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I'm proud to say that I am person number 1089456347 who is not part of the statistical masses.

Jobs are the simplest and most striking example of incentives. "Do this and you will get money, which you can spend on food and shelter". Where a person living in abundance can cho…

Does human nature explain the difference in regulation and therefore progress between US and China Pharma? I mean to say: Yes it's certainly a factor, but we're also leaving fences…

Oh it's so nuanced and hard to parse that he's arguing for compromise. The trouble is, compromise isn't really a tenable option with encryption. Either you make a draconian law tha…

This. Author does talk about a lot of facts but seems very defeatist wrt whether an anonymous, encrypted internet can be preserved. I do recognize their point that it's been made v…

Wow, I'm surprised you can write a prescription from just a blog post.

Daniel Naroditsky is dead

Every argument in this thread comes from a value judgement? If you don't have personal privacy as a value then the answer is obvious - this is going to save kids from porn for no h…

Every one of those can be stepped over at the discretion of a parent. I can buy an M rated videogame for them. I can show them an R rated movie in theater. I can let them have wine…

A significant part of the cultural value of the internet comes from free anonymous expression. As a key example, look at 4chan - anonymity taken to it's extreme has resulted in on …

Why do you or anyone besides me (and my partner) get to decide what is ok for my kid to see? If you want your kids to not see porn on the internet, cool. Don't give them Internet a…

I linked it in my direct reply, but - we don't need to guess at why these bills are being introduced or who by. We have evidence. It's malice. https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTip…

I strongly disagree. You're framing this as some desirable thing that could be good except that a bad implementation erodes privacy. That's wrong at every step. These bills origina…

Probably Grip?

This is simply not true. Pride flags. Edit: Also the Esperanto Flag.

In my (possibly flawed) understanding, it's a franchise so they were able to dissolve the LLC that owned this particular store. The franchise is what has physical possession of the…

The police are literally in on it. It's very likely they've violated Ben's civil rights, roughly at the behest of the new franchise owners (who they know personally through the LDS…

3x/week is wild. I'd get a different type of grass at that point.

You should read up - you're pretty obviously misunderstanding the diagnosis. Maybe think of this as removing a long-standing distraction or irritant. Like turning down the music fr…

Why PDF for the data format instead of, say, CSV?

They don't claim to have it; they have it. It's like saying 'tobacco allegedly causes cancer' - the proof is very public and available. The typical reason for saying it like that i…

Does it make more sense to you phrased as "GameStop offers to purchase controlling 50% of eBay for $28B" ?

They can't include it in EBITDA

Well hey, what do you think about them buying eBay? eBay seems to think a lot of the value is in verification - grading cards, authenticating watches, shoes, handbags. GameStop has…