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Wat? You just stated that it's inappropriate to smile at a co-worker of the opposite sex. That's sufficiently bizarre that I assume you misread the original post... (I'm applying O…

"Or britain - you know the place that 1984 was about. Or germany, spain, canada, russia, saudi arabia, etc." What rubbish. The assertion that nations like Canada are comparable in …

Citation needed.

Why is it a dangerous notion? For the sake of argument, if everyone went completely over the top and deleted all their social media accounts, the world would go back to looking lik…

This times a million. Delete the FB account now, install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and the data about you that's out there will become increasingly stale.

I never liked the reciprocal friend model of Facebook, and I liked even less that it was exposed publicly by default, allowing anyone to crawl the social graph. Even if you lock do…

It's libertarian extremism. It's simply the reverse of communism, where the taxation level is 100%, and the state provides everything. Under this model, the taxation level is 0, an…

Sounds sensible, but how does one ensure that the "lots of consumer options" part holds? There seem to be quite a few sectors with winner-take-all dynamics (e.g. social networking)…

"Atheist are on that front the same, and believe 100% there is no god." This is a false statement. The rest of your post is supposition and anecdote.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0012902/ tldr; speed traps save lives and reduce injury.

It didn't strike me as snarky at all, and it's also not obvious considering that many people want the police warnings so that they can break the law. Apparently complying with laws…

Anecdotes are not data.

"Offshore developed code is not usually the same quality." American exceptionalism and absolutely wrong.

All of these seem sensible except "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that." "Your mission" is simply a placeholder for what you believe will ma…

The vast majority of clothes are made in low wage countries because economics. Putting others down because they dared buy inexpensive clothing is sanctimonious claptrap.