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You can learn lots of interesting things by invading people's privacy. I responded to the argument you linked. You're avoiding a more interesting discussion on the topic. Push the …

If my workplace announced that policy I'd just assume they wanted to know how productive I actually was. I would leave on time to signal that I had an appropriate workload.

I can solve the privacy problem by not using their products? I disagree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter Also, my own personal privacy is less secure if it'…

Facebook beat them to it... that's the whole reason for tagged images imo. Then they can relate identities with each other and with exif gps data to track their movements over time…

As if the U.S. wouldn't do the same thing if they were in the position of Russia . And yet we complain...

Maybe they envy us; Maybe they merely envy themselves in a world without us antagonizing them. Dismissing the latter as if it were the former is disingenuous douchebaggery. "I'm no…

It usually means asocial. This same problem shows up with atheist and antitheist. Also, even used correctly antisocial doesn't necessarily imply violent. It can but ultimately "ant…

What even is a Nazi at this point except for an instance of #2? If #1 justifies any means of opposition then we're already Nazi's. It's just radical egoism on a national scale.

It's too late to edit. If I could I'd change it to "the previous generation seems to assume..."

I didn't intend for my statements to be absolute. I could have thrown in some seem to s and generally s but I felt like the "at least in my case" covered it. I've spoken to older p…

I realize you were joking but "get of my lawn" is normally something that the rich say to the poor. In this situation it's the opposite. Also, I'm young enough to be in the "next g…

Some dreams are nightmares.

Non-technical managers often fail to account for the Inventor's Paradox [1]. They assume more general solutions will necessarily require more resources. This is often not the case …

The premise of the matrix violates the first law of thermodynamics; It's just a plot device.

All it takes is one incident to indicate the possibility that something can occur. It can profoundly change your outlook on the world. Depending on the event this can be irreversib…

Is there a public link for that?

Have you seen the Live Free or Die Hard [1] fire sale? Also, the original Deus Ex has the New Dark Age [2] ending. Both are similar to what you've described. 1: http://diehard.wiki…