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idiot99on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

We'll have to agree to disagree. And as I say, step outside your bubble. The vast vast majority of the population reject basic income, in favour of a meritocracy, where the harder you work, the more money you can earn.

Confiscating money from everyone, and then distributing it equally amongst the population (Regardless of whether they need it or deserve it) doesn't sit very well with people.

idiot99on HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C

Comparing laptops to tablets/phones is a bit silly though.

You hold your phone/tablet much closer to your eyes than your laptop is.

A phone needs to be pretty high dpi. A laptop doesn't.

idiot99on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

Perhaps you need to convince the public that having a large government handing out a specific allowance to everyone regardless of how hard they work, is somehow different to communism.

idiot99on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

There isn't huge support. Step out of the bubble...

It's just the new generation of kids flirting with communism.

idiot99on Google.com partially dangerous

Yes, they are.

In Chrome and firefox, if google decides your website isn't up to scratch for some random reason, then visitors will see a big scary red warning and be turned away.

Yes, in theory you could get people to use a browser that doesn't incorporate Google censorship, but that's becoming a big ask.

If your website does become blacklisted by Google, good luck finding out why. They won't tell you, and will instead make you click on a "request review" button a million times while you change things to see if it floats their boat.

Isn't it slightly worrying to have the entity who decides if websites are "safe" or not, also have a monopoly on online advertising? What's to stop them blacklisting sites that use competitors advertising? They could claim that it benefits the users some how, whilst squashing any hint of competition.

Google has become the absolute gatekeeper, and (To me at least) it's a very very sad state of affairs. The www used to be free and open.

idiot99on Google opens access to its speech recognition API

If it's anything like Googles other APIs, people will build applications on top of it, and then Google will decide to shut down the API with no notice.

Fun to play with, but don't expect it to last...