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I think in China you can say whatever you want about anything, you just can't criticize the government. In the US you can criticize the government but can't say whatever you want a…

Apple is only a couple of Bad iPhone designs away from being irrelevant. Everything you are saying is from a shareholder perspective, Apple does not have a monopoly like Google doe…

That's true, but I don't think Apple has "Fuck you" money. Google definitely has that type of cash. It has near infinite recurring revenue. They don't even need to do anything with…

Because google is essentially a monopoly. Almost nobody uses anything else. Because of this monopoly and all the advertising revenue, Google effectively has "infinite money" and us…

US is not a democracy, it's a republic AFAIK. The design philosophy behind the architechture of US Government is explicitly that it is not a democracy.

I think they are also popular in Canada. You can get various versions of the Huawei P20 through carriers here. I don't regard them as spy devices. I think it's mostly a US thing.

>They treat it as the front page of Facebook. yes, well said. I find this especially annoying. They also nag me to install or try something, and the only thing that the nag message…

I don't doubt that this would eventually be the case, people always learn to game the system eventually.

If this means I don't have to sit through annoying whiteboard interviews, or talk to HR bots, and all i have to do is just send them a link to my brainscan on linked in. Nice!

I think it is better-er than Java and the JVM and they have stewarded their language much better than Java, and now Java borrows heavily from C#. I think they will win in the long …

I don't think the poster you're replying to had that in mind. I think it was more a case of 'you catch more bees with honey' rather than draw the guy's ire unnecessarily, just make…

Why is the democratic decision to leave not an "adult" decision? To conduct the referendum and then not abide by the result would absolutely be undemocratic. The UK is already drag…

This is me with my tinfoil hat on, but I think the real reason behind the push to get women into tech is to drive down wages by growing the labor pool. That's the real reason IMO t…

>one of the women in the article referenced a boss commenting about her breasts This is not a problem that's unique to STEM or CS or anything like that though. >another talked abou…

I don't think you can honestly argue that there is as significant an effort to get men into Nursing as there is to get women into programming.

>to the difficulties they had getting/staying in the field despite having a strong desire to be there/here Why isn't it ok that they just aren't interested in it? Women have agency…

I think the main point is not to get bogged down in whether or not phone books are this or that, or how legacy media relates to the internet era etc. The point i'm making is not : …

>People blocked on Twitter are free to host their own websites with their own speech. On paper this is true, but network effects mean you won't be able to interact with the general…

Example: You can't shut off somebody's electricity or water because they are a bad person, or have expressed unorthodox opinions. But you can shut off their twitter, their email, t…

Probably because it helps people? If it is useful in helping people to not harm themselves and others then I don't see anything wrong with that.

I suppose the exception could be rare earth metals, asteroids which contain them in sufficient quantities might be worth going after.

This is when the government had a vision and the nation had a collective aspiration. Now we can't even imagine such a thing. Politicians have no vision and there is no collective a…

Network effects really, that and name familiarity possibly?

Nobody would administer a loan for $500 though, the juice isn't worth the squeeze for financial institutions

The law is written assuming that it won't be abused even despite it being ripe for abuse.