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Alternatively, how does it affect me?

They still record your IP address and link it to all the sites you visit that have a facebook script.

Color me jaded, but I'm pretty sure this happens in every industry across the world.

http://www.vocativ.com/212533/big-tobacco-doctors/index.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4778168/US-doctors...

Really sad to see this being downvoted.

Overpopulation is the root cause of many other serious issues such as hunger, lack of access to sanitation/medical treatment/education. We live in a world with finite resources, so the more of us there are, the less each of us gets.

The author implies that there was a real public opposition against the GDPR.

Is this really the case? All I've seen is praise.

Libraries buy the books and pay a royalty to whoever owns the rights.

In some cases this is based on a voluntary contract and in some it is based on a public lending right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right

Platzi has a series of videos on this topic.

https://courses.platzi.com/classes/build-grow-online-communi...

Edit: Apparently it's no longer free. The course isn't really worth $100 in my opinion, so here's a short writeup of the videos http://cmxhub.com/article/product-hunt-erik-torenberg-commun...

And more importantly - can anything at all be done about it?

It seems that certain interests will carry through no matter what.

Let me be the devil's advocate for a moment:

Why is it a problem if Google knows more about you? Doesn't it just mean that you will be served content more relevant to you?

How else would you deal with cybersquatters?

Our economic system is based on growth, I believe.

Population growth increases demand for goods and services. This generates new jobs, venture opportunities and increases the value of existing assets such as real estate and securities. Overall population growth creates a positive spiral in the economic sense.

Of course none of this takes into account that we live in a world with limited resources. And there is no incentive to do so - as long as you have sufficient assets that stand to rise in value. It's the people who have the least that suffer the most from overpopulation.

the primary goal of any for profit company is to make profit

I couldn't agree more.

But they haven't turned a profit since 2013.

What's even more annoying is that it took me 10 minutes of googling to figure out what their annual net results are. Revenue shows up as the first result on google, but if you want to see the net result, you actually have to look through their quarterly reports.

let’s say it makes you 5% more productive It’s an extra twenty minutes a day

Author presumes 100% of programming time is spent typing/editing.

Is this really the case? I'd wager it's close to 10% for most people.

our mission is to fix the fake news problem.

Sincere question: Why is it a problem?

Contrarian opinion:

Saying "I'm a good communicator" is the most succinct and clear way of communicating that one is a good communicator.

The recipient needs only read 4 words to get the message.

Because credible™ news sources such as CNN have confirmed that they are villain states.

“But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.”

No journalist would just change topic after hearing this. It's a very controversial and ambiguous statement, and Thiel must have elaborated a great deal on it. But there is no further mention of any of that in the article.

Not to mention that most of the quotes are clearly taken out of context. Making any kind of judgment based on them is a shot in the dark.

PG's essay "What you can't say" springs to mind:

It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

How does the Department of Labor determine the applicants' qualifications?

S16: 54.7% did not have a recommendation.

This begs the question: How much weight does a recommendation carry?

Or put in another way: Should you network with YC alumni in case you ever want to apply?