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It seems like this functionality should be part of YouTube itself, at least as an option settable by the uploader.

If philanthropy became a bigger part of our culture, I believe we could achieve something similar to basic income. Of course, that starts with individuals getting in the habit of g…

I have been on Reddit for eight years, and only came out with my name today. People should be encouraged to use aliases for any number of reasons. To name a few: * You should be ab…

"Choose what not to learn (while being outwardly supportive of endless learning)." So that's why I didn't hear back from the (initially enthusiastic) Google recruiter. (edit): I re…

The Snowden documents revealed that Germans visiting the Tor project website would be subject to permanent NSA surveillance. Does that make you more or less likely to click the lin…

It's also not reasonable for the public to be excluded from the conversation of how that data is handled.

I don't think "tyranny of the majority" applies here. The proposed system makes minority opinions more visible, if anything. There would even be an incentive to have a minority opi…

He is exploring how the Internet might be used to save civilization. What constitutes an "important idea" in your book?

Part of this realization came to me because of an xkcd comic I read recently. Last year there were many revealed instances of the government violating the 4th Amendment through the…

Reddit actually brands itself as a "platform for online communities". Given the nature of subreddits, this does not seem like an unfair characterization.

There are a lot of good use cases for throwaways (suppose a former cult member wanted to share their experiences, for example). And the fact that an account is brand new is also a …

This made me realize: Reddit/HN wouldn't be nearly as valuable without usernames. They allow you to scan someone's posts to see if they have a history of being mean, intellectually…

Reasoning: an essay is a path/list of ideas, whereas a comment thread is a "manypath"/directed-graph of ideas. So the claim can be reduced to "'graph' is as fundamental a data stru…

If Twitter and Yahoo really wanted to disclose this information, there is nothing the government could do to stop them. Civil disobedience is one of the most important tools we hav…

This post does a great job of showing a simple truth that many people forget: when you genuinely help a person, you are also helping everyone in that person's "sphere". There is a …

A service that facilitates company matching of employee donations to non-political charities. Ideally, the service should make it as effortless as possible for all participants: em…

This seems unlikely to be a "new" idea, but I stumbled into it by accident and thought it was cool. Java source code below: // This class is in the public domain. public class Numb…

Edward Snowden is not currently in a country with press freedoms, and people have to pick their battles. Snowden has already picked some pretty huge battles. Besides, if you've bee…

Mayor McGinn brought this up in his recent /r/Seattle AMA (worth reading if you're at all interested in the race): http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1ox3gd/my_name_is_m...

If I scroll the Reddit frontpage (without being logged in), I am not seeing any NSA stories, despite being on the top of /r/WorldNews, /r/news, etc. Anyone know the story behind th…