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>So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy? That's a false dichotomy which implies you missed my point. There is no such thing as sovereign democrac…

One could indict every major world power for foreign election interference. Laws are meaningless if no one follows them.

>The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,” >“Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department of Justice is resolute in its c…

>Money gives you time. Being alive gives you time. >If you aren't being paid to do the journalism then you are getting paid to do something else Yeah, you're getting paid to do wha…

If everyone can watch everyone with equal transparency, that would seem to imply a distributed system with information symmetry, which is antithetical to centralized authority. If …

Their best for you, or for advertisers?

Care to elaborate on your concerns? We're obviously speaking theoretically here at a high level of abstraction

>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. -John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: …

>we could watch the people that watch us. If this were possible, there would be no authority

>This is literally Google donating money to charity. I specifically said "product" donations. >Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their pr…

That's a lot like saying FB and GOOG are charitable because they give their products away for "free". How much money/data are those product donations extracting from the people the…

>The negatives are less tangible: giving up your personal data (this is complicated by the fact that the data didn't exist until you used their services), targeted advertising, I'm…

Time is more important than money, and expertise does not depend on the funding of a newspaper or media company

So, a subject matter expert with a cellphone video?

Where the problem arises is the degree to which one is affected by these emotions. Too much anxiety can lead to paranoia, schizophrenia and anti-social behavior, too little can lea…

In case you didn't realize, my comment and the parent's comment are satirical.

"The internet would not exist without advertising"

>Emotions are part of the biological machinery that keeps meat-machines alive and active in the world. Not all emotions are valuable, some are indeed quite harmful and anti social.…

No you didn't, you spoke of "responsibility", and being around to "take care of them", which implies an unfulfilled or unending paternalism

>no evidence that total biological death would entail anything but You seem very certain of your hypothesis. Is there anything that science has had a harder time defining, quantify…

Yes, I understand why atheists are so fearful of death, but also see the illogical and impractical nature of it. >death for atheists is the loss of everything Atheist logic should …

>When the brain is damaged or undergoes chemical changes, we know that consciousness seems to disappear. There is no strong evidence to think this is different upon the death of an…

>If you thought you'd never wake up again, how comfortably would you go to sleep? If we have no choice but to go to sleep, why would we want to spend those last moments feeling ter…

Is the goal of parents raising children not to prepare them to be adults that can take care of themselves? That's the problem with "helicopter parents", they hold on so selfishly t…

It seems your logic has been overriden by your fear. If, as you hypothesize, one loses "conscious experience forever" when they die, how could they consciously experience "endless …