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I think these kinds of Cybersecurity issues will be used opportunistically to justify regulations that infringe on privacy and give more access to governments. I'm reminded of how …

I don't think its reasonable to demand people pepper every comment with citaitons and links for things that can easily be found with a quick internet search.

> Boards should have more apprehension about their companies being exploited as political platforms by employees. The ownership of these companies are the ones pushing these politi…

Coming up with a poll question where any answer you give will be interpreted as support for the pollster's politics is an art. I totally believe that poll. A lot of those people pr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen Do you think these maybe have more to do with causing those differences in the first place?

>probably goes back tens of thousands of years I think you're off by several orders of magnitude, but yea it goes back a long way lol

Why do you think those parents think that? Would any parent have thought that 50 years ago? No way.

Do you think the Israeli government was telling the truth when it denied using the phone call records transmitted to Amdocs' servers in Israel for intelligence purposes?

Any report that cites the navy videos from last year is not going to be very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA Videos of blurry splotches and eye witness tes…

>chronically-suffering animal’s life I don't think most farm animals are suffering through their entire life. They seem pretty all right to me. Factory chicken farms should be bann…

> Removing grazing animals from the land can allow for reforestation and increase biodiversity and carbon sequestration Ok. How much land could be reforested that way? Most grazing…

I can respect that. Slaughterhouses are not pretty places. The weirdness is when you consider that the animals only exist because people raised them for their meat, is it really le…

And yet it's true. 2/3rds of pasture is not suitable for agriculture and would be worthless without ruminants. The corn-fed cattle industry in the US is a result of energy being ch…

That land is called marginal land, or pasture. You can't grow crops there economically r do anything else really. Removing the grazing animals from the land changes nothing and doe…

Precisely this. A blog gets to decide what comments to allow. But if Facebook wants to connect everyone in my country then we as a people have a right to decide what is allowed and…

I've seen this argument a lot recently. "If we screw other people in a sufficiently convoluted and Rube-Goldbergian enough way then it's almost like we're not screwing over anyone …

Train stations are cheaper than airports. California High-Speed rail line plus a few stations is most certainly not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Con... >In March 2018, the Authority revised its estimate to $77.3 billion and up to $98.1 billion, pushing initial service…

There were opportunists on both sides but the blockstream people argued that purely observational non-mining nodes somehow 'secure' the network despite having no effect and need to…

>they only lose flexibility when compared with cars Planes fly in more or less straight lines from source to destination, and adding a new route is just some paperwork and renting …

Why build a train line that only takes you where a bus could, when you could build an airport that connects you to the entire globe?

>Shir Ekerling who's from Tel Aviv in Israel. Now Shir is a very interesting self-taught software developer whose passion has become business. Now isn't that the most awesome place…

Under the 4th amendment NSA is forbidden from collecting the communications of US citizens without a warrant. Do you disagree or think the constitution should be amended to authori…

Exactly, which is why an open and complete back and forth discussion of the data is required to establish the truth. People who have trained themselves to be allergic to data often…