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Pfft. LOL. Read Nadine Strossen. Learn a little. Stop using phrases you heard somebody dumber than you say.

I'm a fan of Google Maps and I'm not an American. For fun, I will often plunk myself down into an American city in street view and outside of the major metropolitan areas on the co…

> Government will just leak more important info. Give it a rest. When's the last time a Canadian government agency reported a breach of the size that we typically hear about on a n…

"sharing economy" Found the dissonance. Tell us more about magic elves and lizard people.

You clearly haven't got the first clue about how Americans live. In 90% of America, you need a car. It's not debatable. This is a country that has spent the last 70 years spreading…

The sail. You're welcome.

Chang's great.

Me too. At the very least you'd expect them to be given huge severance packages of a few hundred million dollars, as per American incompetence/fraud in the financial and tech secto…

Define "harm".

" if we stop ascribing human qualities to gigantic corporations. " I guess we'll stop ascribing those qualities when they stop claiming them - as an effort at branding themselves.

Once upon a time, the curator of each projected 'self' was biologically centralized and understood that each version of who we were had to be carefully parsed. There was 'out with …

> We really shouldn't use anthropomorphization of a company to justify inhumanity in us And yet... what is the purpose of branding, but to 'humanize' a service or product produced …

The most interesting part of this is how indifferent people are to it. I live in Canada. We've had Food Banks for 35 years. When they started, there were a few "Oh that's too bad" …

THere's a reason you require a license to drive. It has something to do with accountability. I have zero problems with making car drivers more accountable and responsible for the 3…

>I would love to see public sector unions eliminated in the city, if not nationwide. They just make things worse for everyone. Society needs an alternative to the union system in t…

>Answering the question of "how the internet works" is so open-ended that apparently, some tech interviewers like to use it for evaluating job candidates. I assume they hand the ca…

Just another corporation stepping in to do the work an ignorant, ineffective populace is too stupid to demand from their political representatives.

The question about what you'd do with a BI really relates to each of our ideas about what work is and what it's for. The other aspect not being discussed is how sustainable is the …

Very good point re: "activist shareholders". Too few people appreciate what can happen when corps aren't seen to be squeezing out every last drop...