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People outside of tech have no concept of what the algorithm does and in general take what’s on their feed at face value. How could they not? The news very often runs stories about…

Americans eat too many calories already. Let us eat some vegetables for a few weeks, it won't kill us.

>The east bay has hundreds of people on a waiting list just for shelter space. There aren't enough beds for the night, let alone supportive housing, so we haven't even come close t…

Small government means not making laws which otherwise interfere in the citizens' ability to make their own choices about how to live. It doesn't have anything to do with the size …

Putting them in jail prevents them from doing things that the taxpayers don't like: building fires under overpasses, leaving needles and human waste in the streets, harassing passe…

There are no simple solutions here. I do believe the homeless ought to be assigned housing by making California’s Project Room Key permanent and national. If you can prove some con…

>ultimately it is an illegal annexation of public land that belongs to the taxpayers and has other intended uses (even if that use is just greenspace or empty land). This is exactl…

Really? I recall netbooks being pretty bad. Cramped keyboards, short battery life, weak processors... the worst of all worlds, really. What attracts you to them?

This was written by a person, not the editorial board of NYT. Could you please back your claims of antisemitism? That is a serious accusation that is unfortunately overused to appl…

I made no statement about whether anyone's actions were justified, only that they made sense given the state of affairs.

This is a the consequence of having an administration that transparently lied at every turn. Even if they were right, no one would believe them.

Oh the users would most certainly be tracked by the government. In fact, that's part of the point. One of the unfortunate byproducts of Parler getting shut down was the loss of vis…

>It would be unusable. Porn is legal, gore is legal, hate speech is legal, as is any threat that’s not likely to cause “specific and imminent lawlessness”. Such is the nature of li…

My vision doesn’t create a distinction between commercial and personal speech. In fact, it does the opposite, by not privileging commercial speech and giving it a special space on …

> There are already tons of sites you can move to if you get banned from a platform, so there is no functional difference. But none of those platforms draw a direct line between th…

Sure! Your account is going to be linked your driver's license. It's your space. Go nuts!

The issue at stake: governments telling private businesses what they can and can't host on their servers. Impact of a government social media: If you get banned from Facebook, you …

To be clear, in my vision of this, people would be allowed to advertise however they want. Businesses could have accounts. But having a space for ads and then using behavioral ad t…

The point is that it settles, once and for all, the role of government in policing social media. If social media really is the replication of the public town square, then one that …

A public option for social media is exactly what I want. Townsquare.us, run by the government, where all speech except that which is literally illegal is allowed. Supreme Court for…

It applies to anything said by the judge in open court. It is intended to elicit a response from the parties. Judges don’t make comments on their thoughts out loud for the benefit …

>but it seems like there's at least some indication of how she feels about it. This is not true. The judge's job is to follow pertinent line of inquiries to the case and get respon…

This is because you are translating your words to fit the medium. It’s a reduction. This is exactly what DHH folks have to do, except it’s to practically a different language.

It’s a combination of a few things: (1) Tech demands a lot from its employees. We are dedicating a significant portion of our waking hours. They expect us to believe in their missi…

> I think Apple's point is they think users are too dumb to handle that and they don't want user ignorance to reflect poorly on them or their product experience. And I sympathize w…