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For how long will Americans blame FB for the rise of Trump? The subject of the article is accurately summarized by the headline, and this isn't it. The information systems that peo…

With traditional (coal, gas, nuclear) electrical power generation, one unit of energy is delivered to your wall socket by dumping about two units of heat directly into the environm…

I'll try, I guess. Respectfully suggest you consider the root comment here with these guidelines ("name-calling") in mind.

It has little to do with intelligence. It has mostly to do with not having the first clue how to tell the difference between a legitimate attempt at dialog and ideologically-motiva…

"Patriarchy is a model whose name alone..." is ad hominem. Tone policing ("...you're really going above and beyond with the contempt...") is ad hominem. In the sense that both shif…

...there's a lot of history and context around the form of argument from patriarchy in spaces where men are discussing the issues that affect us. There is not. This is a shortcomin…

Patriarchy is a model whose name alone... Hearing the name doesn't make you an expert. The world isn't so systematic; history and context matter. There's quite a lot of study and l…

What a dreadful noise! I wonder if there's a good reason so much cold-war detritus is so ominous, so foreboding, and so nerve-wracking in its design, character and presence. Maybe …

The name "shortwave" is ill-considered and misleading but there's no changing it now.

Mint 18.2 ran like a champ on my work desktop. This is an older Dell XPS 8300. It has a 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GBs of RAM, and an AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphic…

I don't see how this would work when the URL lists are full of regexps etc. If you could make it work, you'd would wind up with some sort of source file of domains, parsed at build…

...the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government[1]. Where does that number need to be in order to silence the socialist rabble-rousers? 90%? 95%?…

The "Hollywood Ten" screenwriters who were blacklisted by the film industry (private employers making employment decisions!) were, in fact, members of the Communist Party USA... Ye…

The question in my mind is: Does an opinion suddenly become a "thought crime" if expressing it publicly might get you fired from a non-governmental employer? The consequences don't…

I don't know that much about McCarthyism but I think it's safe to guess that you know less. It was considered a witch hunt because nobody cared about facts or evidence, the spectac…

But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion. This has always been true and I can't understand how you would imagine it was ever otherwise.

Textbook thoughtcrime punishment. People are fired for exhibiting corrosive, counterproductive, or otherwise bad attitudes every day. Are they all victims of "textbook thoughtcrime…

I'm established now. I own a great company. I love my work and have happy customers and supportive people in my life. So I can see straight through the resentment for what it is...…

...at a certain point, the tech industry’s chemical suppliers were enlisting family members to pay for IEEE memberships to help vote down new environmental measures. Nothing to see…

"Micro-particles" might also be misleading. The article spells it out: The pieces of plastic are not necessarily floating bottles, bags, and buoys, but teeny-tiny pieces of plastic…

I wish more commenters would read the article. It's not about garden-variety, dictionary-definition, transient, intermittent, universially-felt-at-some-point sort of "loneliness" m…

You just can't keep up with the craziness. It feels like he's trying to distract the TV news from something.

As far as I can tell, we're talking here about reversing a cryptographic hash and sifting the one true master password out from the much more numerous hash collisions. Do you reall…