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You wouldn’t call a room behind a locked door “obscured.” Even if it’s technically correct in the most stretched definition (which I’m not convinced of), either way it’s not how pe…

That's fascinating, thanks for the insight.

I work in fintech; we use a mix of Scala and Node. Scala for heavy data processing pipelines, Node for our client API, due to Node’s very fast cold start times in lambda.

There’s obviously much more nuance to our choices in the modern world than “live in a work-till-death society” or “live as primitives in the woods.” For instance, many other develo…

That’s why I don’t trust any of these new trendy banking apps; better to stick with established institutions IMO. Not that they’re great either but at least you won’t be in a situa…

One party in the equation is a very powerful, profitable industry, the other is a huge but atomized group of people. To assume that the only power dynamic at play is consumers maki…

> an agenda to smear the whole American nation, including its people, and including its current government I think this speaks to a sensitivity on your part, to which you're overre…

You don't need to get insurance through your employer anymore. That's what the ACA did. You can buy it on a marketplace and choose from dozens of plans, employed or not. It costs h…

I suppose what I'm saying is that in order for a country to have the resources the US has and the political motivation to pursue empire, they'd have to have been on the path to emp…

You said a lot of words and strawman arguments without actually addressing any of the events in the article. Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran, Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala, several leaders…

Not sure Iran is the best example - it is effectively surrounded by nations who want nothing more than to topple its leadership in favor of another West-friendly regime. Look at al…

1. Have you observed that almost every other developed, first-world nation on earth has some kind of nationalized health care service for its citizens, rather than leaving them to …

I don't see how you can look at the many coups against democratically elected foreign leaders who sought to nationalize their countries' natural resources being anything other than…

> That’s to say were China to emerge as the world power, I don’t think they would take pause and just let things be. I've heard that a lot, but I actually wonder if that's true or …

> certain important things like housing, education, and healthcare have gotten far more expensive This is what classist "but they have refrigerators" arguments love to obfuscate. Y…

And yet, if they or a family member have to visit the emergency room, they will likely be financially ruined. I recently visited the ER for some chest pain which amounted to nothin…

I'm not denying that. Of course average standards are better now than they were in the 1950's. But that argument is frequently used as a distraction to avoid talking about very ach…

Yes, except there has been a concerted effort by monied interests in the upper strata of society to convince those below that organizing to demand better wages is useless at best o…

My dad has a friend who owns a bus-sized camper/RV in addition to multiple cars and a beachfront home, but doesn't consider himself rich because he can't afford a large boat. Point…

That's very true. Widespread, high quality public education is a must.

I can't help but read this as a kind of "let them eat cake" argument. Sure, some cars have electric starters now... how does that matter? Plenty of poor, working class people do no…

> valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then? Picture a first-generation immigrant family in America where the parents are older, don't speak En…

Project Veritas is great at getting low-level scoops and inflating their importance for views. Almost like the mainstream news sources they transparently claim to be "above." Durin…

Does anyone have an archive link to the original "avoid news" blog post? Looks like it's a 404 now.