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To be fair, google spends more than comcast because google, along with facebook, are constantly being attacked by the media and special interest groups. If comcast was being attack…

China has 7% of the world's fresh water but that 7% can easily sustain every human being on earth. China controls the tibetan plateau which is the source of the water for a signifi…

It most definitely is not illegal. Many colleges have race and gender based quota systems. Governments have race and gender quota systems. Many federal, state and local governments…

The authorities just wanted to make an example of him and scare the masses. Reminds me of the excellent PBS documentary about the financial crisis. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli…

It isn't an argument against action. It is an argument against exaggeration and hyperbole though. What studies are you referring to? In any case, a small change in suicide rates wo…

"Students attending schools located near and downwind from busy highways had lower rates of academic performance, higher absenteeism and higher rates of disciplinary problems than …

Everyone here is celebrating "people leaving facebook" as if it is a victory. People are simply moving from facebook to instragram as instragram is viewed as more "hip" and "young"…

The data clearly doesn't not say what you claim. As for trending? I wouldn't call anything going from 1.9% of deaths to 2% of deaths as trending. Focusing on the 2% rather than the…

There isn't a "safe or bug free" codebase in any language for any complex software project. The only code that you could possibly verify as "safe" are simplest of programs. There i…

About 1.9 million deaths in the US. About 45K or 2% of those are suicides. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm And people here are saying that is the national emergency? Th…

Sometimes I wonder if all journalists do is browse reddit all day. Invariably, something I see on reddit gets a "news" article a few months later. The last blockbuster apparently h…

Who is denying that sleep has rejuvenative benefit? I'm not. I know that sleep has a rejuvenative benefit. Please try reading my comment or following the thread. I'll paste it here…

Or it's just cnbc social media team spamming social media. Anything is possible in this brave new world.

The Central Bank isn't regulated, isn't transparent and certainly doesn't have any external auditors either. I don't think you understand how cryptocurrencies, central banks and re…

There is no denying that sleep is beneficial and I agree with that assertion. I was specifically addressing his point about the drawbacks of sleep - "There are several survival dra…

How is that any different than the new yorker or traditional media spreading lies and hate about jussie smollet, covington or any other incident and causing mentally unstable peopl…

Is that why reddit is so popular? It was "toxic" and yet it grew and normal people used it in droves. Your argument contradicts itself. Most people don't mind reddit or usenet or t…

What about it? What you find "toxic", others might not find "toxic". That's my point. And if there is "toxicity" in usenet, don't use it. Or use the newsgroups that you find less "…

Actually, sleep would have been evolutionarily beneficial to us since we can't see well at night and it would keep us out of way of predators at night. Sleep wouldn't be a drawback…

"Detoxify"? Reddit and the internet was fine until the establishment decided to take control of it and censor it. If people didn't like reddit's or the internet's "toxicity", they …

The problem is that "civilization" and "china" are hard to define. What we can say is that chinese civilization came into existence a long time ago. Then a serious of dynasty ( som…

There really isn't a "western civilization". It's a fairly recent geopolitical term made for political purposes. There is greco or more expansively greco-roman civilization that we…

Interesting point. But I wonder, why not expand the oscars by including all movies regardless of platform? Make the oscars, a movie awards and advertisement show and the emmy's a t…

You put a lot of trust in multinational corporations. Given the history of price fixing, cutting corners, etc to make an extra buck, I'm not sure I'd be so trusting. If your assert…

You bring up an interesting point. What makes a movie a movie? Does it matter where a movie is watched? Most movies are watched on monitors/tv. If I watch Infinity War on netflix, …