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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 privacy more'.

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?

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 flag up with the wages they stole from us.

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 monopolies did to any politician who dared stand against him: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/cancer-eating-the-he...

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 last 10 years.

Just because they are somewhat closer to me socially doesn't mean I want to sell out my freedoms to them.

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 very dickish. Gaming is by far the largest cultural industry [1], more important than Hollywood.

I'm more worried about the billionaires buying failing old newspapers and using them to spout whatever ideology gives them the lowest taxes, but that doesn't mean I can't see why someone might care about their hobby being sold out.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/842413-gamergate

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-31-games-indu...

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 direction.

Tone down the rhetoric of protecting peoples feelings and have actual human conversations instead. You will only attract the worst people from both sides of that debate if you keep it up.

You just made me orders of magnitude less likely to use it because all I heard there was "prepare for lots of drama".

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 declaration of war if Australia starts a program to reduce CO2 to 150 ppm?

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 them to bag 2.

You will have much less variability of fruit type in bag 2 because you used color selection to fill it (apples and capsicums come in three colors at will be selected 1/3rd the rate of cherries).

That's the whole point of sexual vs natural selection.

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 get the results those giving the funding want.

Social science is particularly bad at this, to the point I doubt any research done since the 1950s isn't ideologically tainted, at that time due to the cold war and the need to discredit anything "communist".

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, biotechnology or medicine.

In hindsight it seems like a way to keep the government away by trying to bribe people in it.

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 Africa would greatly reduce this problem.

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 increase in communicable diseases.

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 other hand gave the Indians the bad parts of Idaho * .

* As long as no oil is discovered there.

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 that nations of other cultures in modern days probably would feel very uncomfortable to openly display artifacts sourced in similar ways.

What shroud do you keep Manhattan hidden under?

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

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 winnings.

The economy has been a zero sum game for the majority for a very long time, so zero sum game strategies is what they employ.

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 student loans being easier to service if you're unemployed than employed at a low -relative to the cost of living- wage.

So now they are looking for a pool of labor that will take even lower salaries.

Expect the vulture capitalist friends to pump up community college prices in the next decade.

Try: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews.compact

It's a sad day when sites from 1995 are more usable than the newest 'dynamic' websites.

Looking at statistics instead of stories:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IAPCPI

In Iowa 2008 was the biggest drop in nominal personal income since 1955. The period 2009-2017 had the slowest nominal personal income growth since the end of the great depression in 1931. 2017 was one of 3 years to record negative income growth in the last 50 years (2008, 1993).

This all speaks of a labor market working far beneath capacity, one that hasn't yet made up the loss of income from the last recession. One no where close to full employment which leads to constant and substantial overall income gains.

If you follow the links on the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking

Oh :(

It's already been thought about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

>I do have a UPS on the modems and main access point.. but after reading this post, I may invest in diesel generator and a 5,000 gallon subterranean tank.

I'm not sure if that's a joke or not, mainly because after reading it I'm thinking "It's a stupid idea, but ... no it's a really stupid idea, but ..."

Yes, we should punish children for the sins of their fathers.

Especially the immigrants, who had nothing to do with any of it.

>It's hard to educate yourself well if your family is poor, I hear.

Have a look at the incomes of immigrants to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

The top 20: Ethnic Group Income in US Home country GDP PPP Ratio

Indian American $110026 $7,174.00 15.3367716754948

Taiwanese American $90221 $49,827.00 1.81068496999619

Filipino American $88745 $8,229.00 10.7844209502977

Australian American $81452 $49,882.00 1.63289362896436

Israeli American $79736 $36,250.00 2.19961379310345

Russian American $77349 $27,890.00 2.77335962710649

Greek American $77342 $27,776.00 2.78449020737327

Lebanese American $74757 $19,486.00 3.83644667966745

Sri Lankan American $73856 $13,001.00 5.68079378509346

Croatian American $73196 $24,095.00 3.03780867399875

Latvian American $72690 $27,291.00 2.66351544465208

Lithuanian American $72605 $31,935.00 2.27352434632848

Austrian American $72478 $49,247.00 1.47172416593904

Iranian American $72345 $20,030.00 3.61183225162257

Slovene American $72272 $34,063.00 2.121715644541

Swiss American $71418 $61,360.00 1.16391786179922

Bulgarian American $71331 $21,578.00 3.30572805635369

Romanian American $71230 $23,991.00 2.96903005293652

Scandinavian American $71190 $70,590.00 1.00849978750531

Italian American $70726 $37,970.00 1.86268106399789

How do you explain the differences in income when you have some groups earning 15 and 10 times (!!!) what they did before emigrating and others between 2 to 5? These people were poor, not just "I can't afford an iphone poor", "I can't afford antibiotics for my children" poor, yet are now the richest ethnic groups in the US, out earning local Americans by 40-100%.

That's dogwhistle for 'you're racist'.