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It's not "masquerading as unbiased news reporting", it's a longform magazine essay. Of course the writer, who has been covering this story for years, is going to bring his own pers…

Is this really a thoughtful or useful comment? It's a completely unsubstantiated smear of the writer because you don't agree with his take on the case.

I know the following concept is absolutely foreign to most people in tech, who would gladly take seed funding from Unit 751, but if you're accepting millions of dollars in donation…

Either Ito failed to do even a minimal amount of due diligence on a person he accepted millions of dollars from, or he did and then didn't care. Either way, it's a catastrophic fai…

I'm glad that modern eugenicists now feel comfortable enough to once again openly make the argument that their privileged position is due to their genetic superiority to "lower-ach…

It's relevant to the political problem of defeating their opposition, sure, but not relevant to the merits of the policy. It's also fairly obvious - rich people think they're bette…

Who knows or cares? Overcoming the opposition of wealthy, cloistered local elites is an important political problem, but the specific nature of their opposition isn't relevant to t…

No, this does not resolve the issue at all. The problem is not that police are accessing Ring footage against the will of the owners, the problem is that Ring users are complicit i…

A focus on the mediums through which these shooters express their views misses the forest for the trees, which is that this is fundamentally a political problem. There is an ascend…

The conquistadors and colonists were generally adventurers from impoverished regions of their home countries, engaged in extremely arduous military and quasi-military expeditions t…

Instead of a non-profit, it should simply be nationalized and run as a utility. This not only eliminates the "tax on transactions", it would also transfer Visa's enormous power to …