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Yep, great book. Also dispels the Lord of the Lies myth that people have taken as gospel.

And some people really WANT to believe it's true. They've built their entire worldview around it and the idea they've been duped would cause a massive narcissistic injury.

It a way science is very similar to free speech. Its can be very harmful when misused, but generally the answer to bad science is not LESS science, but BETTER science.

The proper role of the education system of any given country, and a good predictor of its success, is how well it teaches us to evaluate the difference.

HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE is pretty good, though about 1/2 through, the challenges started to seem like my actual day job. Definitely would recommend for kids interested in picking up programming.

Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.

Wow, what a great and unexpected talk by John Cleese. Thanks for that.

Is there a distinction being made between the quantum computer being impossible, and it being impossible without a future breakthrough in engineering or physics?

But the top tax rate has been steadily declining since the Eisenhower administration. This tax bill furthers that decline. Over that period we've seen an increase in inequality. Are they correlated?

I'm not sure the bit about what share of income tax is paid by the wealthy is meaningful here, outside of right wing think tank PR releases (your linked site is funded by the Koch Brothers btw. Just a heads up).

And in California we still have Prop 13, which effectively locks long-term owners into their existing houses.

Hacking is exploiting flaws in systems. Is not lobbying itself exploiting a flaw in the system?

But your experience is just anecdotal yes? You (and frankly me as well) have a resistance to the FB addiction, but the numbers of people on the platform are staggering and cannot be ignored.

And China has their own version of FB, what will that be used for in the hands of a totalitarian government?

With all the resources at their disposal, they could perhaps bring in a professional editorial staff to rank each news source based on some unbiased (ahem) and transparent criteria like # of sources for a story, past accuracy, level of bias, etc. Still let people click and post whatever but apply an easily visible and understandable "news" score.

"Just because you do not take an interest in Facebook news, doesn't mean Facebook news won't take an interest in you" - Perecles

The best thing about this is, Google will have to bring back wireless charging now for future Pixels.