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lactau··on Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat
Not if they are opposed by determined 50 percent.
lactau··on Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
A small nitpick. Nobody alive is a descendant of Julius Caesar.
lactau··on Harvard Classics Book Download
People don't usually read classics because they "just want a story".
lactau··on Sure-thing principle
Sounds like dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilemma#Use_in_logic
lactau··on Tim Cook says Apple’s customers are not its product, unlike Facebook
I own iPhone 5S since November, 2013. I still get iOS updates. I don't feel Apple forcing me to update or anything like that.
lactau··on Is the social media bubble about to burst?
Still doesn't make any sense. Is "The democratic voting of two countries was manipulated using social media, it puts at risk our rights, and freedoms." a problem or is "The democratic voting of two countries was illegally manipulated using social media, it puts at risk our rights, and freedoms." a problem?
lactau··on Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
>This isn't 1960 where there is one medium that connects 75%+ of people.

Was it ever like that though? Even in 1960?

lactau··on YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about conspiracies
More like "people interested in X are wrong".
lactau··on How autism may stem from problems with prediction
"Making predictions" sounds too broad. Everything humans do is basically pattern matching and prediction making.
lactau··on Long Term Depression Permanently Changes the Brain
There is nothing about inflammation or Alzheimers in the title or anything else that would provide any kind of information. "Permanently changes the brain" is a meaningless buzzword.
lactau··on Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship
Because it is a for-profit website with strict content re-use policy?
lactau··on The Man Trap
>to me, "feminism" is about women wanting careers

Second-wave feminism lasted from 1960s to 1980s.

lactau··on Cafe owners are pulling the plug on WiFi
So strange to read about it as if it is something new. We had these things since 2010 and they are very popular in Russia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-café

lactau··on Italy issues a nationwide Uber ban
Are you still in 2004?
lactau··on Google X employee collapsed on the job due to harsh working conditions
It is easy to be classy when you have superprofit.
lactau··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
No, I don't. I have no idea what part of my comment made you think so and what kind of mental jumps you've performed to come to this strange conclusion.
lactau··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
>I have a brother. Due to circumstances, I can call him a "stupid idiot" and he will know that I'm not serious and I respect him. However if a stranger calls him the same thing, he will take offense. Is that an unfair double standard?

I wouldn't call my brother 'stupid idiot' in public (neither would I in private by the way). I don't care what you do in private. Though, that's another topic.

When black people call other black people nigga, they don't mean it ironically or as an exaggeration. It is just a word which means black person and which is used only by black people. That's like calling someone 'bro', that's not like calling someone 'stupid idiot'.

lactau··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Yeah, you see. I am white. I didn't coin that word. I am not even American. There is basically nothing that connects me to black slavery except the color of my skin. My family roots go back to slaves too (like roots of >99% of people). I used to use this word ironically to demean pervasive hip hop pop culture. Thankfully, I am no longer in high school and don't have to talk to people who listen to songs about gangsters and fucking bitches.
lactau··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
No, because 40% is smaller than 60%?

Well, without jokes, tyranny of the majority is the topic, which is studied in political science, a complicated one actually.