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Millions of people are wrong.

You can also have investors that buy into a company because it is counterproductive to their goals. Not all investments are meant to produce financial profit.

I do the same, but it seems that more and more reddit comments are also astroturfed so my faith in them is faltering. Finding authentic recommendations at this point is extremely t…

While I like the idea of pedestrian areas, it does feel like this is another angle for our elites to prepare the lower classes for austerity. Owning your own home, eating meat, bei…

Same here. Crazy to think that I've been using it for over 15 years and never had a reason to change. I've tried other browsers, but none of them gave me a compelling reason to con…

I heard somebody make a similar argument one time in regards to Common Lisp. He said that with Java you would have to wait several years sometimes to get a feature (assuming the la…

Their programs are simple and works well at the job for which they are intended. Why should I not use good software just because the developers' politics are not in vogue?

"Professional journalist" just means you're a blogger that gets paid. And everybody has standards. Some people just like to wave theirs around a little more.

I still use a T420 and T430. Both are great for development use. The screens are lacking, but when you spend most of your time in the terminal or browser, you don't really notice.

I don't get the Russia hate. Sure they have problems as a country, but how does that affect the average user? I would think that since I don't live there I can trust Russian compan…

Why do we spend billions of dollars on a lifestyle disease instead of putting that money towards other concerns like cancer? Why does our society worry about a disease that is larg…

Even disregarding the many questionable aspects of consumerism, think about how many developers you know that have dedicated their entire ability to creating better advertising. Th…

Can you show me some examples of cheap junk food? A bag of chips and a soda costs about the same here as a pound of chicken or pork and any one vegetable side. Go down the frozen m…

Can I ask why this comment was detached? I feel it was relevant to the point the OP was making concerning legislation vs popularity among the citizenry.

Same-sex marriage never achieved enough support to be legalized [0][1]. It was voted against throughout the country including liberal states such as California. Same-sex marriage w…

No problem. I don't see a problem with exclusionary platforms as long as they aren't using their extreme dominance in multiple areas to maintain a monopoly. I guess what I am looki…

A slippery slope is only a fallacy if you can't demonstrate a downward slide. Once you can demonstrate that slide, the issue needs to be taken more seriously. I believe that over t…

Or maybe instead of this being a conspiracy of brigades, more people are waking up the dangers of too much control in the hands of a few powerful people?

How about they disallow all the illegal content you are using as examples? Legal speech should not be censored.

Facebook is just as restrictive as Google. Vimeo doesn't compare to YouTube in any way. To follow the analogy of the parent comment, Vimeo is like only being able to publish on the…

As a side note, his home town, Charlottesville, canceled the holiday celebrating Thomas Jefferson's birthday[0][1]. It seems to me that our society is too focused on condemning his…

A lot of people like myself just don't care anymore. I don't know a single publication that I really trust anymore. All of them have heavy bias or just outright lie. As important a…

It's not apparent to me from the article that this woman is making a serious attempt to make up for those absences. That she wrote this almost seems like a celebration of her choic…

Those dads are shitty parents too.