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Male, female, transgender, white, black, straight, homosexual, rich, poor, country of origin... Again, this is my point. Any time there is an overabundance of straight white males,…

Why do you assume that I am a straight white male? Why do you assume I lived a life of priveledge because of the color of my skin and my gender? This is exactly what I'm describing…

I think there is a growing problem in our society, or at least what appears in media, wherein any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, wit…

I understand that there are legitimate reasons that someone may need assistance. My problem is with this nonsensical mentality that, without any actual statistics, people automatic…

> but when you're in a situation with no support things feel a lot different. The fact that things feel different in hard times does not change whether objectively they are right o…

Are you sure that the problem doesn't actually exist in Europe and Canada? Are you sure it isn't offset by a culture where the young are expected to care more for their elders?

>Her savings long gone, and having never done much long-term financial planning And so again we are expected to pay for the mistakes of others. What incentive is there to save if y…

How long until Facebook literally asks for my soul?

Awesome, but to me this stuff is also terrifying, and I can't quite place why. Something about dissecting intelligence, and the potential that our own minds process things similarl…

So leave Cali. What is with this entitlement to live anywhere we want for any price we want?

Weird how you haven't considered population density, or housing safety regulations, or the state of the economy, or the average productivity of immigrants looking for a better life…

Right, the solution is to give addicts more money to buy drugs. I suppose that'll solve the problem when they inevitably OD and we can stop wasting our money on them. I'm not speak…

Maybe some of us prefer not deincentivizing work and creating an even larger subpopulation which is entirely dependent on government and won't be employable for generations? We liv…

But you're ignoring the fact that bitcoin is about more than simply moving money. There is value in security and decentralization. Further, GDP ignores consumption, it is gross pro…

Everyone is happy to sentationalize the amount of energy that the bitcoin network uses, but no one ever mentions how much energy use is acceptable. Nor does anyone seem to attempt …

Of course. This kind of power is so easy to abuse. Unfortunately, google and amazon are a little harder to abandon than fb because of their utility...

That was one of the final straws for me. I don't think anyone should trust Facebook with enough information to completely take over someone's real life identity. FB feels authorita…

You're right, I misspoke. My point I think still stands - there are something like 1-2 thousand different Cryptos, many without ICOs, but there is little value in purchasing them, …

While I suspected the same, after reading the article, the author does not conflate the bursting of the crypto bubble with the price of BTC. After this realization I was able to se…

I think many crypto-currencies (with and without ICOs) are rather obvious cash grabs that provide no actual value beyond speculation (e.g. dogecoin); was something comparable going…

Isn't it bad science to suppress findings? Where does one draw the line? Suppression of results introduces subjectivity and allows for injection of agenda into what should be an ob…

I remember when CNET was trustworthy, and not a giant, malware ridden advertisement...

Serious suggestion: consider amphetamines. Dangerous in excess, but not unlike any other double edged tool, relatively safe when used responsibly. Edit: faceless downvotes? How abo…

I wonder how many of those with the qualifications to be selected for a trip to mars would make such a sacrifice. If you knew you weren't coming back, would you still be willing to…

No, the point is that in 1984 you had doublespeak, where people used words in ways that were contradictory to their meaning[0] - in the way that the GP claims that prohibiting filt…