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I'm sorry but I don't take your anecdotes seriously. I've seen too many legitimate uses of police force described as "police brutality" recently to take accusations of police bruta…

This is false. Socio-economically disadvantaged areas genuinely have more crime than elsewhere. They require more policing as a result. Without more policing, the crime problems ge…

And if they accurately predict where crime will occur, they will reduce crime in those neighborhoods. It's likely that they would be able to get good results.

That's like telling someone planning on getting their driver's license to watch The Fast and the Furious as if it has any relation to actual driving anyone encounters.

GP's really should go away. We need specialists and technicians to perform tests when necessary. Medical training for everyone but surgeons should not take more than 5 total years …

In the same genre, I recommend "Countdown to Zero Day" which looks at Stuxnet and Flame and the events surrounding their creation, deployment and aftermath.

Pretend you're a politician and go tell some poor US kids or young professionals that. Ideally we are all together in the human family, but practically a Democratic country's citiz…

Not astroturfing. Technically underpaying is illegal but there are ways around paying an H1-B worker what a US citizen might receive. Title reduction, etc. Even if the total paid i…

One thing to remember is that in many cases H1-B workers are brought over by sponsoring companies which take a huge cut (I know cases of 40% or more) out of their salaries for the …

H1-B was intended for highly skilled workers that the US had a real shortage of. But now it's just being abused to bring in captive workers that are willing to accept lower wages a…

Hooray for a few corporations controlling almost everything we see online! It's ok because it's "my side" that has the power! Principles be damned, life is a power grab and I'm on …

What you're referring to is the codified freedom of speech protection in the Constitution. That's not what I'm referring to. My post is about the ideal of freedom of speech. There …

There was a time when the Left was opposed on principle to our lives being controlled by the whims of huge corporations. Ironically when this monopolistic control extends to our sp…

Exactly. Not just that, when the Obama used social media targeted advertising to its advantage it was fawned over in the media. Cambridge Analytica was targeted purely because they…

Are conservative statements on, say, ending illegal immigration really any more controversial than leftist statements on encouraging illegal immigration? Far more than half of Amer…

Monopolies are able to exist precisely because it's hard to challenge them. That's why people saying "the free market will sort things out" with regard to free speech are deluding …

> "On the recent protests, ZeroHedge published an article claiming that protests were fake, while The Federalist published an article claiming the media had been lying about lootin…

Yes.

What's harder: gaining admission to a prestigious private high school that costs $50,000 a year or getting a few cheap SAT test books, watching some free YouTube videos and practic…

Ah, those pesky standardized tests. Sure they're the hardest part of admissions to game and are a major part of establishing an even intellectual playing field for applicants, but …