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> If you're going to comment on an inflammatory topic like this, do so with respect for the opposing point of view. If you can't muster any such respect, and only want to smite ene…

> Has anyone had any issue with "Sold By X, Fulfilled By Amazon"? That usually works well for me. That's actually the worst, since that opens you up to getting counterfeit items fr…

Or, a government could just say... Why not both? I'm serious. It seems like a good idea to promote competition and put a ceiling on the prices of essential medicines based on the g…

> Please don't Godwin already-flameprone threads. That's trolling, whether you intended to or not. If you weren't aware: Godwin has repealed "Godwin's law": https://www.washingtonp…

Exactly my point. Science wasn't neutral in WWII, and it's not neutral now. If von Braun hadn't been part of their regime, they may not have had V-weapons. If Hitler hadn't been su…

> Do you equate the Chinese to nazis? No, I emphatically do not. That's the most false and inflammatory misreading of my comment possible. The Chinese people are not villains, full…

Only one of those links was about Muslims. One was about the terrible conditions in labor camps that even Han Chinese are sent to, and another was about the jailing of human rights…

They are harbingers of the computing apocalypse and have shown that progress is a lie. By 2050 we'll be forced to use monitors with the aspect ratio of swords, because the manufact…

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My main problem with 16:9 is how obscenely long they are. I use my monitors to do work, not watch movies, so I have a lot more need for vertical real-estate. Tilting them on their …

> Maybe engaging China is the first step to them opening up their society? Similar to the arguments against the Cuban embargo. No. Them "engaging China" will not open up Chinese so…

This needs "(2014)" added to the title. This appears to be a repost of the famous Facebook study that manipulated people's news feeds: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv…

> You realize that automated credit scores are a thing in the US right? China is taking the concept a step further, but it's not unique to them That's a disingenuous and misleading…

> That’s the gp’s point I think, the U.K. doesn’t have the the same separation of powers between government branches as the US. With some minor exceptions, Parliament is the whole …

> Not all social media bots are malicious. And not all social media bots are posting content from low credibility sources. The collateral damage from banning them all may be worth …

> I'm trying to manufacture a theory that better fits all the facts. Intimidation is a simple theory, and acceptable as a fallback, but if that's all that was going on, then it rai…

> Wouldn't that be like a new zealander visiting the LA and doing something the Bloods don't like, and so the bloods barge into his hotel room on the night before he returns to new…

> It seems more like they were looking for a specific person, instead of trying to intimidate directly. That idea doesn't make any sense. They didn't search other rooms, and this p…

> Plenty of countries get around this with independent but government funded media Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at. I don't recall the conversation advancing in that direc…

> Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing images and videos of people suffering with AIDS Soviets tended to play up the bad poin…

> News organisations like the music industry before them need to realize that a huge part of what people used to pay them for was the reliable distribution of their product. This a…

> I seriously don't think they care if we use Baidu or not. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the party would PREFER that we NOT use Baidu. If the world used Baidu, it would be a…

> Advertising is different from Javascript. Advertising can simply be a load of images that are easy to render, as in traditional periodicals. Web pages suck because it's easier fo…

> Yes, I use aggregators so I don't fall victim (as easily) to echochambers of my own design. All sources are biased, but at least you can hopefully get some idea of the truth by r…

> Local and major news sites alike, are cesspoools of intrusive advertising and tracking. They’re so poorly built, with so much advertising, that they hardly even function any long…