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This is an attempt to seal off one of the main pathways out of interaction with its monopoly. “This will make you safer” is a common refrain of those who seek to maintain control over everything you do.

If they are this desperate, prepare for net neutrality to become more important. I’ve already started to experience delays in streaming speeds and reliability. Please call or write to your representative and express concern that your internet service provider has a clear incentive to inhibit the free flow of information to your home, and that you are deeply concerned about this.

If humanity wants to improve the net balance of human rights, what better way than to reallocate available financial capital away from regimes that subscribe to undesirable religious dogma, and toward a new generation of leaders who believe in progress through the erosion of ignorance, by creating platforms of empowerment and enlightenment by means of a freer flow of information, via digital channels that transcend obsolete political and cultural borders. If the Saudi agenda is to propagate Islam, then the internet is a terrible thing to invest in.

Maybe we should ask how human rights abuses plan to persist if their proponents are funding new platforms of self expression and better flows of information that offer tremendous empowerment for the average person to learn about and speak out against such injustices. This seems a poor strategy if the goal is to keep the people ignorant and subject to the ancient stupidity of religious dogma.

Wow what a fantastic tax evasion scheme, especially for real estate developers!

I'd like to suggest a theory here, that a brain's primary function is to study and occasionally override the information processing algorithms contained in the "unconscious" DNA of the organism. Once the brain has discovered the optimal solution through innovative overrides, the best behavioral solutions are recorded and automated in the DNA as hard code, and no longer requires either supervision or further revisions. At that point in the evolutionary history of the species, it no longer needs to invest so much energy in maintaining such a large a brain, now that what amounts to optimal "muscle memory" in the DNA has been established through successful survival and selection of repeating behavior patterns. So what may appear to us be highly intelligent behavior, these functions are coming not from the brain, but from what has been captured in the DNA. This is a theory from a novice, I am not a scientist of any kind, but an entrepreneur. I don't have time or resources to research the validity of this theory, but perhaps someone else does? Thank you.

In order for this to work, you have to define "universal" in the context of how automation affects the global economy, not just the US or any national economy. Example: are we going to send a stipend to Bengali citizens who are displaced from textile manufacturing jobs by robot factories in the U.S.?

This is exactly what spacious.com in NYC is working on, a network of coffee / meeting lounges across the city, inside really nice restaurant dining rooms that are otherwise closed until dinner service. (big disclaimer: I'm the cofounder).

I'm not sure that evidence of stone tools means that these were human animals. Many other species can conceivably use stone tools.

Scientists? Or WITCHES!?!?!?

Seriously though, the human behavior study on this is as fascinating as the animal one, and would be really hard to explain in a Salem courthouse.

And the picture of the masked scientist holding a dead crow? Add that to the library of images that my subconscious will use to manufacture nightmares.

Edgar Allen Poe would be proud if he could see this masterpiece of creepiness.

Why don't we study our own social media habits with as much scrutiny? I mean, if our version of the Chinese state is free market capitalism, how much of our own social media ecosystem is clogged with "fake" posts, otherwise known as content marketing? I bet we produce way more than 488M of that kind of crap each year.

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If there was ever a perfect plan to widen the gap between rich and poor, this is it. I predict this will bring about a future of unionized renters, followed by home-trust-busting efforts as it becomes clear how much potential for the abuse of the poor is waiting behind this new financial structure.