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Yes, it's called voting. Unfortunately it seems that in the US the Democrats are more in the pocket of Big Data than the Republicans so it's a choice of 'do I like minorities or pr…

How else can any one justify working for capitalists? I enjoy destroying the environment for future generations so they don't have it too easy?

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Google et al can't focus on his policies because they benefit from them. Or their owners at any rate. The rich will not save us from themselves. But they will put a nice rainbow fl…

If you think the coverage of him is bad now, wait till you see what happens when the digital monopolies are fighting for their lives. One only has to look at what the Murdoch paper…

Microsoft got smacked down by the DoJ hard. Here's hoping that Trump in his second term hits the digital monopolies with the anti-trust legislation they have been flaunting for the…

And down the memory hole it goes. Now flagged and removed from the front page. Someone just doesn't want to face the fact that intolerance is not a virtue to matter what ideas it's…

>I may scrupulously avoid partisan statements on HN You're doing a rather poor job of it. Edit: A downvote and flag in less time than it took to redirect me back to the front page.…

This is the best example of live by the sword die by the sword [0]. Pay for play is a huge issue in journalism, that he was mocking poor white guys with an interest in gaming is ve…

Every community I know that's been started for the goal of 'protecting' some group has ended up as the most toxic tarpit imaginable. Mastodon seems to be headed in the same directi…

The down side of this is that once carbon capture becomes viable the amount of CO2 Canada and Australia want in the atmosphere are very different. Should Canada take it as a declar…

Right, and now compare it to the original bag. You have increased variability between generations by reducing the variability in the second generation.

You misunderstand the argument. It's like having a bag 1 filled with equal quantities of capsicums, cherries, and apples, then selecting the top reddest 25% of bag 1 and moving the…

Science has been hijacked from the inside for a long time now. While it's better than trusting straight up corporate releases, there are thumbs on the scales that push studies to g…

Where? The only thing even remotely negative I see in the top comments is questioning why they had so many big names on the board that had nothing to do with startups, biotechnolog…

Society is very anti-me. I just wear a suit to work and pretend to be someone else. Not terribly hard.

As posts in the thread have made clear, this is a third world problem which is being exported to the rest of us. A captain for proper sanitation and waste disposal in China and Afr…

Sure in the third world. Doing that in the first world makes about as much sense as a tax on bowel movements because people in India don't use toilets and we need to pay for the in…

And America is that on the scale of a continent. At least the British left the India to the Indians when they were done stealing all that wasn't nailed down. The Americans on the o…

Technically Greece and Britain are within the EU. No problems there either.

>Is this "matter of fact" mindset an unique trait of European cultures? No judgement is passing here, I am only curious about the thinking and mindset. I would venture to guess tha…

Given that the alternative the USSR had to Stalin was Hitler it was a pretty good deal all things considered.

No knock raids were first pioneered in the occupied gaza territories. Everything done on the edges of empire comes back to the center eventually. Give it another 20 years and we wi…

If the last 50 years have taught us anything it's that the middle class will be pushed lower, the lower class will be pushed lower still and the upper class will take all the winni…

Sounds like regular college students are too expensive for the tech companies because they have a hard floor below which they will not work. Having a cursory look that is due to st…