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How do you differentiate between genuine grassroots opposition and astroturfing campaigns?

Lying by omission and plausible deniability are hallmarks of pernicious and subversive agents.

> In order for device manufacturers to get the Play Store on their phone, they have to give in to Google's demands to add the Google search box on the home screen of the phones.

What's wrong with this? The Play Store is subsidized by search revenue, it makes sense to tie them together.

Activists in general should always expect to be treated harshly.

How would you feel if insurers prodded overweight people to exercise and eat better, or else their rates go up or coverage cut altogether?

How would you feel if insurers prodded lazy people to engage in healthier lifestyles?

Empowering insurers could be useful in this regard.

There's nothing wrong with having a geographic bias in skepticism, Nigeria is not a historical source of innovation.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, if anything it elevates this boy's achievements even more and puts his talents in the realm of once-in-a-thousand-generations.

"Creating capital" isn't an evil thing -- when provided a free and frictionless economic market to roam, made aware of such opportunities to fully realize their ambitions, and inspired to achieve their wildest dreams, people will surprise you.

We -- you, myself, anybody reading this -- aren't just "creating capital," we are fulfilling our life's ambitions. It just so happens that the free market is the best environment to explore and drive towards something better than what 90% of the other comments are complaining about (reductio ad absurdum lives of complacency.)

Creating capital isn't the end to a means, it is a means to an end.

It is for domestic consumption, and much like Japan it is generally being held domestically. They are indebting themselves to themselves tremendously and (as is in the case of Japan) it's not necessarily a bad thing.

The story looks similar too, which is why the CPC is shifting to encouraging demographic growth (including strongly incentivizing young professionals to form families.)

Using per person GDP when discussing China is a cruel joke. Like most usages of per person GDP in any country, it glosses over regional disparities and (more importantly) economic equality measures like Gini coefficient.

Taking Gini coefficient into consideration, China still has a long way to go.

How does one reconcile this with jaded cynicism of "regulations for thee but not for me"?

Furthermore, does this regulation target the hardware products themselves, the software performing the recognition, the biometric data itself, the transfer of this biometric data, aggregate ("anonymized") biometric data, the processing of biometric data? There is a lot to talk about here.

Progressive supremacism is a far more accurate term, denoting the outright hostility towards even tacit opposition or signs of hesitation.

Those uncivilized societies were rightfully left to the dustbin of history -- they embody the nihilism I am referring to.

One is that empathy and self-control are the internal enforcers of the civilizing process. A lack of one or both is the sign of an uncivilized society or individual.

Another is that parents' authority over children is sacred, as well as the bonds of marriage and friendship.

There are absolute rules that we should adhere to, to imply that they are a social construction is to embrace nihilism and anarchy.

There is a set of universal standards and expectations have existed for millennia in many forms. There has always been an implicit set of common rules -- common across all cultures and generations -- that we as a species live by. Implying that everything is a social construction mental laziness and a desecration of our fore-bearers at best and malicious destruction of the bonds of society at worst.