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Easy to say this when the original commenter incorrectly described Tobias' comments. He suggested that those who pay more in taxes should have a greater say in how the government i…

I kinda love that you misspelled 'gramma' when saying this model respects it a lot.

Maybe worth mentioning that the founding fathers in the US believed only property owners should vote.

This is simply untrue, there are no full auto handguns legally sold to the public. Semiautomatic yes. And yes, some guns are way too easy to convert to full auto.

I love that you wrote 6 paragraphs and linked to a medium post all without actually answering the question posed by the comment you replied to.

Someone needs to make an inverse Krugman index like the one they did for Jim Cramer. You could make an argument that the Yuan could be an alternative to USD as a mechanism of inter…

You assume they won't be able to find anyone to come in at junior, midcareer, or senior levels in a few years (when you say the field is going to "implode violently"). Hint: they w…

Just don't ask it to tell you the events of June 4, 1989.

The 4th amendment doesn't apply to property of your employer. They can do pretty much whatever they want in terms of configuration, tracking, and auto-loading software on it.

And all of Apple's products are much more expensive in the EU. In Austria, a MacBook Air starts at EUR1199, and the same device starts at USD1099. At today's exchange rate, that Eu…

I would posit that many EU citizens are still living with the idea of their historic economic outperformance even though it has not been true for many years.

I dont get this at all...how does the administration or people within it get a "money pump" from headlines?

What bribery are you talking about?

You mean like when the Obama administration wasn't petty and didn't jail a journalist for not revealing sources on a story with no real importance and merit? Every administration i…

This does not restrict messaging platforms like iMessage, which are the first "social media" most kids really use, and on which they can be bullied, groomed, etc. Parents still nee…

I'm going to get flamed for this, but I think this is one less-focused-on benefit of buying a single family home. You're responsible for the maintenance but if you want to or have …

At least for meta, its employees, and its customers (advertisers), and its users, you can infer easily why they are involved. Researchers have other motivations like currying favor…

I think the EU would prefer wars not happen and that they never have to think about defending their borders or themselves. This is fantasy land, but the cafes and museums and old c…

Dont make the assumption that the laws and regulations in place respect human rights and are a 100% good. They also entrench EU bureaucratic power (and thus the power of the minist…

"The choice is rarely "comply or quit." It is often "comply here, and do the fuller thing somewhere else." Unless the platform is iOS, in which case it's "comply here or gtfo".

I don't like needless surveillance either but we have people (and kids!) getting shot all over the city, and juries and judges that won't do anything without video or photographic …

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You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada? It's concentration of nodes in the graph that makes SV unlike any oth…

"teachers should be paid more" isn't an argument, it's a statement. But perhaps I've made your point for you.

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