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You worked as a financial analyst but yet don't seem to grasp the monumental difference between "women earn 80 percent less than men", which you cited above as the common narrative…

I don't think the author was trying to excuse Facebook's business model by bringing up Cruz. She was pointing out that if this 'psychological profiling' technique from CA was reall…

Author of the article is the same guy who, some years ago, organized a boycott of Elsevier journals due to their extortionate charges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Kno…

Buzzfeed accusing others of using methods akin to religious indoctrination, that's quite a howler.

That's because there's an army of people who are quick to discredit anything coming from blogs and lesser known sources as bunk while falling all over themselves for traditional ne…

Neither Deep Blue nor the superior chess playing engines running on PC hardware that came afterwards used machine learning. They relied on basic heuristics as humans do to numerica…

Kasparov apparently continues to believe that his expertise in chess transfers to other disciplines. This isn't an uncommon phenomenon, even for people with more serious qualificat…

Setting aside formal debates among politicians, if you want to talk about why discussion of contentious topics by average Joes and Janes has degenerated into its current state of p…

Staying silent isn't an endorsement of the status quo. Similarly, we shouldn't have any expectation that company X or Hollywood celebrity Y owes it to us to denounce whatever the t…

Dropbox following the tried and true path of taking credit for tangentially "enabling" the contributions of others. Kind of reminiscent of Apple's statements about the massive impa…

Were you deliberately leaving out the 4th possibility of Google concluding 'You know what? It is actually wrong to prioritize certain races and genders as a matter of hiring policy…

Hey, thanks for answering! It's probably closer to the truth that WhatsApp was just insanely overvalued in comparison as FB has been very aggressive in eliminating anyone that thre…

At the time of its sale to Amazon, I remember wondering how twitch could only be worth 1 billion compared to something like WhatsApp being worth 20 billion. It was purely from an e…

I'm scratching my head wondering why they didn't just take the obvious route of offering an optional 'also pay the processing fees' option like paypal does. Phrased in a way that l…

So Waymo was trying (and succeeding) to patent a basic electronic circuits designs that has existed for decades. This is not surprising at all as the grandiose claims of innovation…

You're mistaken. There are two separate messages - a popover that appears at the bottom of the screen every time you browse a page (whether it be the front page, an article, etc.) …

It's not so much the message as its persistence, timing and size. It shows up every time and takes up half the screen. It would also be nice if the reader was given some time to re…

Actually, that would be what happens when mainstream media becomes an echo chamber and is rejected by half the populace.