Covzire

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by Covzire 5y ago
Yes it's essentially CorpTube now for any kind of news topics, they promote all the content providers who already have tremendous societal reach over everyone else by default.
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by Covzire 5y ago
One interesting metric I think might be rate of psychopathy of KF users, since a forum dedicated to discussing (read: mocking) people seems to me like it would naturally attract people who revel in schadenfreude.
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I wonder how proponents of this argument would feel if another industry was squarely in the hands of the right, like education. Let's say all the best educations were in private colleges and they didn't tolerate much in the way of
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by Covzire 5y ago
Another monopoly continues to grow unabated.
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If they actually have proper backups to avoid paying the first one, my guess is they are much more likely to also have the skills to prevent a second breach.
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by Covzire 5y ago
You correctly pointed out two exceptions to US holidays where businesses tend to make their money before or after, but I'm pointing out they're the exception (because of travel) and I see no reason why Voting Day as a holiday woul
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by Covzire 5y ago
What's happening during Thanksgiving and Christmas? A lot of travel, which I suspect is about the only reason some stores like Costco are closed, not that they're necessarily just being nice to employees but because a lot of their
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by Covzire 5y ago
They have a point though, every single US holiday is hell on low paid retail workers except for the few select stores that close on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why would Voting day be any different? "Election Sale, come in and vote for
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by Covzire 5y ago
Regulating monopolies is a bipartisan issue isn't it? The fact is that three companies in the same or adjacent zip codes have a monopoly over the online square, which means that especially during times of a pandemic, if they take away
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by Covzire 5y ago
I'm not aware of any ISP in the US that has terminated a customer's service for perfectly legal political statements.
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by Covzire 5y ago
I bought a new 32" monitor about 2 years ago that when I unpacked it, it was clearly an open box item. The way it had been packed was extremely unprofessional, tape was haphazardly wrapped and twisted around the stand and cords and thi
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by Covzire 5y ago
Along with about 15 other states at this point, and growing.
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The security industry is unique in how much and how quickly it changes. There are two kinds of companies that hire infosec professionals in my experience: Those that understand that change and the resulting need to plug their employees int
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by Covzire 5y ago
I'm wondering the same, it seems that the common denominator in any system that we can observe where entropy first stops increasing and begins to decrease is the addition of a mind.
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I really don't see the types of energy as a partisan issue at all anymore, compared to policies that threaten to put the US on a dependence on foreign sources of energy. Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it, but coal pla
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by Covzire 5y ago
Possibly hedging their bets. If China invades and conquers Taiwan, presumably the heads of TSMC would be able to flee to America and keep a chunk of their investments.
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Just to play devil's advocate, what would the world look like had there been massive investment 5-10 years ago? The benefits would probably have been a chip shortage that wasn't and we'd be free to complain about other things
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by Covzire 5y ago
> "cat would proceed to take nibbles out of every single one of them in turn", Interesting, although I suggest it much more likely that this cat also really is triggering some kind of "snake recognition circuit", it s
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by Covzire 5y ago
I really like your level-headed, not-overly-gamer-but-still-not-too-dry style. Keep it up!
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Let's say WC3 had been a smashing technical success and it delivered everything everyone wanted in terms of the remastered graphics etc, it still wouldn't have been very successful. Their legal team forced the ToS to include a cla
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by Covzire 5y ago
I still can't believe they butchered WC3:reforged so badly. It could have been a massive boon for them were it not for the hideously greedy ToS along with all the technical issues and straight up downgrades from the original in terms o
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by Covzire 5y ago
Why do you believe Trump is dangerous? CNN did nothing but lie about him and give endless coverage to rampant speculation. Literally everywhere there was any doubt, they brought on "experts" to exploit doubt and never gave Trump t
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by Covzire 5y ago
Facebook is the defacto public square of the US, at least during a pandemic where social media is the only socializing many are going to do. This is an extremely pernicious situation for American freedoms, if it's this easy to prevent
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by Covzire 5y ago
It's all the news shows anymore. They could cover many other things, maybe throw in a few positive stories, but cable news and largely the whole industry is just one growing dark cloud.
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I don't think it'll ever happen. The global banking system has and will enjoy a favored legitimacy status with governments that they would have to willingly give up. Even though Crypto is decentralized, it's the tributaries i
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by Covzire 5y ago
Ah yes, the "Stop wasting your time demanding your freedoms and tell me exactly what will finally convince you to bow down to me" defense.
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by Covzire 5y ago
Wow, Experian is a total scumbag company.
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Still they could sell foundry services for any spare capacity, or sell them to another company when it's no longer using them for cutting edge. I'm sure there's a very good reason they're not going that route but I can&#
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by Covzire 5y ago
It's surprising to me that $430B doesn't include plans for Apple's own fab(s).
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by Covzire 5y ago
Ah that makes more sense, thanks.

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