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Easy. We don't "allow" things to happen. Things happen. Nobody went around the room and asked everyone if they could give money to facebook.

Outcome 1 is not a bad thing, it's incredibly good.

Uber wants to replace their drivers with self-driving cars. They've always been very open about this.

Which are by definition, the areas that matter to most people.

That's how patent licensing works (albeit a comically overaggressive caricature). Do you fundamentally oppose the concept of patents or do you think Microsoft is doing something el…

Most of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.

Twitter and Linkedin are huge competitors.

Sounds identical to the arguments MS used back in the 90s. They lost.

Conversely, you old people grew up in a disconnected, technologically backwards society and you've learned your whole lives that electronic communication is something to be feared.…

Because the people who do it don't think of it as giving up privacy and personal space. If your partner moved in with you, would you call that "giving up half your house"?

I think you have a twisted, corporate definition of "good".

If you see the appeal as only "looking for content," we are glad you stay out.

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

No, people think that because it's bigger than everything else put together, the fountainhead of the site's culture, and is the source of virtually everything notable that's ever h…

There certainly aren't many good ones. And even if you don't care about the quality of comedy, any layman can compare the comedy industry to another industry that does have such pr…

I don't feel deprived of comedy in general because anyone can redistribute some list of a few hundred jokes without repercussion. Good comedy, however, is hard to come by. I've hea…

They are very much needed - just ask anyone who tries to go without. If they wouldn't be interested in doing business without the legal framework that currently exists, why is that…

Not even close. Trains would be quite useless if they did not have a lot of mass and kinetic energy. People should already strive to not be bigots regardless of what google does or…

No. It's not google's fault people are bigots.

One factor was an attempt to counter the GIFT ( http://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2004/03/19 ) by preventing anonymity.

Interestingly enough, in aviation you do see checklists with dozens or even hundreds of items that need to be "clicked" every time, and incredibly complicated UIs that take a huge …

Contrarianism is a bit strong. I'd say bullshit detector. It's a natural response to the original author blindly praising one method while ignoring all its flaws.

That's the whole point of open source. If a developer abandons a project, someone else can pick it up and keep it going. And if you disagree with some of the developer's choices, y…