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Is Russian bot-net spreading and inciting outrage through millions of fake accounts in order to destabilize SA in the Middle East roaming too far into tin-foil-hat theory?

This is an excellent comment.

The Netherlands is a Western economy

Comments here are hilarious. Replace "Peter Thiel" with "Elon Musk" and "conservative" with "liberal" and the circle jerk will fly.

Marathon runners, climbers, etc you mentioned have a pretty narrow field of physical competence. No way in hell a climber can compare athletically to LeBron James.

At that distance, at the complete edge of the field (could’ve easily gone out of bounds), swarmed by two guys, with one hand. Most impressive things in history of sports might be a…

Reading this is like watching a robot try to mimic human interaction

I've heard some variant of this idea a thousand times and it doesn't work. Also, slightly ironic/depressing to react to an article about systemic loneliness in the tech age with "m…

The unapologetic close-mindedness of Americans, even in the more intelligent parts of the web, never ceases to baffle me. Really? Human experimentation started in the US?

There's no confirmation yet of Snowden being on board, however wikileaks has offered this cryptic tweet: "The reported actions of France, Portugal and Spain this night will live in…

Why is the White House even making that request? At which point does religious appeasement start to become institutionalized through fear?

And yet Mark Pincus is a multi-millionaire and a massive Valley success story. Not to mention the last guy that had Zuckerbeg's "zeal" and lived in a humble house died recently, an…

How do they overcome safety risks? What if in the heat of a gunfight, the user pulls the trigger in a different manner and gets locked out by the gun?

He brings up some good points, but what does this have to do with anything? Obviously the default state of a startup is failure... what do his preceding two paragraphs have to do w…

Isn't it sad that building products that add real value into people's lives is turning into a novel idea? Stop building "clever products", build useful ones that people will love. …

Seems to die if I try to open up chat, but otherwise its been solid for me.