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Isn't this just tautological nonsense? This applies to everything. If you have 1 friend rather than 5, you can focus and be more creative with that 1 friend than 5. If you have 1 sibling rather than 5, the same thing. If you have 1 book rather than 5, you can focus and read that one book.

Maybe we should have less schools and less "research" because so much of it seems like useless busy body work to justify academics' salaries.

And of course, such topics like these are great because it latches onto the simple-minded people's anecdotes as the comments here reflect.

> I would like to see western governments treat Chinese censorship as non-tariff barriers to trade when negotiating trade agreements.

Considering the west censors also, the chinese would laugh in our face. Weren't there chinese tourists who got locked up and fined in germany for silly speech recently? Weren't we all celebrating the censorship of the "alt-right"? Didn't we have celebrate the attacks on russian "fake news"? At worst, the chinese would simply justify their censorship by labeling apps as spreading fake news just like we do.

> Unfortunately for the most part western governments seem to have the same problem as western countries in not wanting to be frozen out of China and thus don't overtly question NTBs.

There you go. You act like NTBs go one way. We also have non-tariff trade barriers. Not only that, we also force other countries to end business transactions with china due to "national security concerns".

> I think the problem is deeper than the author suggests. Not only are certain groups of people not getting the resources they need, there is also the matter of a cultural disconnect between the people in power who control the resources, and the underserved who may deserve them.

Beyond the cultural disconnect and more importantly, there is a disconnect in self-interest. It isn't in the interest of those in power to level the playing field. Humans are selfish creatures. We all want our family, friends, etc to have the advantage. We want ours to always have an advantage over others.

This isn't a conservative or liberal issue. It isn't bigots vs non-bigots. It's an innate human concern. Liberal parents/people want to advantage their children, families, etc over the others just as much as conservatives.

I'd say the reason why we are miserable is because of the media and the increased consumption of rubbish clickbait from the media. We are miserable because useless journalists have to write something everyday to generate controversy, fear, anxiety, etc in order to get people to click on their links so they can sell their ads.

Same here. Not sure why you are being downvoted.

> Being in politics is supposed to mean being a public servant.

That's what the powerful tell the naive. Politics is about power and money.

They are ugly and they are noisy hence why most people don't want them near them.

> Could you imagine something that equalizes the playing field more between men and women?

It really wouldn't because women would lose the societal benefits of being child bearers. So at best, it would be a wash.

> This provides the ability for people to have a child without the woman having to gestate the fetus for 9 months? None of the terrible side effects of pregnancy, none of the pain. Sounds pretty idealistic to me.

But most women actually want the experience of being pregnant. It's why this woman chose to transplant a uterus and become pregnant. She could have just hired a surrogate for far less time, effort and money.

But the issue of artificial wombs does offer a interesting question. How would it change humans as a species. Would it make men or women or both obsolete? Evolutionary pressure has made women child bearers and men providers. How would artificial wombs change that? Not to mention, the effects on physiology. Would women eventually lose uteri or will it become a useless vestigial organ over time?

> it's that businesses accept data as identity.

Even worse. It's that businesses accept it and the individual bears some or all of the liabilities and hassles.

> A C/C++ program is usually an order of magnitude longer than what a FAUST program would need to be.

That's true for all functional/scripting languages vs imperative languages.

There is a study that was done years ago which came to the same conclusion as you did - "An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl".

Sure. But most people don't understand that. They think it is like the nobel prizes in science - based in achievement.

> Fortunately, USA still has robust immigration (despite political efforts), so we have nothing to worry about, compared to Japan.

Really? So the population has to always increase? When does it end?

> American population and culture is in no danger of dying off

Neither is japan's. You could argue that japan's population and culture will last longer than america's.

Using prizes to push a political agenda. What could go wrong? Remember the nobel peace prize to obama for nothing? Or the clock in the suitcase boy a few years ago?

Yes, lets ruin the good name of science to push a political agenda. Then we won't have anything to trust anymore.

> and it's just a political hitpeice

It is a political hit piece no better than awarding obama a nobel prize before he did anything as president. I'll make you a bet. There will be a syrian or a refugee who will "win" a prize in the next few years.

> Get a life and grow up, I'd like to see you have the guts to try anything like this, even with your inherent advantage of living in a first world country.

What's strange is you attack people and the moderators aren't censuring you.

All you are doing is appealing to the "feels". Should we make a mockery of science just for your "feels" and to push a political agenda?

Anyone remember the clock in a suitcase boy a few years ago? The exploiting and ruining the good name of science in order to push a political agenda?

That's all tech giants in pretty much all countries. And not just their own people, they spy on foreigners too.

There's a reason why russia and china kick out foreign tech companies from time to time. There's a reason why EU demands access to source code/hardware specs/etc from foreign tech companies.

It's why all major nations ( US, China, Russia, etc ) are working towards creating and manufacturing a wholy native tech stack for their sensitive government and corporate institutions.

> Can't Uber continue to operate at a loss for a few years until they can switch drivers for self-driving vehicles and significantly reduce cost instantly?

Sure. Uber can survive years/decades through losses if wall street/hedge funds/big boys are determined to carry Uber for years/decades. The big boys were willing to carry amazon because it was continually growing and establishing a monopolistic position. The question is whether the big boys believe Uber can continue to grow and establish a monopoly.

Likely not. It'll most likely be India as they are the largest generics manufacturing nation by far. India is to generic drugs what we are to non-generics. Israel is another major generics manufacturer so it could be them. China's pharmaceutical market haven't developed as quickly because of their internal chinese medicine market.

> Naturalized citizens cannot be deported unless the government first proves in an Article III Federal Court that they obtained citizenship fraudulently and the court revokes their citizenship.

So naturalized citizens can be deported whereas a natural born american citizen cannot.

> Should legal immigrants, especially naturalized American citizens, be harassed by the government?

Don't remember saying they should.

If there is anything more toxic than social media, it's traditional media. If you value your mental health, uninstall facebook, end your subscription to NYTimes/WaPo/news media, turn off foxnews and go do something else.

The clickbaiting never ends. WaPo is worse than youtube pranksters.

> I like to joke that I have more documenting showing my legal right to be in the US than my wife's grandmother.

You are mistaken. Your wife's grandmother ( assuming she is native born ), even though she may not have "papers", is undeportable. Whereas you have legal documents showing that you are not a a native born citizen. You are someone that we can deport. Naturalized citizens can be deported from the US. A native born american cannot.

> Americans seem quite dead set against a national ID scheme (and associated database).

There really is no need. Most americans have state IDs and if they want to travel abroad, US passports.

> ICE, interior immigration checkpoints, and other initiatives seem to be on the rise.

But for american born citizens, that isn't a worry. It's a worry for immigrants - legal or illegal. Not for native born citizens.

It's an op-ed piece by a highly biased individual in washingtonpost. It's meant to push a particular position, not to espouse truths or facts.

I used to have a KVM to switch between my many boxes with many OSes. Now with virtualization, I have box with a few virtual machines. Now if I want to use windows, debian and freebsd, I don't have to switch between 3 physical boxes, I just have to switch virtual machine windows on one box.

People brag about their FICO scores. What do you think FICO scores are? Just glorified citizen score.

Welcome to the wonderful world of propaganda. The top voted comments here are praising reddit for cracking down on "upvote rings" when reddit hasn't. Reddit, even their admins, actively work to push liberal propaganda on their platform. Hence why if you go on reddit any time of day, you'll see an anti-trump post.

The hypocrisy of the pro-censorship propagandists is disappointing. But then again, they are only interested in spreading propaganda themselves. They just want everyone to see their own fake news and ban their opponents' fake news.

This, boys and girls, is why you don't want to support censorship. I'm laughing at all the pro-censorship commenters here who are getting upset because their side is now being censored. Give companies/governments/etc to censor the "alt-right" and you are giving them the power to censor the lgbt, protestors, etc.

> Reddit has had ring voting protection for years

It does? Is that why reddit is inundated with political propaganda everyday?

It's just another guardian clickbait. No shortage of that unfortunately.

I personally prefer 2 or 3 monitors rather than one large monitor. One monitor for code. Another for debuggin. Another for servers,VM, testing,etc.

Sure. But did they break the story on the connection between anti-brexit organizations? It's funny how the guardian mostly published anti-brexit propaganda.