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If you frame it as an entity that launders the military industrial complex's desires to test weapons, keep congress beholden, and keep conflicts going forever – then work backwards…

thats why if has to be either completely gov controlled or a public/private non-profit. Letting a cadre of companies hold the world economy hostage is just not good for anyone. Thi…

IMPORTANT CONTEXT TO MY ANSWER: There is no such thing as a free market There are 3 suppliers in the world that together have ~90% of global DRAM manufacturing capacity. I did not …

Honestly, the knock on effects of this cartel behavior should concern all countries, and be remediated with expediency. From consumer electronics to the data-center, the rising rea…

1. Same here - but it's only become a problem as protect has gained features (# of cameras stayed the same). I got a UNVR Instant and all the issues went away (I have been waiting …

It would be fine if: Labor was better protected Elections were funded by the gov and any money spent outside of that sent you to jail and confiscated everything from you and your c…

Tax breaks for people who already have more money then they can spend fuel bubbles. It makes number go up even when the economic fundamentals are in the toilet.

I like your takes on this. To me, theres two issues: 1) this push is all driven by big businesses looking to just get free money for nothing, which is why I worry that the EU is so…

Stop treating the astroturfed re-definition as serious. They should be laughed out of the room but corp media gloms on for the fight and then legitimizes it in some peoples minds.

thats not how it works at all. You dont hire someone unqualified just because they tick a box, what kind of insane would that be?

I can tell you, the users on the whole know about as much about tech as a luddite from 1867. I mean, that's a huge draw in the consumer space for mac/ios. Remember the scale were a…

zero. This whole thing feels like a lobbying push, and to be frank, I am more worried about the monied interests who might have bought this kind of lawmaking and what their end gam…

I see this argument all the time - how is it anti competitive if you have to buy a device from apple to use the apps? Its not like anyone can just make an iphone, it's not like the…

Todd, you owe me $20. (Todd said this would never happen) Also, this is great news, and it will be interesting to see what kind of real-world changes in performance this has.

You seem to understand the point exactly... as horrible as it is. (nudging people into certain jobs because they have no choice)

It's important to note that money is fake, and is given value by destroying it (through taxes as a major part of it) This action doesn't change the supply of money in the system, j…

I thought we have inalienable rights, and the constitution is there to carve out where we DONT have them. http://www.notguiltynj.com/our-constitution-doesnt-give-us-r...

It should have been codified into law decades ago, but EVERYONE with few exceptions loves to fundraise off of it. Want to know how you know the US will backslide? I Said it a decad…

If your page is loading, there needs to be good feedback if it not yet interactive. If you click on something that is AJAX-y, you need to provide feedback that yes, you clicked som…

I agree - and will take it one step further: he misses the root causes of "instability", and I bet it tracks directly with the gutting of the middle class starting in the 70's, and…

US TV ruined it. It's entirely different coverage in at least europe, none of this editorializing, profiles, etc etc. Just coverage. I liken it to something Jonathan Demme (paraphr…

Because email is essentially one of the oldest internet applications and also essentially has never changed. That means, as has been stated in this thread a bunch of times, that se…

#1 reason, and, think back to when iOS came out, was security. The knock off effect was it ensured that ios/webkit gained defacto marketshare for each device since there was no oth…

I... have been using win11 on a few machines (gaming and a work/coding computer included) and... it's just a reskin with some long overdue features. The way MS does updates now mea…

And, buying power was wayyyyy stronger for them. As a % of income, housing tended to cost a fraction of what is currently the norm. It's not uncommon for boomers to just have 2-3 p…