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>Why would something that they’re giving away, to presumably everyone on Earth, become worth millions? Seems like that's a key part of the scammy pitch. "Look at how well bitcoin did, now hand over your PII for this shitcoin&qu
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No but it sounds like it could fall into unregistered security territory.
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He's right in a certain sense, Bitcoin is increasingly backed by energy that would be otherwise wasted due to lack of transmission infrastructure. Not sure if that was the point he was trying to make.
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Less layers = less room for corruption. If government money must be spent on poverty alleviation, the money should go directly to poor people's bank accounts with as few hops as possible.
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>police forces outside the South? Slavery existed outside the South. >influence from policing around the world, especially England? English policing had very different standards that were derived from Peelian Principles [0], at least
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Otoh if you want to avoid the forever war meat grinder, keep some pictures of yourself at an LSD, mushroom, and weed party on standby.
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Girls can eat pizza rolls.
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Surprising to see 12M sites use that (Elementor Pro) particular premium plugin.
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>Aren't they only able to collect meta-data on the conversations and not see any of the texts themselves. After seeing the lengths various govts will go to for full text access, I highly doubt it. There is also no way to reliably pr
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>How is the hospital bill your responsibility in this situation? Exactly but on the other hand, if not his responsibility, could acting suspicious be a free GI check hack? Health coverage can be expensive in the US. Hack methodology: 1.
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>The offer could have been $220 plus his kids were given the opportunity to “live another year” by the cartel. It's more likely to have been $220 plus some sort of profit sharing. The cartels are probably smart enough to align incen
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>just as a 15 or even 5 MPH Speed Limit would save even more lives still Parked cars are extremely safe. The IIHS should look into it.
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Sam Altman? Name sounds familiar. Isn't he the guy scamming poor tech illiterate people in 3rd world countries into giving up their biometric data?
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>by concealing the fact that the People's Liberation Army has been funding your cybersecurity company, or that you're buying suspiciously-inexpensive 5G radios for your telecom company from Iran) What if a VPN service like Mull
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>Foreign powers worked overtime to sabotage the Chinese effort >Mao’s reforms led to millions of deaths. China grew after the 70s. Most of the deaths were due to trade embargoes set by western powers (mainly US & UK) that restrict
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>India and China have both managed to uplift their economies in the last 30 years without the “discomfort” of violent crime, increasing corruption, the collapse of state institutions and an inability to generate electricity. India didn&#
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>What makes you think I’m white? I didn't say you were. >whites are increasingly irrelevant to the discussion about South Africa’s future-they’re dwindling as a percentage Not true, the owners of the vast majority of SA land are
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>On the fresh install of Windows I do see some ads and ad-adjacent things. I'm curious, did you pay for the installer or did it come bundled with a device?
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>It shouldn't sell my data, or shouldn't do anything like that. It especially shouldn't harass me to log into the owning company's account Consumers didn't react harshly enough after the prism leaks. Microsoft ha
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>South Africa is a deteriorating shithole. A large % of white South Africans dislike the idea of the masses rising. The expectation that the transition should be comfortable is naive at best.
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>India being characterized as a member of an Anti Western bloc Binary thinkers forget there are 3 states, with us, against us, and independent. BRICS countries aren't anti anyone, they are just asserting their independence in a worl
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>What specific promise are you referring to? >1st and 4th amendment rights Read the RESTRICT Act and tell me you honestly believe it isn't vague enough to be abused.
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>We can just create our own corresponding law. America cant keep its promises to its citizens and do what you are describing at the same time. It's now choosing the latter and chipping away at the former. You should read the RESTRIC
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Sounds like they don't want to turn Ubuntu into what the Windows users above are complaining about.
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>You're not disagreeing with me. I explicitly raised the possibility of uneven distribution in my reply. I misread, thanks for clarifying.
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>Does a calculator truly understand math when it spits out a correct answer? Of course not. And it doesn't matter. If ChatGPT could correctly answer questions ~100% of the time (like calculators), it would matter less.
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>so no, they certainly have not been able to make any use of them. >This sounds extremely speculative. My statement is less speculative than the parent's claim. Did Satoshi already receive 10s of billions $ of coins just for owni
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>In nearly all states, you are required to carry insurance for any vehicle you drive, even if for non-commercial activity. >Rather than argue otherwise, look up your state and look up driving laws. This right to drive was discussed in
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>Here is a case in Ontario where that argument was used. It did not go well. My reply only concerned US law since the tweet was posted by an American.
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>The author cites the pew study [0] that claims less than 10% of the "US black population" is foreign born. Yes, when I saw that it was clear to me that being "foreign born" said very little about the population. For
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