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You didn't mention sex selection in your previous posts. You said: "Labs can make sperm from stem cells, so there's really no need for us anymore." That statement is ambiguous. You…

> As ever the perfect is the enemy of the good. A male-free society would be expected to have a much lower violence rate. How about we consider a different demographic group? It's …

I'll just leave this right here: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_... For the TL;DR crowd: "In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, t…

I was wrong to have brought up your personal political beliefs. I apologize for that. The arguments you are making, however, are dependent on the idea that markets are a necessary …

Welp, maybe you shouldn't have commented on a political article then? I'm really not trolling you here. I'm reading everything you're writing. I suspect others will notice that it …

I'm actually enjoying this conversation. That's why I've stuck around this long. To quote your last comment: "What they do instead is impose regulatory frameworks that forbid compa…

You're right. They're prioritizing access over the financial concerns of the providers. That's what public utilities do. That's what we did when we electrified the South. That's wh…

I haven't asked you to do anything of the sort. I point out the NHS because I want you to explain why the internet is fundamentally different. You've done an excellent job explaini…

Yeah, they'll tell you their internet connection speed is shitty. Unless you live in Chattanooga, where the evil Department of Fiber Optics is busy oppressing them.

The attitude that leads to you ridicule government provided services is exactly why I made my previous comment about your obvious political bias. It wasn't any more rude than the s…

He's just better at dodging my questions than you are :). But please, keep erecting your straw man. The entire point of this is that the internet would be fundamentally different i…

That's not my argument. Publicly funded does not necessarily mean primarily academic. The market is not the only driver of public demand for goods and services. Streaming video is …

How so?

You're right, it's not. But it could have been.

Government has been responsible for the largest undertakings in human history. Space flight, nuclear weaponry and energy, particle colliders, etc.

Actually I was replying to your original comment before you edited. The idea that a publicly run internet would not have been able to produce the innovations necessary for Netflix …

Comparing the internet you have in 2016 to the internet that existed in the 1990's is a bit unfair, don't you think? The idea that only markets are capable of delivering innovation…

Ah, you're right. Sorry for the misunderstanding on my part. They abandoned NSFNET and declined to pass regulations regarding the new privately built infrastructure. That begs the …

They inherited NSFNET, which emerged from ARPANET. It's in the article.