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"Google contains multitudes" It does not contain people who flout Google's privacy, security, or intellectual property policies. Those people are, quite rightfully, un-contained fr…

A lot of the people who comment here are techie provincials who literally have no understanding that the things they believe, or at least the things they recite as their beliefs, a…

.... as opposed to what? What do you think they should have done, sat around waiting to be captured so the could be featured in a NoKo TikTok video?

The latter is an "impossible question" because it's a meaningless question.

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"You essentially outline why it should be broken up." No, they didn't. They explained why breaking Google up would kill all of those "free" services. "Google is a monopoly, they ex…

We don't need new regulations. This is probably covered by commercial fraud statutes, as they represented the sale of the device as a sale of tangible personal property. There is n…

That's not entirely their fault. Those programs were designed and instituted to make as many people as possible dependent on them so they would become a captured voting bloc.

You can derive morality from observation if you aren't looking for ontological "ought statements". Hume's position assumes that the religious approach to morality is the only one p…

She didn't "feel like she needed Social Security". In fact, she instructed her fiduciary to not apply for it on her behalf because she didn't need it, and her detractors would use …

And she didn't engage in hypocrisy. It has a meaning.

The NixOS team is an order of magnitude more unstable than their software. The most surprising thing here is that anyone who needs their systems to actually work would rely on it, …

- their attempts at having kids decades later take longer or fail completely Isn't that normal when you try to have kids "decades later"?

LLMs don't do formal reasoning. Not in any sense. They don't do any kind of reasoning - they replay combinatorics of the reasoning that was encoded in their training data via "find…

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Not to mention the reincarnated Norse gods

No. According to the Mujahadeen who did work with CIA, ObL was considered an "extremist" even among them because he expected to go to war against the US immediately after they were…

You can't have an ideology that claims both "people have a right to things that others must produce" and "bodily autonomy". This isn't a potluck dinner. You can't just mix and matc…

No mention of Strigoi. I guess they're still covering that up.

"we don't put people to jail for things that hurt their health, like alcohol, or pizza." And yet people keep trying to get the government more and more deeply involved in the medic…

It's easier to snark at something than to actually address its content. Witness the vacuous "dunkage" of that quote above. Literally any book with heroes, people of principle, or p…

Citizens United didn't change any established laws. It reiterated the already-existing fact that people don't lose their free speech rights just because they've banded together int…

This is an absurd take on social relations. It's equivalent to declaring that you're owned by "society" from birth, with an unchosen obligation you can never escape, because everyt…

I've noticed that headlines on some of the major news outlets sometimes change after the javascript fully loads. I don't follow WaPo, so this isn't unique to them.

Sun machines always seemed to have weird environment-dependent behavior. In college, one of our classmates got the nickname "the human eclipse" because no matter what time of day, …