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I think the Tesla fanboys who bought these would have spent $1500 on a coffee mug if Musk had asked them to. Would have had better margins than decorative surfboards but I guess th…

> I said "you're by yourself". Forget the magazines, they are the crappiest magazines ever. The pages are sticky, they are awful. I assumed you meant "by myself" as in "not with an…

So if Google is a monopoly, what should be done about it? Split it up into separate, competing mini-Googles? Keep fining them more and more money until they stop anti-competitive p…

I find it rather easy to use android without selling my soul to Google. In fact, I use android on a Google Pixel 2 on Google's own Project Fi network and yet I don't feel as if I'v…

If banking and internet services are so vital that we justify the existence of libraries because they provide access to them, then the Government should be responsible for providin…

> Social media apps are easy to uninstall They're also easy to reinstall, and often times have good enough mobile web clients. Can't uninstall the browser, unfortunately.

It shouldn't surprise us that Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Reddit are more widely addictive than alcohol. They are designed to be addictive, because it's good for business.

> Just don‘t twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat or whatever you do 24/7 The point is that choosing to not do these things is hard for a lot of us. Getting rid of a smartphone i…

Just sit and think. Watch other people. Read the old Vogue magazines. Listen to the conversations between employees. A lot of the time there will be a TV on or some music playing. …

I use Spotify on multiple devices every day and didn't notice anything about Drake recently, so it must not have been that effective a promotion.

Maybe someday we will all realize that daily fluctuations in a company's market cap don't matter. Just because something happened doesn't make it news.

Credit cards are an excellent tool as long as you don't accrue debt with them. I get 1.5%-2% cash back with everything purchased with it. I'd be losing money by using a debit card …

There are more people programming for intellectual reasons now than ever before in absolute numbers. However, that larger absolute number is a much smaller proportion of the total …

But you're the one using these inventions as justification for future space exploration - shouldn't the burden of proof fall on the one making the claim?

> Well, unless we outlaw reproduction without government approval we will hit the limit of what the planet can support as far as human life. The birth rates of richer nations are s…

> But you take them for granted and so it is easy for you to make value judgments regarding how money is spent. It's rude to make such assumptions about me. I do not take the posit…

You can't just point to a list of inventions that came from research in space exploration - you also have to make a case that these inventions would have otherwise not come about, …

It's hard to pinpoint an exact generation where I stop caring. Here's how I like to think of it. If every human alive today died instantly and painlessly, ending the human species …

Because I care to what happens about all living humans today. I simply don't care about the long term survival of our species. Spreading across the galaxy or the universe so that t…

> Getting off this rock is the first step towards getting all of our eggs out of one basket. Yes it is, but why should I care whether all of our eggs are in one basket, or two bask…

The real question here is why bother spending 1% of our GDP on space exploration? What tangible benefits is it going to bring, and why are those benefits worth more than the benefi…

It's also entirely possible that the cure for all forms of cancer is a diet consisting entirely of frosted flakes, and that spending $400B researching the effects of all-cereal die…

> why are you skeptics so certain that it's just another fad diet that will come and go? Because, like most skeptics, we have seen this pattern before. Supposed scientific support …

Obama's approval rating was above 50% for his last year in office, so I wouldn't say that people were particularly unhappy with him. Honestly, I think he could have won a 3rd term …