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Super interesting idea. I can't seem to find out how they actually operate though. It seems like this would be prone to general abuse with if an individual electing little/no/catas…

This. Lifestyle creep at the social level. Smart Phones, dishwashers, Netflix and so on. You CAN still find multi-bedroom homes w/in an hour of large metros that a single income ca…

Complete speculation, but this sounds like a decline of community, where interactions are more transactional rather than personal.

You're neglecting to address enforcement issues such as Criminal Vagrancy which is strictly enforced in some locales and lax in others.

From a supply and demand side, Real Estate Developers would gravitate to high value developments due to potential for making higher returns as well as the prestige in building "fan…

This premise is interesting in that you are basically saying that homelessness is progressive. I am not sure that your levels encompass all types of homeless out there, given that …

These conversations pop up every now and again on HN. I was getting frustrated with Google Maps a few years ago, when I read one of these articles on here about how Apple Maps is b…

I mean, the use case is (generally) providing a verifiable transaction chain. We have complex processes in place for doing this IRL right now for assets such as real estate deeds, …

Exactly true. However the Russian investigation spanned years. These things take a lot of time to work through the investigative process. Take a look here, https://hereistheevidenc…

Great citations. I think the general point is that there are more specific examples of election irregularities than there are specific examples of Russia interfering. you add this …

I think search algorithms still have a long way to go to really understand the intention. Try your image search results for "white person" "black person" "asian person" "white inve…

The fed provides a boost when demand-side goes down; that's one of its roles in emergencies. Their move here didn't make sense since the initial impact was largely supply-side (dem…

Hard to say what's causing this. try "is abortion good or bad" on Google vs Bing and you get very different results. Bing provides evenhanded results and Google is almost entirely …

Not exactly. There is an implicit expectation of truth when searching on Google, sort of like an encyclopedia. The interference happens when the results do not match reality. Try t…

Is there a service or company that lists this data? I'm curious about what types of data are available.

Well, PII is a bit of a nebulous term. Some websites still transfer some signup/user info in url parameters or unencrypted responses. We would even see SSNs pop up now and then. Mo…

I wasn't responsible for the data intake, but I know that the data was extensive, and always included time on page, full URL, other request information (often post stuff). I know t…

Boy have I got a surprise for you. I was an engineer at a web analytics firm a decade ago and yes, ISPs have your web browsing data and are selling it left and right. Also apps, Ce…

This is all well and good for information retrieval, but people are making decisions based on information from search results. In your vegetarian example, what if 51% of people wer…