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I'm sure you'd agree that there would be a substantial amount of support for these protests, and similarly more for any country or executive that would align itself with the protes…

At times my friend it helps to drop the script and actually read what is said.

I think you make a great point. From my perspective there are some things that cannot be reasonably proven that people may have different views on. For instance I'm sure you'd agre…

The original post I was responding to was pondering what would happen if the NBA pulled out. In order to try to predict this it's important to try to accurately characterize how pe…

That's awesome to hear, but I expect you must see you would be a very small minority. Most people now a days seem to base their worldview not on any system of consistent ethics, bu…

I'd distinguish between prepping and doomsday types. Prepping can be as simple as having some basic supplies and nonperishable goods such that you're not going to die if, for any r…

Reverse the situation and imagine how you would feel. Say China was running extensive media in favor of an increasingly China-friendly group within the US equally unpopular with bo…

We hit "peak university" in 2011. [1] In 2017 there were 1.25 million fewer enrolled students than in 2010. But this [2] is the zinger: in that same time frame, more than 300 new d…

Why would it be hidden away in some settings instead of right in your face with a nice fat button "Change how my videos are recommended..."? Even beyond that though, most online pl…

There's a very simple solution here that avoids any and all bias and hidden agendas: simply make everything transparent. - Users get to create their own profile. For instance in yo…

I'm curious why people aren't seeing China as, at least potentially, a very big customer. They have hundreds of millions of people with limited to no internet access, in spite of a…

When forming opinions on things like this, I think its important to see what happened in context. This [1] is the entire, in context, video of the controversy in question. Unfortun…

Obviously yes it is possible for DDG to determine that result G is "better", and prioritize accordingly. "Better" of course is subjective, but this search is a pretty clear example…

What would you suggest is the minimum evidence necessary to support the view that an ideology promotes violence? - Isolated incidents of violence on behalf of the ideology? - A "su…

Yes, they source their results. This is not the extent of your claims. You were stating that they directly rip from other engines meaning that, in your words, "In order for search …

Which keywords? I just searched (as posted above) for "extent space taco secure". It breaks bing. Yahoo returns results that are closer (including some shared oddities like storage…

You know there's something weird. You could prove your little hypothesis here wrong in less time than it took you to write it. So why state something that's wrong? I tested this by…

You literally have NSA whistle-blowers stating, under oath, that these programs are not legal and the NSA is knowingly and purposefully violating the US constitution. [1] That test…

How would that reset their progress? The leaks have revealed that our secret organizations are pretty open (at least among themselves) about parallel construction. For instance thi…

Apologies on the formatting here. I think citing everything on this topic is absolutely critical since it's absolutely rife with misinformation. Dealing with formatting for extensi…

This isn't how IQ tests work. IQ test results are measured relative to a population. In particular 100 is the mean with a standard deviation of 15. So if you score 115 on an IQ tes…

Imagine two worlds. In one world all people are completely and absolutely identical and unable to change themselves in any meaningful way. In the other world people are all complet…

Normal BMI values are for adults. Child BMI differs somewhat sharply depending on age and gender. This [1] is a tool from the CDC for measuring the BMI of children. For instance a …