatedly claimed for over a decade now that the Democrats run an international child sex trafficking network" You're referring to Qanon type people? They are fr…

To clarify, if there is a fixed div at top or bottom of page, then pressing space scrolls too far, missing a paragraph of text.

Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?

A great article which is ruined by politicising it as a "rightwing problem". Everything the author identifies applies equally to rhetoric from the left, as anyone who has spent tim…

Many websites now have a fixed div at the top or bottom of the page. The "spacebar to scroll a page" feature of most browsers is broken on these pages. It uses a naive method of sc…