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Saying that the reason FB is being targeted for anti-trust is that they are simply too successful feels like a vast oversimplification of the situation.

I'm pretty sure they're just referring to the immediate feedback of being able to practice by reading with one hand and playing with the other. You generally wouldn't be able to pl…

I assume the complaint is that it doesn't word wrap so most of the text is cut off.

It may not have had good enough information to tell that she was a cyclist at all, and instead interpreted her to be something static/non-human altogether (in parent's example, a b…

I don't know that I would say contraceptives are the source of unhealthy attitudes towards sex in the US. Prudishness stemming from Western religious influences and the like seems …

> implies anything that encompasses cars. No, I believe that they're talking about the ubiquitous need of a car for any given task. It would be nice if areas were designed such tha…

I think it's okay to have some amount of an echo chamber, they happen more or less naturally just because of who you select to be in your personal sphere of influence, but I think …

Yeah, where did they get that number? As I understand it the FED hasn't met its target 2% inflation rate in years. Edit: It seems I was somewhat mistaken: the FED set the 2% inflat…

There were also plenty of reputable political science models that actually did predict a Trump win, so, it all depends on who you put your faith in.

I agree. Placing a greater burden on the side of the producers to deal with the trash they produce seems like the most logical approach to me. If X company wants to make something …

That's what I was commenting on though; I very well may be wrong, but my understanding was that the weight of things like barbells is measured in pounds-force, not pounds-mass, so …

Wouldn't trying to deadlift more than 400 pounds be the same amount of effort on the moon? Granted, it would have to be that much more massive, so it would certainly LOOK more impr…

More than two months is quite a bit of time to 'figure things out', even by military standards, and I don't see any good reason to deny him access to a lawyer during that process a…

That doesn't really sound like an ethical argument so much as the impetus for it.

Doesn't that still end up being financial? If someone is banned from collecting data and is later found to have been doing so anyway, the most likely recourse is fines, right? Or a…

If companies are duty-bound to act unethically (if legally) for the sake of share holder profits then I think that speaks to a flaw in the system driving these decisions.

I agree that taking the whole channel down for the flag is not the right approach, and I would have thought the "three strikes rule", in any form, would have enough evidence agains…

Dr. Wallingford's blog is one of the few that I make sure to never miss an entry of, it's definitely cool to see him get some recognition on here.

That's fair. Though I will say I don't think any single armed approach to sequestration will be anywhere close to reasonable, so exploring any avenue with decent margins, especiall…

As I understand it a push for more bamboo would be great for this. It's relatively quick growing and useful for a lot of various building materials. You could sequester a lot of CO…

Some sort of carbon capture and storage situation seems more likely at this point, though I haven't yet seen any proposals that I think would get the backing they need to be effect…

I stay completely out of the realm of Twitter and haven't heard of any of this sort of thing short of the little spat with Tomi Lahren. Do you have any more noteworthy examples?

I don't think it has as extreme an impact as the people posting images of a self-service menu imply it does. I will concede that a lot of my aversion to the argument is from the di…

Given the previous reactions to any sort of move by fast food chains toward anything like automation, I can't imagine this won't be picked up as fodder for the "look what happens w…

Those seem to ignore a lot of important details in the story. No mention of the exaggerated and outright falsified accounts of the story? Nor the baseless conspiracy theories about…