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I came here to say just this. The pivot at "rather than fixing tech companies, we can fix the internet" makes absolutely no sense.

At least in downtown San Francisco, many shared rides cost $4 total.

Counterpoint since I only see anti-FB replies below: I absolutely love seeing OAuth login. I don't have to create yet another password, or worry about whether your site has reasona…

I've seen a lot of teams keep a shared scripts/aliases file, and import it to everyone's .bashrc or equivalent. Very useful.

[With the acknowledgement that this is a tangent from the article]: I don't have hard data on hand, but in my experience, the kind of innumeracy you point to is shockingly widespre…

Fortunately, you don't really have to solve that problem. It would be sufficient to assess claims of actual fact about the actual world. I think the first step in writing the class…

In general, I favor freedom of determination; if your randomly selected person wants to spend their BI on drugs or alcohol, fine. But the persistently homeless are not at all a rep…

There's a wide range of moral gray area there. Imagine, e.g., a US contractor who builds converters that make dumb bombs into smart bombs. The US is going to bomb people anyway; be…

> If I attend a conference I have the right to stay anonymous. Sadly, legally you have no such right. You are in a public space, and anyone can take your picture freely and do pret…

This is baseless FUD; any serious objections he might have are only hinted at: "things I can't talk about". If everyone switched to Chrome, at worst Chrome would get complacent, as…

I agree that the uniform distribution is fishy. I could object to the binomial assumption too; it seems kind of question-begging. My point was just that the thesis "your vote doesn…

> Your vote doesn't matter - the probability of it altering the outcome are infinitesimally small. That's nice sounding cynicism, but it's not obvious that the math actually comes …

"Priced out" is not strictly accurate - San Francisco is still more expensive than the peninsula. But it's only slightly more expensive, so the cost factor doesn't provide much inc…

Yes, it's important to be articulate. But the author is talking about speaking a different vernacular. I imagine one can be articulate in Black English* without being fluent in Whi…

> Google and Facebook want to give everyone access to the Internet because they need more raw materials. More data. The first sentence seems basically true, but the second, and the…