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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ―Arthur C. Clarke Wikipedia has several articles about these phenomena (e.g., information theory, thermodyna…

I'm not sure what you think religion is. But this is not religion, nor is it baseless. In fact, the opposite. This is ordinary, empirical science.

This article, that came out today, shows to what degree advertising is a cancer: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3naek/how-to-make-a-phon...

If nothing else in your life gave you the idea to buy something but an advertisement did, it's not your idea to buy the thing. I needed a new chair because the one I used to have g…

You're not describing an advertisement, you're describing a listing in a business index like a phonebook or a classifieds section. You don't have to buy ads to show up in a Google …

> Good thing there's no authority telling us why we exist and we're each free to decide for ourselves. You aren't. Everything you do, even doing nothing, has consequences that are …

It's not my decree, it's nature's. The world does not have infinite resources. We have to be careful how we use them. If you cannot live efficiently, you will exhaust your availabl…

There are so many other ways to escape, something virtually everyone needs to do at some point, that don't require someone else's time and effort to do. There are even productive w…

You aren't free to ignore them. To even look at them to identify whether they are advertisements takes time. Even if it took a millisecond, with a billion people looking at it that…

Entertainment and relaxation are necessary, you are right. However, both can be done in ways that are at best productive and at least not-counterproductive. Entertainment does not …

We only tell our selves we can afford. The truth is we are constantly putting off work that needs to be done as if some future generation will fix all these problems. There are ten…

Why do I have to let a company consume my time and mental memory? Why does anyone? Why are we as a society accepting the continued robbery of our time, attention, and thinking?

> It's been dishonest since the start. Criers lying about the effectiveness of some tonic, the attractiveness of some woman, the strength and wisdom of some leader. If those are ha…

You are not immune to propaganda. No one is.

There is a difference, whose significance seems to be lost on you, between peer-to-peer, voluntary communication and centralized, forced distribution. You are not forced to read pa…

If you have to tell people they need something then they don't need it. Escape rooms are an entertainment luxury. When there is essential work that needs to be done (infrastructure…

Their shareholders?

Rights that aren't asserted are not likely to be respected. Yes, of course these rights apply to everyone, but the laws and policies being enacted aren't taking those rights away f…

How condescending and moral relativistic of you to say that there is a wrong time and place to assert what is and is not a human right, that there is no unselfish reason to do so, …

Imagine thinking trans rights are a matter of political perspective. This post brought to you by human rights gang.

Overperformance is when a worker overexerts themselves, by working themselves harder or for longer. Overperformance is a problem because it exerts pressure on the other workers to …

Because now the NSA has a strategic foothold. If they acknowledge the hack, then the adversary will move on to something else. If they don't acknowledge it, they can secretly mitig…

I'm convinced that "privacy tools" have become the homeopathy of computers.

He doesn't want money, he wants his work to be in the public domain.

Is your name short for Pavlov?