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Seems like a lot of that can be solved by simply not moderating or censoring anythng.

Yep. I think the right approach is to expose the browser's primitives and just have people write their own markup/layout/style languages if they want to. Keep HTML/CSS as a fall-ba…

>If they pardon him, they say it's alright to release national secrets based on "feelings" Ah, but the thing is, they built the domestic surveillance infrastructure based on "feeli…

>maybe Trump I doubt it. Trump has praised NSA surveillance in the past and has hinted that Snowden should be executed. Unless he was just saying such things to try to get the inte…

Umm... or, I could just rotate a square a quarter-turn by iterating over the square's elements: for (x = 0; x Of course, in certain representations of the square (such as using a 1…

The only retaliation I can think of that would be both proportionate and ethical would be to hack secret data of the Russian leadership and release at least part of it to the world…

I don't think there's a problem reconciling the brain with the mind, if by 'mind' one means problem-solving ability. The problem is in reconciling the brain with consciousness . Th…

Behavior? Yes. Consciousness? Maybe not. As far as I know, no-one has ever come up with an explanation of how matter can give rise to consciousness. Obviously consciousness is affe…

I have the opposite dream right now: I've spent almost my entire life in large cities and now that I'm in my thirties, finally have a career going, and am no longer obsessed with m…

In many situations, it does make financial sense to live with family — however, sometimes one is simply happier and more productive when one has sufficient space that one more or l…

Out of curiosity — how would you feel about a rural suburb if you could work remotely from it and make the same money that you could make in a big city? What other things would you…

I wonder what the math is on the 0.1%'s money. If the 0.1% became significantly more generous with their money, how much would that actually benefit everyone else?

Where are your friends and colleagues going, if I may ask?

Bit of a conspiracy theory sort of question, but... is there any reason to believe that maybe self-driving car technology is being backed by the military-industrial complex as a wa…

It's interesting what a difference there is in people's perspectives. To me, Reddit seems excruciatingly polite and well-mannered, often to the point of dishonesty. This is probabl…

If that someone is working for the campaign of a politician/party which supports NSA spying on Americans, he or she has no right to privacy in my eyes. The way I see it, if you wan…

'Secret law' is not law at all, and I consider it the duty of every American to expose and, if necessary, disobey it. Any legal professional participating in 'secret law' should be…

I think tomp is pointing out that doing something equivalent to circumcision to a female baby would be illegal. Rightly so, in my opinion. I strongly believe that male circumcision…

There's also the issue of self-driving car hype vs. the actual progress of the technology. Despite a growing number of successes in the field, I still can't really imagine that we …

I'm mostly with you on this one. I like mass transit. It's a fun opportunity to people-watch. What I don't like is riding with smelly and/or loud and/or violent people. I don't car…

I find it more plausible that tech billionaires are just more likely, as a group, to believe in technocrat rule, etc. than are people who are not tech billionaires. Being an immigr…