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  1. This is why banning guns is not the answer on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As technology marches forward it will become easier and easier to manufacture weapons and a society which uses bans to solve the problem will have to crack down harder and harder upon freedom and liberty to stop people from circumventing those bans. Eventually you'll have to literally be locked down and monitored 24/7. You then have a choice, either you continue to treat people like children hoping in government and authority to protect them from big bad guns forever or accept the risks and inevitable pains and losses and teach people to learn to live with and use these tools like adults.

  2. with this is just like on Slashdot people are going to use moderation as a 'I disagree with this opinion' button.

  3. I've noticed Uber is one of the few silicon valley on Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't go balls to the wall with social justice and environmental initiatives and PR. Maybe they can start up a girls only coding scholarship or hire more transgenders and loudly publicize it. That way they don't stick out as much as an inviting target or black sheep among all the other super leftwing sv corporations.

  4. Re: Wait, what? on Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Translation: average pay and hiring for women must the same or greater than men no matter what for equality. Otoh If men's pay and hiring is less, that's okay because reasons.

  5. Maybe its time to admit... on New Book Paints Different Picture of Workplace Behavior At Google and Facebook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    90% of what is now classified as 'sexually inappropriate' behavior is normal evolutionarily derived behavior. And the vast majority of mentally normal people would ultimately be happier living away from the convents decreed by nuns or their modern day equivalents, women's studies professors.

  6. Evil Fossil Fuels made them Rich on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I see everybody is crediting Norways socialism while ignoring that its evil fossil fuels that are driving the wealth. I thought fossil fuels on did bad things.

  7. Some charity is great... on Why Warren Buffett Is Poorer Than Mark Zuckerberg (inc.com) · · Score: 0

    Some charity is good. Other charity you're better off keeping your money. Zuckerberg, Buffet, and Gates are all manipulative, scheming, and arguably evil men. The difference is that Buffet and Gates are older and wiser, and have moved from buying fortunes to buying hearts and minds. They've donated to a lot of good causes but they've also donated and supported a lot of bad globalist and statist causes that make the world a worse place and to shut the door of the elite rich club behind them. There is no difference between their pattern of behavior and that of a very smart psychopath who wanted to buy his sainthood for entirely selfish reasons. But because they throw money in your face they've got you fooled. Zuckerberg in fact took notice and has recently been cynically attempting to burnish his philanthropic cred after much criticism. Gates especially did an amazing con. His fortune was built on crushing and stealing from others. Its like a bank robber donating to charity yet nobody cares anymore. Maybe all the people he crushed who earned and deserved this money would have been the ones donating if not for him. All his entirely life he was a ruthless businessman crushing all opposition and buying out what he needed to rise to the top and all of a sudden you think he's found secular religion and changed? Gimme a break...

  8. What is the goal? on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the goal to have a 50% female workforce even though there's almost no chance of that happening in terms of interest in the general population for the foreseeable future so they'll have to resort to lowering standards or upping hires for more diversity officers and other nontech positions basically defeating the supposed reason they're concerned? What happens if they overshoot the goal and men dip under 50%. Are they just going to not care and ignore it like for how women now earn significantly more college degrees and dominate middle bureaucratic management and nobody gives a crap?

  9. Re:Important note - the opposite of 'Idiocracy' on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They said genetics wasn't involved because the implications of saying that it was right or wrong is a one way ticket to rejection and destroying their career. Unless they could figure out a way to argue that the base population somehow managed to breed itself 7 points lower every generation with no external inputs.

  10. Re: You've got a lot of influence on Lawrence Lessig Criticizes Proposed 140-Year Copyright Protections (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know this was a bipartisan bill right?

  11. Does global warming do anything good? on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its funny how liberals constantly say there is no objective good or bad and everything is shades of gray but global warming is like Satan. There is absolutely nothing good that it does, its bad in every conceivable way even in ways that are logically contradictory in different stories. Even when they talk about stuff like black holes or the extinction of the human race they bring up the good it can do but Global warming is 100% evil.

  12. Trump's fault obviously on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's such a terrible president he caused life expectancy to tumble a full two years before he was even elected.

  13. Re:Trump on White House Announces Tech Tariffs, Investment Restrictions on China (axios.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    commit suicide if you think we're overpopulated so badly.

  14. Re: $100 million? on Uber's Self-Driving Car Saw Pedestrian 6 Seconds Before Fatal Strike, Says Report (tucson.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A martyr implies actively defending something either through sacrifice through active defense or acceptance of punishment without backing down for a cause.

  15. Good on Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Now that we've saved the internet from maybe possibly theoretically be censored by relatively less political ISPs for monetary reasons we can go back to cheering uberpolitical Google/Facebook/Twitter etc for continuing and ramping up their internet censorship for political reasons.

  16. What was visionary in 2012 is a crime in 2016 on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gotta hand it to Trump, if nothing else he did what no other politician or internet freedom activist over the last several decades could. He got people to finally care about privacy. People weren't only indifferent. They were slobbering in ecstasy over the likes of google and obama for vacuuming all their PI everyday. Trump changed all of this. Maybe indirectly due to the fact that people couldn't stand him allegedly benefiting but change the game he did.

  17. Zimmerman was let off because Trayvon attacked him. Nothing more nothing less. It doesn't matter whether he was an asshole or being racist or white unless he did something extreme like attacking Trayvon first. Bringing it up is just trying to distract from the issue. Coulda woulda shoulda...

  18. Next time help only democrats on Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down Amid Scandal Over Use of Facebook Data (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    nobody will care or may even praise how innovative you are.

  19. Summoned not for spying and PI gathering on UK Officials Will Summon Mark Zuckerberg To Testify if He Won't Do So Voluntarily (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    but for the crime of possibly/appearing helping Trump win. (but probably not if you actually look at the evidence)

  20. 'non-consensual?' on Pornhub Hasn't Been Actively Enforcing Its Deepfake Ban (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So essentially making a cartoon of a public figure is akin to rape now?

  21. Funny how Trump got people to care about privacy on Silicon Valley Investors Wants to Fund a 'Good For Society' Facebook Replacement (calacanis.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and accountability to users and all the other things Facebook is screwing up. Or more accurately anger that trump supposedly benefited finally got people to care about all these things, when they couldn't have given a rat's arse that their electronic lives were being bought and sold six ways from sunday just a few months prior. You got to give him credit for this amazing awakening.

  22. With the technology the same people say is going to force us into UBI should come self sufficiency. There will be no need for reliance on corporations and no controllable economy. The government in as far as one exists should be decentralized and minimalistic as possible. Basically just to make sure someone doesn't step on someone else if at all.

  23. Figures, that the globalist and socialist answer to technology that could free mankind from government control is to try to chain him to government forever. There is no need for 'Universal Basic Income' as its being envisioned. With new technology people will be able to and should be encouraged to live and provide for themselves independently with at most a very basic safety network not all that much more substantial than whats available now and can be provided by family and friends or the local community not some monolithic government authority that should wither away.

  24. Re:I read the entire thing. . . . on Former Reddit Executive Sees 'No Hope' For Reddit (nymag.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was vague but essentially he doesn't like free speech or donald trump, like the rest of the reddit admin but the article is him pissing and moaning that even they didn't do enough to stop them.

  25. TLDR version of Article on Former Reddit Executive Sees 'No Hope' For Reddit (nymag.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reddit has a problem. I'm going to handwave a lot about it, but if you cut through all the bullshit its people saying mean things I don't like (free speech) and helping Donald Trump. Reddit banned it but I'm so butthurt over it we need find someway to stop it before it even happens. There, I just saved you guys 5 minutes out of your life.