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Military industrial complex, big pharma, carbon/energy complex, insurance, big finance. what else ?

IHTFP

Funded by a monopoly supported by the public.

Society has lost its way.

"Compassion is the basis for all morality" -Schopenhauer

You left out DARPA, which is the source of all things internet.

Balaji Srinivasan had the most thought-provoking talk.

Thanks. Sounds like another long, but more accessible read (Manna): http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whole swath of middle management can be replaced with a little bit of automation and ML.

Sorry, I could not make it through all that dense verbiage. Quick summary please ?

He also wrote "Conquest of Happiness".

> I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job.

You need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you judge.

Last time I looked MacBooks are x86.

Resist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg

If you were on the MIT campus, you knew about the NSA. There were big ads in the student newspaper.

He is friends with the late Howard Zinn. That's how he is "familiar" with these issues from a young age.

Vote Green. http://stallman.org/

I am well aware of Matt Welsh's reputation and what institution he was from. However, even Einstein or Feynman's scientific papers are subjected to peer review.

You mentioned in the article that you read a section of code by one of the lead engineers and immediately you became convinced that using Go is the "way-to-go". Well, I would like to experience that eureka moment as well.

Unless it is open sourced, I can't validate the claims.

Who is the clown here ? Obama or Leno ?

Are googlers all narcissists ? I read that article and I only heard "I" or "me".

Because it is run by people disconnected from the real world. Walled-garden of rich people who like to read about people liked themselves.

Noam Chomsky has written about this for decades. The purpose of the entire "political framework" is for "Manufacturing Consent".

Chipzilla = Intel.

"Prism is an attack on American citizens" -Chomsky

>trusted computing base was nearly eaten by China

Citation ?

I could barely get a signal as a Mtn View resident. I'd regard this as just a publicity stunt.

For me it means writing an .el extension.

Main stream media has been co-opted by the corporate state, e.g. CNN. We don't really have an independent press any more. It is no surprise that RT maybe the only avenue to stay informed.