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The desire to own all the information to own the whole world.

And it's obvious that this is not "his" statement, but a statement from the mouth of a puppet who is absolutely dependent on spreading the agenda in order to maintain his status quo of an "independent billionaire"

Already happens, why not make it even worse, right? Just for the alreadist heck of it.

"Does google rig the system to squash its rivals and hurt us?"

Well, this is one kind of modern skepticism I particularly like: Does gravity kill if one jumps off a cliff? Is a sphere round? Is it really bad if we give up our freedom? Who are we to think for ourselves?

When questions like this are asked, the damage is already done. And it seems like it's already beyond repair.

The best article on HN in ages.

> When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?

It's when big investors decided they'd better keep a selected few companies on life support while they kill fair competition with their suicidal price dumping, and then milk the monopolies they inevitably become.

They don't lay off because they're on their deathbeds, they do so because of automation and optimization. No need for that many mechanical turks.

Human rights are not the constitution.

It is always a little hyperbolic until it's suddenly too real.

So if I don't have any accounts in sociopathological networks, will the morons deny my visa? What a br.., I mean, a cowardly new world!

you sure gave enough arguments to beat those of the parent.

The whole Dragon is a simulation written in Python and running inside a VM running inside an OS written in JS and running inside an Electron app running in a container somewhere on Amazon AWS.

да на хую я вас вертел, ссыкливые минусаторы

The same thing happened to Russian IT hub, Habr.com. Today it's nothing but a propaganda outlet aimed at those who spin the cogs of this technocratic machine (and especially at the suggestible teens who will spin them in the future). The same thing over and over again all over the internet and society as a whole. No choice, no dissent, no free will. We know better. You get muted and ridiculed. Silently. Efficiently. Yes you can but you can't.

People today seem to be scared to death to think different (not as in apple).

So am I, my friend.

"why haven't we been in lockdown every year until this deadly scourge has been exterminated?"

One does not simply question the official corona narrative here without being censored by downvoting or flagging.

But answering your question: that's because such scenario was not developed and funded. Yet.

The last photo of Chernobyl reactor 4 control room is the most reassuring of them all.

"These sorts of people tend to think without the constraints most people have, not have a lot of filters, and not care too much what other people think."

- And have that murine sense of when to leave the sinking ship when this disregard backfires.

Micorsoft loves OSS as much as they are able to profit off it. Did they spend $7.5B buying github for the love of ideals?

And sure enough they understand OSS for what it is better than anyone else. Thank you, creative person, here is your exposure.

In Russia, we have a wonderful saying: "The mice cried and pricked themselves but still kept eating the cactus"

Here is how YouTube is dong their best about this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spiderman+elsa

And this, by far, is not the worst case of what's proliferating there.

Agreed, except the point of them being unable to see the cliff. For me it's almost as if they consciously decided to test their freshly-baked algorithms of gainful cliff falling...

I agree, it is much broader. Let's settle on the literal meaning: a medium is a carrier through which ideas propagate.

Let those who don't understand the risk learn the hard way. Free will is not only about doing right, it's also about making mistakes. Now it's obvious that the trend is biasing towards enforcement of the right-doing regardless of consequences and impact on individual freedoms. Almost all writing of Stanislav Lem, for example, is dedicated to this one theme. And extrapolations he made are only becoming more and more relevant as the time goes.

Having said that, the freedom to fail should only apply to individuals. Corporate or government entities should never be treated as humans and be allowed to fail the hard way. First, because the magnitude of consequences are incomparable, and second, because the strings of corporate responsibilities are entangled in such a way so as to lead nowhere. They can always lose a head and grow another one.

As to crossing of one's individual freedom into another's, that's what the service men are for. But it was alright while they operated under presumption of innocence. Now they are clearly trying to render people guilty until proven otherwise. That was one of the points in my first reply.

Pffft, 'companies' (as in plural) are so un-post-truth! The One Company it must be. And it well may be, because less and less companies will be able to cope with the firehose of New Normals.

Sit home masked, medicated, monitored and vaccinated, never go for a walk, never travel, avoid physical contact, work remotely, report hourly, wash your hands every 15 minutes with hard antiseptics, following the prescribed pattern. Wear protective gloves. Obey. Self-censor and suppress any thought of dissent. Vane into the wind without a squeak. Never ask questions. Automate. Get automated. Be more effective. Be more tolerant. Be happier. Let the planet breathe freely. Let the universal love and unity flow through your self-isolated mind. Seal your windows and doors and install military-grade filters, as viruses and pandemics are here to stay forever. Dedicate your CPU cycles to transhumanism@home, mine tokens of Eternal Digital Life and you'll transcend this miserable human body! But once at the Network, don't forget to self-isolate again at your personal memory block, as unfettered propagation of pure thought between corporate servers in under a few milliseconds is a recipe for another swift pandemic. Be responsible, don't make the Network fragile.

Yep, the adrenochrome junkie lizard shapeshifters from the other side of the flat deepstate Nibiru.

Can't you stupid flagging fucks tolerate these words even when used as sarcasm?

The Blvck Kvwv11 (c)

You will all regret helping to build this global concentration camp one day, mark my words.

I'm not debating with you. I'm writing this for the occasional sane people coming across this thread who rely on facts and not on the fear of possibilities. For those, a question: if, as they say, the exponential growth is kept at bay by the drastic lock-downs, why haven't Sweden and Belarus die out completely yet? Or Russia, where, I can tell you for sure, most people recognize that this is a staged event to make the wealthy wealthier and the poor poorer and to impose modern slavery and technofascism? Where is that deadly exponential growth being bleated about so hard since January?

No, it's bears and butterflies all the way.

It's when relatives of the deceased are bribed to sign an agreement to turn 2 into 1. Without 'presumably'.