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Teens have been a monetized commodity since the birth of MTV. This isn't a surprise. After 40 years, this qualifies as a 'murican cultural value.

China has more. They have enough that this is a drop in the bucket. While they might be as blatant and ineffective as Russia by interfering with an election, they want a low profil…

They are already applying this to foreigners when selecting possible people to track, monitor, or engage.

So apple is paying the maker of android to stay in business. Cute.

Hydrogen has hard risks, and high costs. Density. Corrosion. Tunneling/leaking. A new trillion-dollar distribution infrastructure to replace the fluid-version we use for petrol. Wh…

Welfare is engineered to fail, and it fails. You can't build a system by American political committee and expect it to actually work. There are known good solutions for poverty tha…

The goal is to open the inner solar system for human habitation and resourcing. I'm betting there is a robot on the craft, and its aiming for Ceres. Lets see if the mounting pedest…

...how well do we use our freedom to choose the illusions we create? -Timbuk 3 Oscar Wilde says: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will …

They could be saved, but I will not speak their rescue here. There is nobody who would ask or hear it. They could have been saved, and still might. I gave them more than they deser…

Paywalled?

Paywalled.

The US is moving that direction too.

I disagree. Disney has money, and all politicians spend at least half of their working hours soliciting money in exchange for the promise of writing laws. It will be extended. The …

This has been on the menu for a long time. At least 3 years. Who is surprised at this?

I see these at a cadence that works with price engineering. I don't believe it. I think it is like "ham supply is constrained this easter" and then they mark up the prices and ther…

Only 1%? My eye. This has smell of Yahoo to it. I bet within 6 months, this goes up toward 10%. I bet they lost their entire data.

The important question: How much money was it worth to Comcast? They have a population of ~136k, comprising 60,503 households. If each currently pays $100/mo for a cable bundle and…

Wars on poverty often become wars on poor people. I was there when Clinton reduced max coverage to 2 years. It was a sentence of lifetime poverty for people who had no option, and …

Link is auto-blocked by security software. Is this a known-misbehaving domain?

The 0.1% unilaterally owns the government. Better than half of all laws are made for them. Where do you think the 0.1% stands on the opioid crisis? It doesn't touch them. It is a p…

Paywalled.

It looked like a way to make a closed ecosystem where there were only a few entrants (users) and the cost of entry was high both economically and in terms of the learning curve. It…

So, they want the password off the list, instead of changing it to something (much much much) more secure? Some variant of "battery horse staple and correct", right?

I wish parents raised children because they love their children, instead of treating them like human cattle. I wish that in-laws were looking to maximize lifelong success of their …

This has implications for the economy of prostitution, and pornography.