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Balanced by what standard? Don't really need an answer, most of my posts are just to let other individuals know that at one time there were critical thinkers on HN. I've been downv…

Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?

Towards?

no.

I can complain about going out in the rain and getting wet. End of story.

Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.

You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, …

He's not silenced, they just took away the podium that says "sponsored by Google".

Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.

...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code... And once you get …

Microsoft wasn't split. It was informed that they could only do so much product integration.

People can only manipulate millions of others easily when they are led to believe that they should be led.

I thought it was clearly stated. It's just not one of those things that adds to the conversation, except perhaps by demonstrating the same principles of the direct action via the d…

Yes we can set definition of what is bad and what isn't. Enjoy my exercise of it with this downvote.

To my ear that's like saying evolution cannot sustain itself indefinitely. As long as there are generational selective pressures on imperfect replicators, evolution will continue. …

Not sure what the subject of that sentence was; it appears to be passive (and actorless) in the first part but the dependent clause (after "then") seems active voice. What or whom …

Thanks for playing

Tort reform. Some things should be kicked out of the courts at the front door by a legal bouncer.

I believe litigation in the United States is based on the idea that access to the courts to redress grievances (against private individuals or public institutions) is fundamental f…

Portugal was more concerned with getting trade goods from the far east than trying to build up sub-Saharan Africa for most of it's history. It just so happened that when the Scramb…

The "Scramble for Africa" was a particularly late colonization push (late 19th century). Colonization in Africa started after de-colonization was complete in the Americas.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. It's having an idea that can be acted upon that should provide a positive return (in terms of comparable and calculable inputs and outputs). In the c…

Pegging "capitalism" into a teleological historiographic narrative (aimed at justifying non-capital producing collectivist dictatorships) has been around for so long that its retro…

That sounds like the kind of thing that would trip an algorithm.

Like a peacock, it signals the health of the organization that produced it because of the resources brought to bear on otherwise frivolous things.