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As I've said before, you'll have to ban me then, if you really believe I'm a negative contribution. I'm not going to stop responding in reasonable, human, and direct ways to commen…

Could you tell me what personal attack that would be?

I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely …

That you disagree with my assessment that angry lead-ins to detailed responses to people insulting your things are appropriate, but feel insulting other people's belongings (while …

Firstly, shut your mouth -- you have no business telling me that my computers "suck" when they serve my needs. It doesn't suck and is one of the most pleasant machines I own due to…

The second part of your example is a statement of opinion, not fact -- so it's not really the same thing at all.

I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it. I can only imagine it…

Excellent blog post! And if anyone is looking for the book (like I was), this seems to be a more recent edition (with better availability): https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Wil…

Society is not a force of nature such that its decrees carry the weight of natural law. People can (and often should) resist what society decrees, because it's only through that dy…

Sure, if you force people to behave a certain way, the conflict can be avoided. The problem stems from the fundamental fact that a very small percentage of people are assholes, a f…

> [Subordinates] are used to being dominated and condescended. If you talk to them as respected individuals, you usually get respect back. It also gives more weight to the times yo…

I agree, but poking holes in why they're excluded is important, because it let's you have this exchange -- "You can't argue with the math!" "Well, hold on now, I think you left a w…

> They have relatives, friends, aesthetic preferences, social obligations, religious beliefs, and other things that "do not compute" in mathematical models. They compute fine -- mo…

I think it takes less than most of us imagine -- but more than most of us are capable of organizing. If you wanted to build complexes to stimulate the economy, you'd probably need …

> Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. Here's some anecdata: I've been that shitbag without integrity, it's not actually any easier. (I act…

People have been trying that, for at least a few decades. Do facts like almost every American wants a more fair system change it? No, because the governing structure has itself bee…

> We frequently receive reports from community activists and other social media users who were blocked from commenting on an agency’s Facebook page, or prevented from contributing …

> If you were correct, then women should have economic parity with men. They don't. Every statistic I've seen seems to indicate that modulo life choices that seem correlated with g…

Late reply, but I think there's a second harm to throwing out generalists in addition to what you outline: Specialists aren't as good as generalists at integrating the work of spec…

If you look at per energy expenditure, I'd argue that "webcams for pets" or "delivery for X" are probably delivering more value per unit energy used, because of relative efficiency…

I think the implication is that "free" is being quoted from elsewhere and the author doesn't necessarily agree that it is without cost just because such cost is not denominated in …

So Google deployed malware against... tens of millions of people?... in order to steal confidential data for profit, by bypassing security mechanisms on those devices as they inter…

That was connecting on to the previous paragraph, and contrasting with pre-authorization through a payment network -- I meant a direct transfer of currency from customer to merchan…

Digital currency isn't competing with credit card networks, it's competing with ACH. ACH transfers take days; wire transfers take minutes to hours and cost tens of dollars. There's…