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asjw
7y ago
Well, that's a problem! You should read and understand what you sign, before you do.
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7y ago
It's simply what happens when you have a military industrial complex and people are more scared of being nuked or invaded by Russians than their infrastructures being taken over by privates (hospitals, schools, transport etc. etc.) Far
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7y ago
But it isn't. US don't have sepa or psd-2
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7y ago
That's why EU is moving US has never been weaker in the recent history, nobody helps the old lion.
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7y ago
Bitcoins are valued 40 billion dollars right now, it's less that the net worth of Larry Page and less that the GDP of Myanmar, one of the poorest countries in the world. If some folks risked their 401k on bitcoin it changes nothing. If
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7y ago
I don't get the point Cryptocurrency ecosystem is already out of the regulations and mostly a black market
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7y ago
Bank of China is not a private company it's run by the Chinese government. Facebook is not the US government.
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7y ago
If I walked at 30km/h on the streets I would definitely wear one The poster in another comment says he wears helmet and body protections when skying, I think it's just common sense and not wanting to suffer sever consequences for
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7y ago
> Why don't drivers? They do in fact. This is the list of the mandatory safety measures in Europe for motor vehicles, it's 24 pages long https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:3
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7y ago
They are already using it and not on Facebook. It's silly to think that terrorists use Facebook Very silly
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> people who were chased away from CSAIL, MIT or CS in general by people like Stallman Stallman never chased away anybody from CSAIL
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> how autism is dealt with Stallman was born 67 years a go. Autism wasn't even a thing. Until the 1980 it was diagnosed as schizophrenia and only in 1987 a checklist for diagnosing it was proposed Anyway, not caring too much about o
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7y ago
That's unfair. We should at least address the elephant in the room. For centuries the west (including me) has consumed the planet resources while colonizing the rest of the world. Now that poor countries started having access to the sa
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7y ago
You can smoke and get away with it. It's stupid anyway.
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Sorry, but even believing in God makes much more sense. Bitcoin was a product made to make rich people richer like Ponzi schemes or multilevel marketing.
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7y ago
You can easily convert them to another currency though
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7y ago
Of course. They are soft at touch, you can make origamis out of them or even eat them
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7y ago
Nope. You're paying not in bitcoin, but in the value of those bitcoins converted to a legal currency. Otherwise those businesses are just avoiding taxes, it would be better to pay in gold, at least it has a stable price.
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7y ago
Stealing a pen at the supermarket or entering the neighborhood's garden qualify as being a kid doing stupid stuff Breaking into someone else's house with the intent of stealing it's something completely different
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7y ago
They can be explicitly requested by the employer or required by the law. I had to provide the criminal background and prove my studies to my current employer. I also had to pass a medical examination to obtain a certificate of eligibility t
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7y ago
Hunting had a social aspect too. But it wasn't a social activity. Just like gaming, it's gaming the majority of the time. Social activities have parts that are similar to gaming, like when a group of friends ends up playing beer p
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I think it's just dumbing down the options. It's recognition over recollection. It is well known that recognition is easier, and that's why consistency help so much. But used everywhere, as if it was the only available tool,
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7y ago
You get lazy when you get so tired you can't work anymore. Even sled dogs owners give them plenty of rest or they stop doing a good job and you think it would hurt human performances?
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I have 28 days of holidays + national holidays in Italy, plus paid sick leave, plus 8 hour of permits a month, plus of course pension, which is a legal obligation. And I'm thinking of leaving because as a new company in a larger group
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7y ago
Where? When? City name? Station name? Did you call an ambulance? Why not?
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Switzerland is not EU EU has absorbed many eastern countries that where under USSR influence
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Or maybe just move to a country where workers have rights? In Europe you'll find a lot of them, you don't have to ask, you have the right to it. For example: I have 28 holidays, 8 hours of payed leaves a month (you can't use
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No, they are not. They are just going to make things miserable for the next generation, like everybody else do did.
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How could people working 9-5 raise a family, including taking the kids at school and to the doctor? It's a well preserved secret, nobody knows how they did it. It is clearly magic or sth like that Spoiler: they do like everybody else&#