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I don't think it's wise to impugn an app or service because we find their investors unsavory along political lines. If that's the case let's not forget Facebook is also funded by a…

Are you suggesting that their long game was always to create an app where a subset of users could organize a riot at the capitol in the event Trump lost the election? You may have …

HN won't let me post this as a link but here is the URL: https://m.apkpure.com/parler/com.parler.parler

It doesn't take any spin to get that message from the graffiti all around Portland; it's pretty explicit about what to do to cops.

Ok now do Twitter. And Facebook. And Gmail. And the US Postal Service.

No rational person could possibly see where you might be going with this. The relevance of the assumption is that I made the statement "the education in this country has failed us"…

Holy hell, calm down, bro. I never assumed everyone, I am replying to pmiller2. And yes, I am assuming pmiller2 and I both live in the United States. There is a pretty good chance …

The fact that you think "surveillance communism" would be for society's benefit and that the idea of communist countries mass spying on their subjects is hypothetical shows how muc…

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Is imperialism unique to capitalism? What about capitalism necessitates imperialism? Was Soviet Russia not imperialist when it conquered much of eastern Europe? Is China's expansio…

I believe it is a bad expression to use because what should be a critique of the data economy now is impugning aspects of capitalism. If the end you wish to effect is better privac…

Well, counting up all the times in human history that governments had to violently force their subjects to accept private property rights or their ability to alienate their labor..…

I hope this isn't the beginnings of a "true communism" type of argument. If it is, let's save some time and acknowledge the same can be said for "true capitalism" where the latter …

I'll start with that I am all for the idea of intellectual privacy and the need for safe guards, but even I could only make it part way through this article (and if these are the p…

This is pretty narrow thinking; it assumes communism was some failed 1950's Soviet experiment and has no modern implementation. I doubt China limits it's surveillance to wiretaps a…

Don't forget the part where you translated all 7 Harry Potter novels into flawless Latin because you've been both leaning Latin and brushing up on wizardry on the side.

I'm going to pose this question more in the context of their analysis and without consideration to anything else. There have been a myriad of studies which try to link minimum wage…

I've been informed the term is "denylist" now.

I won't contest that history is not replete with examples of management failing to listen to warnings from their employees, but the leadership model most places employ is effective…

Because most companies are private enterprises started by some entrepreneur that had some vision for the good/service that is being produced. Presumably, you and your employer ente…

If not for the racial context, what other motivation would there be to change the terms? In what other context would someone object to arbitrarily assigning one color as good and o…

I think it's a misrepresentation of my argument to say that because I mentioned that they appear in the dictionary that I am conceding that they are not good terms (although by you…

This is patently false. Anecdotally, I've never heard of CS students having trouble over figuring out what the terms mean, and furthermore, these are not strictly CS/software engin…

It is arguably more bad faith to assume the criticism is legitimate. Its at best intellectually dishonest and at worst condescending/arrogant to assume people can't not form racist…