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How do you differentiate between genuine grassroots opposition and astroturfing campaigns?

Lying by omission and plausible deniability are hallmarks of pernicious and subversive agents.

The progressive supremacist agenda marches on. No doubt that spending by their compatriots will be quietly swept under the rug, whereas opponents of those cadres' agendas will be s…

> In order for device manufacturers to get the Play Store on their phone, they have to give in to Google's demands to add the Google search box on the home screen of the phones. Wh…

Activists in general should always expect to be treated harshly.

How would you feel if insurers prodded overweight people to exercise and eat better, or else their rates go up or coverage cut altogether? How would you feel if insurers prodded la…

There's nothing wrong with having a geographic bias in skepticism, Nigeria is not a historical source of innovation. This is not necessarily a bad thing, if anything it elevates th…

"Creating capital" isn't an evil thing -- when provided a free and frictionless economic market to roam, made aware of such opportunities to fully realize their ambitions, and insp…

It is for domestic consumption, and much like Japan it is generally being held domestically. They are indebting themselves to themselves tremendously and (as is in the case of Japa…

Using per person GDP when discussing China is a cruel joke. Like most usages of per person GDP in any country, it glosses over regional disparities and (more importantly) economic …

How does one reconcile this with jaded cynicism of "regulations for thee but not for me"? Furthermore, does this regulation target the hardware products themselves, the software pe…

Progressive supremacism is a far more accurate term, denoting the outright hostility towards even tacit opposition or signs of hesitation.

Those uncivilized societies were rightfully left to the dustbin of history -- they embody the nihilism I am referring to.

One is that empathy and self-control are the internal enforcers of the civilizing process. A lack of one or both is the sign of an uncivilized society or individual. Another is tha…

There are absolute rules that we should adhere to, to imply that they are a social construction is to embrace nihilism and anarchy. There is a set of universal standards and expect…

A problem that Apple faces too -- any product proposal that doesn't derive 10-20% profits out of the gate is derided as a non-starter, so product development becomes stagnant.

Do you believe the US is in a state of civil war?

There is a difference between exercising your freedom of speech and the social justice warrior crusading that the parent commenter is advocating. Nobody is above criticism, that mu…

I'm not sure of an exact name for that but what you're describing can be considered the theory of marginal productivity[1]. Your argument that the 10% cost in labor (to hire those …

> There's been progress on that front with several Trump administration officials confronted while dining for example. Normalizing the harassment of elected officials is dangerous …

That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever y…

Are they crap because they all look the same? Altimas may look bland as hell but they're built to last.

Leftist news outlets are not known for their integrity or consistency.

There's nothing wrong with that, considering everybody else is strenuously trying to pull you into theirs. Upvote/downvote brigades abound as well as the institutionalization of po…

Such an argument is bereft of logic and full of lazy moralization and Utopian rhetoric. It has not always been that incumbent programmers hold back the next generation and in many …