We do not have to choose between a guaranteed job or a guaranteed income. It is a false alternative based upon false expectations--the expectation that mankind will run out of opportunities for productive work.

Furthermore, both alternatives violate actual rights in order to manufacture fake rights. We have the right to work to produce the values our lives require and this right comes from no government. We have the right to keep or trade the product of our labor and no one has the right to take it from us in order to pay someone a guaranteed income or to pay them to work at a fake job.

There are too many fake jobs already, especially the "jobs" currently being done by whoever dreams up such Orwellian alternatives as "guaranteed job" or "guaranteed income."

It's one thing to be downvoted by faceless strangers who mean zilch to you. But to be downvoted by a Facebook friend is a personal affront. Friends will unfriend friends and people will become disgusted and leave. This is probably a good thing for those still using Facebook since they can re-engage with more meaningful activities. But it will be bad for Facebook stockholders. This is a dumb move by Facebook.

That's one of the thousands of things that governments have no business doing. It's just a drop in the ocean.

Hopefully, other things such as air traffic control will be privatized next. They are still using 1960's technology for Christ's sake.

I have worked in both environments. In a closed office environment, many face-to-face conversations are of a personal nature. Furthermore, when you have privacy, you are more likely to share criticisms of policies, managers, and co-workers. This is one reason managers like open office environments. Open offices make it harder for employees be candid in their interactions with other employees.

Ancient builders knew how to use 5-12-13 and 3-4-5 triangles to make square corners. No one knows how ancient this knowledge is. But it does not imply knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem. Pythagoras was the first to give a geometric proof of the principle behind these two triangles. It is unknown whether ancient builders knew or cared why these particular triangles produced a square corner. To claim that these ancient builders knew about the Pythagorean principle is unwarranted.

I said "Hey Google, congratulations on being smarter than Alexa."

Google Assistant responded "My apologies, I don't understand."

Perhaps Google engineers can help their assistant come up with a snappier reply.

It was already known from the six-week test involving 200 people that more people on the drug died than people on placebo.

The choices facing the families of people with this fatal disease were (1) let them possibly live a bit longer but while suffering psychosis or (2) risk an earlier death but without suffering psychosis.

Shouldn't the families be allowed to make such a choice rather than have the choice forced upon them by a government bureaucrat?

It's called disruptive innovation and its good for the US.

It warms my heart to see the good guys put one over on the bad guys.

For 18 years I have kept a Windows partition on my Linux box for one reason only: to file my income tax once a year. Neither H&R Block nor TaxCut software runs on wine. Same with Crossover. Unless you want to fill out your returns by hand and mail them it, you MUST use Windows or Macintosh to file your taxes. And you know what happens when you boot into Windows after a year--updates. :O

No government has any business interfering with private internet service providers. This means no subsidies, no restrictions on entry and no dictations of policy. Governments have only one job--protecting rights by punishing those who violate rights and by adjudicating disputes. Unless an internet service provider is defrauding its customers or initiating force against competitors, etc. no government has any right to dictate how they operate.

If reality is a simulation, then what is a simulation? The concept "simulation" only has meaning in comparison to reality. The string of words "reality is a simulation" does not even qualify as a proposition since what it allegedly proposes undercuts the very meaning of the terms being used.

The energy companies are the target of a organized coalition of devoted leftists whose goal is the destruction of modern technological civilization. One tactic to is create some phony issue such as "water protection" to radicalize clueless sheeple. Their long range goal is a Marxist "paradise."

It is appropriate for the energy companies to gather as much information about the activities of such operatives as possible.

In our overly regulated society, from City Hall to the Federal Government, unless coercive penalties are certain one should always act first and seek permission only when necessary. This is especially true when the regulations are there only to benefit some entrenched monopoly to the detriment of enterprising individuals or startups.