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KF never topped the app store charts, nor had the widespread defense that Tea did.

Citizens United did not overturn the general body of antitrust law...

Why would they fear people who adblock leaving the platform?

Deepfakes?

Yep. Maybe there will be a net reduction in jobs but I can't help but feel like catastrophic 90% reductions involve "lump of labor"-type fallacies where we just imagine taking the …

>How many Reddit users knew they were agreeing in the future for Reddit to sell the content they wrote to make money for Reddit, not them? Despite my low opinion of Redditors, I be…

Are you seriously attributing public sector bureaucratic dysfunction to some sort of subversive public sector conservative operatives, or vague regulatory poison pills that you can…

>If "AI ethics" means being run by so-called rationalists and Effective Altruists then it has nothing to do with ethics or doing anything for the benefit of all humanity. Many woul…

The reddit moderators who cashed out were not the ones who were shutting down the service. They simply had insider information that allowed them to move first with this information…

Demand for an asset fell so its price dropped. Nothing scammy about this.

Do you seriously think that Andreesen would advocate for technological progress regardless of an arbitrarily high cost to human welfare?

>Andreessen’s newly espoused ideology did not spring up in a vacuum. Instead, it’s part of a broader movement that seeks to take all the guardrails off of technological development…

A growing number of Americans consider sclerosis to be a virtue, as long as it can be seen as a natural result of extreme safetyism.

>If I earned profits from a VC fund in San Francisco what are the chances of me paying only UK tax on that? You can also tax the fund directly and the corporations they invested in…

It will bring them back to have their wealth arbitrarily expropriated? Yeah I doubt it. Never mind that it's unclear what it means to "deny them access to the US market" when these…

As a response they move their wealth overseas and renounce their citizenship if necessary. What strategy from the banana republic playbook would you like to see the State employ ne…

The notion that "talking to a poor person" would somehow illuminate any of the issues that the author is talking about is laughable. Folk economic beliefs are notoriously terrible.…

I mean, if that were truly the case we'd see companies hovering around RTO numbers that just barely guaranteed these benefits - so far I haven't seen any stories to this effect, so…

I mean, yes it's bullshit to try to apply RTO policies on remote workers that were hired as remote workers. It's not even a "return" in that scenario, properly understood. And IANA…

Yeah, when the primary complaint about Twitter is "other people are using it to say things I dislike", then that seems like a pretty.. motivated critique of the platform.

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>At what point can we finally admit there is a coordinated war on against freedom of expression online? Just call it a war of hate speech or "disinformation" instead and plenty of …

>I don't think most powermods really revolted Well, at least a substantial minority did. >I am very worried about the "hobbyist mods". And yea, they weren't talked about for the sa…