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So . . what is the statement you're making? That those forest fires that could have been avoided are "natural" and that i shouldn't care about the negligent pollution of air or the…

Can you cite a single reputable source that backs your claim that, specifically, the forest fires in California that released enough smoke and carbon that they reddened skies as fa…

Excuse me? I'm not sure if you're serious. Given you're the CTO at attentive, i'd expect a better attempt at a substantive argument while commenting on a public thread on HN. The b…

I respectfully disagree. There are conflicting provisions under law, but the widely accepted standard is a declaration "by a qualified medical professional"[1]As another comment he…

I'm not fully convinced the courts got this one completely right. This is a very interesting legal argument and lays emphasis on the need for legislators to express their intention…

Precisely. When you also factor in the productivity derived from an increased access to learning resources on the internet and industrial scale production of equipment that would h…

This may be a controversial opinion so please, disagree through speech and not downvotes: No other nation on the planet guarantees free speech to their citizens as a right other th…

That'll drive them to use encrypted channels without oversight. The functioning of many a government agency isn't a derivation of the official processes. The official processes and…

“Snarky comments do nothing to further a discussion”

This isn’t reddit. Please don’t downvote because you disagree, try and have a reasonable discussion. Read my comment again and please tell me where I cited emissions per capita . I…

It's amazing to me how most of these predictions refrain from calling out the single largest polluters in the world, China, from changing their behavior or doing anything substanti…

Quality of life in the country side in my opinion, tends to be far better than what you'd find even in the best of cities, but that's a personal opinion and one that individuals sh…

Boy, you should have been around when the pioneers were around! We'd have saved Trillions just staying in what is now New York. The arguments around treating rural living areas as …

I disagree. Many of these tech companies, Google included, are indeed too big and exert outsize influence on a variety of fields, but saying they aren't "accountable" to their empl…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians I'll wait for an apology.

Personally, i found the series on HBO to have been poorly researched and even more poorly delivered in execution. A whole part of dealing with Russians as well as a large part of h…

A part of me wonders if the disproportionate weightage of particular scientists/researchers skews the field toward their ideas more than others. As far as i can tell, the Vatican p…

> "Why should the price of the phone matter to Qualcomm" Why should the makers of phones use Qualcomm technology? FRAND standards aren't laws, only good faith handshake promises un…

Reading the comments here, it pains me that after all this time, the tech community still doesn't see that they're not like everyone else. No. The answer simply cannot be 'better p…

Interesting. You're saying that one mustn't take the writings in a blog seriously, because . . its a blog? Here are a few choice quotes from the blog: > Which gives me, as your ner…

Pardon the rage, but this blog is simply a rant masquerading as technical opinion. Laser printers do NOT have better quality to a comparable inkjet printer. This is what happens wh…

This takes me back to all those videos earlier last year claiming FB is "Listening to you through your mic to target ads" , it's most likely one of these third party apps doing ske…

To be fair, i find this very useful. One of the issues i've run into time and again while trying to consolidate a big chunk of my "Understanding" of a field such as CS over to some…

Wait, watching the video, it appears it's a single guy who shoved the cameraman and was immediately restrained and thrown out by another supporter right behind him. If we're going …