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This kind of blind nationalism is at least part of the problem.

Thanks for taking the time to write. Although I find your snappy rhetoric attractive - it hasn’t helped me understand your point of view. Yes then - if you join my company that sells art supplies, hoping to change the status quo regarding wider political issues in the US - yes you will be...

Well I think this is how complex ideas need to be discussed. I'm not even in the States - but I would never hire someone who associated with Q-Anon - thus possibly breaking the law. Interestingly, other forms of discrimination are legal - for example, I wouldn't knowingly hire someone who plays...

I'm not sure why this is black and white. I mean Coinbase said "no politics" - but they mean "you can't expect to bring politics into the office". As others have said, a certain amount of politics in the office is required by law. For example, you can't discriminate on the basis of gender. I'm...

Thanks for taking the time to write. I don't think it is silly because in reality, this is how it is going to be run. As others have pointed out, you can't remove all politics from a workplace, but divisive politics can be reduced. So, my workplace would have less politics, and what politics...

I’m the boss of your company now. I’ve made a policy that as best as possible, we avoid politics in the workplace because I want my employees to do some work. As a result of my decision - no one gets to keep their Q-cups. They seem hateful anyway: The rainbow cups can stay unless my employees...

But would it really? Workplaces have basic protections in place already for bullying and abuse etc. So it is not like anything goes. Beyond that, you could ban employees discussing topics likely to cause division while on the company’s money. Why wouldn’t that work? I’d imagine many companies...

Hey HistoryDave - a quick question because I may have misunderstood something. Wouldn’t Coinbase’s “keep politics out of the office” stance mean that Q-mugs, crazy banners etc are banned from the office? That’s what I took it to mean...

You could be right - but it makes it look more like a business decision with an uncertain outcome rather than a sociopath hiring sociopaths though. TBH - I can see why a CEO might want to avoid this. The most significant political discussion in states now is who to vote for. It also is the most...

In the workplace some politics is required by law. For example, unlawful discrimination in any workplace is both unlawful, and necessarily political. But I don’t think Coinbase is trying to ban that. They can’t legally do so anyway. I think they are trying to ban overt political activism that...

As a student of history I always wondered how to best pick when to leave a country when things are looking bad. From the outside looking in - now looks like a good time. If you started planning now, sorting visas etc, you could sell up at a profit and leave in a measured way with everything in...

This show was a lost opportunity. The norm now in most drama is to have characters face dramas from within - like a husband who collapses, a daughter who needs her mum or distrust among co-workers. These can be done well. But why, when doing a story about a mission to Mars, wouldn’t you focus on...

“ Rather than recognizing that facts aren't supportive of their policies, the administration's political appointees have apparently decided that the CDC is not presenting the facts because it's trying to undercut Trump.” This could be a US English thing, but isn’t the word “undermine”’, not...

Yeah - he should be held up as an example to other, unnamed, technologists. You can learn to be a better person. Elon.

Look, I’m not a US citizen - but are you sure about this? The view from overseas is that Trump is not trying to pretend to be a dictator - he is gunning to be the real thing. I’m pretty sure the US hasn’t had a situation before where a sitting president refuses to concede an election. It would...

If the wealth of the nation is slowly being concentrated in ever fewer hands, your claim can’t be true in any meaningful sense can it.

I know you must have been itching to get your post out there - but I think you need to make sure to read what you’re responding to. One developer noted that the Apple tax was being passed on to consumers. I indicated I don’t mind paying it on their behalf. I support Apple’s business practices...

Just my experience as a consumer - I’ve been happy with Apple’s 30% cut then. The prices passed on to me are low, I feel the apps I get are good value for the money I pay. I have no problem with various anti-competitive organisations looking into Apple’s business - and changing things if they...

This post reveals the relevant issues at hand far better than the original article. Can it be made one of those editor/author posts that gets marked up so that everyone sees it?

“ It remains to be seen if Amazon's Utopia will match the same scale of violence, although I'd wager anyone who sat through the extended torture scenes in the first season of Altered Carbon should be handle to handle it. ” That’s a damn shame - because I couldn’t handle that, nor Red Wedding...