Viewing profile — dubfan

That's fair. It seems police forces across the US have learned to be less confrontational against protestors, and in general this has been a good thing. I've expressed this in a su…

> Freedom isn't the ability "to do" something or anything, it is simply the absence of coercion. A profound point apparently lost on so-called intellectuals. Thank you for understa…

Yeah, being late to my job because my bus can't get through a protest and getting fired as a result is just a slight inconvenience.

They have as much of a right to speak as I have to ignore them. When my right to ignore them is taken away, I have a problem with that.

The protestors are using fear (the fear of being attacked by police) to achieve a political goal (somewhat murky but the general gist seems to be to accelerate the depolicing of ci…

The protests went further than just shutting down the freeways, at least in my city. Here they blocked a transit tunnel that moves commuters through downtown, forcing the buses to …

> The social pendulum in the U.S. has swung far too far towards an authoritarian police state. My view is it's gone the opposite direction. We've neutered our police forces such th…

That's disappointing. I come to HN to get away from political discussions.

The right to peaceably assemble shouldn't supersede the right for citizens to go about their business. The protests crossed that line when they started shutting down freeways and t…

> If your valuation rises, you might be forced to move by taxes. If it drops, you lose services and the place starts to get grubby. Or, if you live in SF, Seattle or Portland, your…

The NY Times is known for their characteristic headline style: http://observer.com/2014/02/for-the-new-york-times-headlines...

I place "The World According To Monsanto" in the same league as "Zeitgeist" and "Loose Change". Great if you want affirmation of your worldview, pretty underwhelming if you're inte…

The first GM crop to be licensed for human consumption in the US was the Flavr Savr tomato, which contained a trait that improved their shelf life and appearance. It was a commerci…

> * GMOs tend to promote monoculture and pesticide use. That's true for industrialized agriculture in general and not specific to GMOs. Growing GMOs doesn't promote monoculture or …

Propaganda works both ways, and Sourcewatch has a massive blind spot when it comes to anti-corporate propaganda. Their page on Monsanto is full of uncritically repeated propaganda …

Universities in Germany are free for everyone, besides the semester fee which is negligible. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29...

Very cool. Years back I attempted to write a web app in Python to chat with MegaHAL, and though I managed to get something working, I was in way over my head at the time and the ap…

I don't think anyone here is trying to tear Davis down. It's just that his writings can reflect poorly on our community as a whole to those who aren't familiar with his circumstanc…

I've been seeing a lot of these types of articles lately, trying to convince how bad off the American worker is and how those fat cats in the 1% are siphoning all of the wealth awa…

At least the conservative think tank is up front about their bias, unlike HuffPo.

Also, Osborne went out of business in 1985, but the 486 didn't debut until 1989.

I recall that the site has some flamewar detection algorithm that will penalize a story if it detects a flamewar. I don't have a source for this at the moment, though.

Prejudice isn't necessarily a bad thing. As a society, we're fighting over where the line is between "bad prejudice" and "good prejudice", and the tech gender gap is just one of ma…