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Sigh. You're right, sorry. I'm out.

I don't agree with visarga's first sentence. But I don't think it's childish to want a war criminal to be held to some account. More than 100,000 civilians died in that conflict, a…

I thought the Boring company was the most "obviously for Mars" project. One of the cheapest ways to create pressurized, radiation-sheltered spaces is to dig.

This subthread is off of devmunchies comment about Reddit and Twitter, and the OP is about 4chan. All of these forums are global. My point is that American-style conservatism may r…

I don't understand why everyone bought the idea that we don't need unions anymore. This is exactly the sort of thing they make better.

What makes you say that American conservative views are not extreme, in the context of the global internet?

Something that's popular is practically by definition not on the extreme any more. In most of the developed world the Democrats would be considered a moderate right-wing party, and…

You're speaking in pure ideology. I could just as easily say that this the result of 40 years of the upper class shifting the tax burden downward to the middle class, while lobbyin…

I have no problem with the possibility that men and women are different. What's unjustified is, given the powerful effect of culture on behaviour, someone making offhand claims tha…

That plot would fit into, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which had a viewship in the millions) no problem. Also, if you're going to say things like "natural difference between men …

Are you sure that's not spam?

This is essentially Trump's plan, which has had a hard time finding anyone in the field of economics to back it. Can you point to anyone who has qualifications beyond being a pundi…

Have you considered the possibility that there might be more than two ways (Randian capitalism or Marxist communism) to run an economy?

That's the standard ideological line, but this whole story is about how Apple is stockpiling cash, not investing. (And yes, I understand that the cash isn't just stuffed in a mattr…

Genuine question: given this, am I correct in thinking that if there was a big corporate tax cut the most likely outcome is that the money retained would just further inflate this …

It's deserved: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11833548/donald-trump-support-ra...

That theoretically makes the hack harder (you've got to hack two systems/vendors), but we're talking about attackers with potentially state-level resources. The bigger problem is t…

The right talks about more freedom, but their actions result in less of it. Arbitrary power used to be much more concentrated in one particular race and one particular gender. The …

Estonia's system is absolutely hackable. Anything that runs on commodity hardware or a commodity OS is. See my rant in the main thread.

Imagine if you took a vote with paper ballots, and then went to every one of the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people who had a hand in creating a voting machine (think of…

Ah, the good old Social Darwinism argument.

It's a left-wing value that you can, and should, separate the person and what they believe from their actions. If anyone were to suggest that we should ban Trump supporters from im…

I'm mostly responding to your "Why does diversity initiatives never seem to care about diversity of political opinions?" question. I'm saying that it's legitimate for diversity ini…

If you haven't heard anyone address that point, you haven't looked very hard. It's an (IMO) important part of the left-wing philosophy to be intolerant of intolerance: https://en.w…

My take is that the "hacked the election" is mostly a right-wing framing. What's much more interesting is evidence of collusion: money changing hands in undisclosed ways, policies …