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That's how it works, rights are stripped away slowly over time and power is concentrated in government hands. It's like boiling a frog, if you try to do it all at once people will …

education isn't the answer because no matter what you do a good chunk of the population simply isn't capable of high skilled jobs. The US military learned that below a certain IQ t…

It reminds me of Calhoun's rat experiments where rat society essentially broke down as population density increased. There were types of rats called "The Beautiful Ones" that are v…

you could make a case that millions of people currently suffer genetic diseases they are born with that have the potential to be cured using this technology if it's developed

according to MIT innovation has slowed dramatically since the 50's and as a result general productivity growth that has been boosted by technology since the industrial revolution h…

people have done crazier things for less money Fake your death, get some plastic surgery done, enjoy life with those $200 million dollars

>How is anything a “status symbol” with over 30%-50% market share in industrialized nations? That's my point, when it came out the marketing around the iPhone was how using apple m…

>I wish Apple operated that way, as lowering Apple device price will very likely increase the absolute amount of dollars coming into their back acct. I've always thought they shoul…

Does "Islamophobia" ring a bell? It's a term made up to demean anybody with concerns of how Muslims assimilate with western civilization and implies those concerns are irrational o…

US actually produces the most oil of any country now. I'd like to see someone do the math and see if it would be cheaper to leave the middle east and save money on wars and just su…

I was more pointing out how either side can hypocritically rationalize things that run counter to their supposed beliefs because they make money off being hypocrites. Nobody thinks…

basically every claim is sourced as far as I can tell. Schmidt is pretty entrenched with Clinton considering he started a company dedicated to using tech to get her elected, Ground…

It's fascinating how obviously smart people can rationalize their actions. Schmidt and Google claim to be "progressive" but that kind of rationale of "nothing to hide" would mean t…

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ A good read on Google and Eric Schmidt's relationship with the State Department and federal government in general "There was noth…

There's also the fact that the MSM has made complete asses of themselves over the last few years. Has "Fake News" ever knocked trillions of dollars off the stock market because the…

The best you can really do is point them in the right direction and help them when they get stuck, but learning to code really requires motivation that only they can provide

Germany is currently going through with NordStream 2, a plan that gives billions to Russia. Simultaneously, the US is expected to spend billions protecting Germany and the EU from …

>Just say that differences are in 99% shaped by environment and you are fine You can find flaws and inconsistencies in their logic easily though. People have no issue with saying t…

Guns, Germs, and Steel is essentially pop science by a guy with next to no expertise in many of the areas he bases his theories on like geography. Germs - Ignores the fact that Eur…

Common sense would tell you there's some truth to it. For centuries we killed murderers and rapists and thus removed them from the gene pool. Data shows testosterone levels, which …

>Negative coverage doesn't make them biased, undeserved negative bias does. Whether it's deserved or not is a debate for elsewhere. That's the point, you can report a bad story abo…

Statistically Fox is the least biased MSM outlet, they are 52% negative towards Trump, compared to over 90% for the others https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/…

>Where does the growth come next though I'm amazed they haven't taken a crack at Google with a search engine in their app. Imagine how valuable combining Facebook's data with the u…

The US didn't have an income tax at all until the 20th century, at least at the federal level