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Is that you, Dave Smith? :) I cannot believe braindead Biden is a) the candidate, and b) has a very solid chance of beating Trump. The man can hardly get through a sentence. The em…

Yes, FB is a private company and all that. But they have clearly been censoring speech and cannot be protected by common carrier rules, as they are a publisher. This change of desi…

Everyone agrees* that the gov't should at its root fundamental level handle infrastructure. Water, the most essential element to human life, should have been prioritized over over …

Yes, but have the bozos in Sac learned anything? Have we built new water infrastructure to support a population 3x the size vs. when the original, now-ageing infrastructure was bui…

Taking morality out of it for the time-being, taxes serve as an additional barrier to entry for smaller companies; these tech giants have hordes of lawyers and accountants to make …

I agree that the primary cause of all this is government interference regarding barriers to entry. However, did the regulation help insulate these companies against competition in …

There are a lot of problems---namely: debt, cost of living, and third-world immigration---that this generation has to face. That being said, we are still probably the second-riches…

The road and bridge infrastructure in this state is completely falling apart. The water infrastructure was built for a population half or a third of what exists currently, during t…

Whether he happens to be correct or not (a broken clock is right twice a day), Krugman has zero credibility. He has a Nobel Prize, so people listen to him, but the man is a dyed-in…

How many years do people spend in Prussian-model government schools or private schools with mandated State-sponsored curriculum? 12? And the average person isn't imparted enough sk…

Colleges sell themselves as providing remunerative employment training when it suits them, and hide behind this excuse when kids (esp. Humanities majors) can't garner gainful emplo…

Yep, tariffs are probably a bad idea. Obama did those too (his economic ignorance knew no bounds). Two wrongs don't make a right.

It's impossible to tell exactly what would have happened in a bankruptcy, but the entire company would have almost certainly been restructured, which would have meant generally cle…

#thanksobama for throwing taxpayer money at GM, only to have them do their inevitable restructuring a few years later than otherwise.

The ongoing travails of the unnecessary drug war.

This is exactly how I would have imagined a trip would go. $85 billion market cap for a car that can't travel to most areas of the globe at all or with severe inconvenience? Give m…

Right, taxes should be higher on everyone else .

You voice a lot of similar conclusions I've come to, as someone who's mid-level and came through the bootcamp/practical application route. One of my coworkers has a Math/CS degree …

Which would be fine if the companies acknowledged that they are having trouble hiring because they're extremely picky. Exactly this. I'm mid-level, trying to switch jobs. Several f…

The criticism here is that google's leaders and employees have explicitly advocated on behalf of and contributed to leftist causes, which promote the view that taxation should be g…

An example: Facebook removing actual statistics on campus rape (i.e., "hate speech") and kowtowing to the completely false SJW/feminist narrative that 1/4 college women are raped. …

"Soon the scale hit 265. Mr. Cahill started weighing and measuring his food again and stepped up his exercise. He got back down to 235 to 240 pounds. But his weight edged up again,…

ZH may be early and there may be some separation of the wheat from the chaff that one must do, but their general bearish theme resonates as true based on the data. The BLS numbers …

"disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering and political failure" Communists around the world killed between 60 mil…

Neat. Question: what happens if there's a car in back of the Tesla? Does does the Tesla disregard him and whether or not he has time to stop as well? Edit: Certainly the top priori…