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It’s not about demonizing, it’s about bringing it under control. Silicon Valley behemoths cooperate with the US government in a way that TikTok does not.

That doesn't make nearly as good of a headline. During the pandemic there were very similar claims about the massive growth in wealth of the top 1%, where the graph conveniently st…

Unlike other professions, academics rarely face consequences for being wrong. A doctor who makes a bad diagnosis risks malpractice, a civil engineer risks their license, and so on.…

Rich != Smart

Businesses and the free market are not an inherent good; they exist for the benefit of people and not the other way around. Gambling companies, drug dealers, and scammers share a b…

Wow! Just discovered the Spotlight customization and it is so much faster and more useful when you remove certain locations and turn off definitions and Siri suggestions.

Can I get dibs on your username?

It'd be great to expose shady business, but somebody has to enforce the forced transparency and that's a LOT of power. Whoever has that power can pretty easily keep privacy for the…

The point of human rights is to protect the underprivileged - the privileged of any given society don’t need to have these protections because they are at the top of the social hie…

If the truth is that zoning is the only obstacle holding us back from idyllic, beautiful mixed-density cities, then I'm showing my ignorance, but I'm not convinced that it is. From…

Even if they could, they wouldn't. The modern trend is demolishing beautiful, sustainably-built housing with shoddy, ugly, mass-produced 5-over-1s.

In a community like HN, where most people work on making rocks think, it’s no surprise when most people start applying the logic backwards: that since we think, we can be no more c…

Let’s not forget that society is also out to kill you and utilize you. HN commenters are near the top of the food chain, while exploited third-world workers and oppressed groups ar…

Alternatively, discussing Elon Musk makes people act like children. Something to think about...

Swearing too much comes across as trying to seem cool or tough, and it usually has the opposite effect.

There will certainly be a lot of money to be had selling products and ideologies to the mass consumer via cheap mass-generated hyper-targeted content. That's not too far of a leap …

Yes, they are different, but it’s extremely easy to conflate them if the skepticism is contrary to the interests of the powerful and you hold the power to censor.

Hence the recent crackdown on “misinformation”. Skepticism and dissent can’t be prevented, but its spread can be suppressed. Many otherwise good people have fallen hook line and si…

China and the USA are vastly different countries, in almost every single way that modern states can be different. You're comparing apples to oranges.

"We" didn't kill anybody, they died of a highly transmissible and novel disease for which there was no cure and no vaccine for over a year. There was no possible way that death cou…

Why not just say U.S. instead of North America?

This is the line that every extremist group uses to justify their horrible acts. Weaponizing open source is such an awful precedent. There are extremist groups of every shade who h…

> Sanctity of life occurred gradually, and is in part a luxury of abundance. "Thou Shalt Not Kill" was not a product of an abundant, decadent society, and I promise you that Neuman…

It's actually quite concerning and even a little suspicious that so many defamatory comments are linking criticism of the workplace with mental illness.

Do you think we have a responsibility towards people who aren't in the know, or who might have circumstances that make it hard to leave (for example, immigration processing)?