Sangermaine

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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>If the VA is the best the US government can do Who said it was?
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>What makes you think universal healthcare would be any different? Because America isn't the entire world and there are many places where socialized healthcare of various forms have been very successfully implemented for a long time
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Well, poor decision-making seems to be the through line for this guy either way.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>But no, we didn't actually know that until Snowden told us, and it was not (and still is not) actually common knowledge that digital communications are not generally private. This is simply, demonstrably false. Snowden's a bad
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
And was immediately and irredeemably invalidated in May 2016 with the DAO fiasco, yes.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>people are able to purchase proscribed plants and medicines in a way that completely subverts the efforts of state to prevent that. No it doesn't. This is the kind of absurd nonsense that earns blockchain proponents this level of s
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Well, it's already 10 years down the line with blockchain technology. Still waiting. And, despite your silly claims of jealousy, the real reason blockchain technology now receives such scorn is precisely because for years after its inc
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
1. The web was already used for all sorts of things in that period. Geocities was a wonderful open world; I have fond memories of Simpsons and X-Files fan webrings. Not to mention services like ebay, Amazon, or Craigslist arose during that
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>TL;DR - We respect all cultures and viewpoints, except all those which we judge wrong and sexist. You're constructing a strawman. Promotion of multiculturalism does not and has not meant absolute, uncritical acceptance of anything
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>How is promising that the work environment is full of girls an example of discrimination against women? If, as the author asserts, the women are being hired merely as rewards for the male workers while not really being given actual oppo
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>I was surprised at how blockchain was being touted as the next technological revolution (and very light on the details) If you're surprised by this you must not have gotten online much in the last 10 years, especially on this site.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Blockchain style solutions are not relevant for many projects. They have some legitimate uses, however, and saying "But you could..." isn't a retort. Except you've got that backwards. Since none of those solutions ac
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>These VCs and their lawyers are not morons Of course not, they're smart people trying to finagle exceptions to the regulations to enrich themselves. >Also, I don't disagree that a ham-fisted SEC regulator could easily argue
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
This isn't a new problem for tax authorities, it's an old and solved one, despite the shiny new technological wrapper. If you're making a lot of unreported income, there are ways for the tax authorities to know, in the same w
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>not doing it is simply rude imho, It's not just rude, it's an intentional power play and a shibboleth to identify outsiders. No one wants to be the one who looks stupid or not part of the scene by asking what an acronym means,
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
Because, while undoubtedly talented, he's more than a bit of a bullshit artist and has no problem making proclamations that aren't true.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
The cryptocurrency scene has been people relearning why we have all these evil regulations in the first place.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>China's a big country with a lot of companies owned and controlled directly or indirectly by their government, an authoritarian dictatorship. It’s disingenuous to pretend Chiba is just another market of competing private companies.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
Who is they? The current AG wasn't in office then. And the fact that some entities weren't investigated does not excuse the actions of other, unrelated entities.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
Proof is obviously just another trick by the statist stooges conspiring to hold back cryptocurrencies.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
What's unhelpful is baseless speculation about conspiracies and corruption. You're the one making the accusations, you don't get to criticize others asking about them.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
> it's reasonable to suspect that the motivation is not consumer protection but subversion of technology which presents a challenge to the FIRE economy No, it isn't. It's only reasonable within the tiny fantasy world of Tr
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>It's hard to define an ethical standard. This is nonsense. Attorneys, doctors, accountants, and other professions have long had ethical codes. This isn't some impossible task, programmers just don't want the responsibilit
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
I have no idea what your motivations are, I just know that what you wrote is nonsensical on its face, "European country" or no, which makes me wonder what's going on. China is notoriously difficult for foreign businesses to o
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>You don't see a difference between banks that undo transactions constantly You should use a different bank if this is actually true. This is not a common experience.
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
Yeah, people arguing against this are so far removed from what the vast majority of people want that it's not really possible to have a discussion with them. Most people like that you can have your bank or credit card company hold or r
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>EDIT: Getting down voted for being blunt. Sucks to lose rep because people don't like to hear the truth. Because it's not the truth, it's just you being a jerk. It's not one person being scammed over and over. It&#x2
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
In previous threads on Theranos numerous posters defended the practice of early-stage companies lying to investors about their capabilities in order to gin up capital, the rationalization being it was okay if the capital let you eventually
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>A private company censoring people for discussing a perfectly legal technology deserves a boycott. You're being ridiculous and disingenuous. MailChimp has long had a list of Prohibited Content and Sending Subject to Additional Scru
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by Sangermaine 9y ago
>Otherwise it stops being the "open" internet and becomes another walled garden with dubious rules that can change at any moment (e.g. Facebook). Or perhaps Google isn't becoming anything, it was always exactly this and pe

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