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by beginningguava 8y ago
we should go back to that, the federal government is essentially cancer and money is the glucose that feeds it's constant growth. The initial idea of small federal government with states rights was brilliant because people could vote w
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by beginningguava 8y ago
It's called national socialism. Nobody wants to say it but modern China has essentially copied the economic system of Nazi Germany. Capitalism is simply a tool to be used rather than some great ideal of free markets and competition. Yo
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by beginningguava 8y ago
It should fix itself eventually, either companies will choose to use Google or Microsoft rather than AWS or the government will smack AWS with monopoly laws. The main concern there is that Bezos has become so entrenched in DC with the washi
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Regardless of what it is now you should be happy it exists, look at present day Turkey and 1960s Iran to see how fast freedoms can be stripped by changes in government. Tomorrow it could be leftists being censored. The Communist Control Act
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Is he aware that Trump ended the program that subsidizes shipping cheap products from China? I imagine this will pretty much kill all FBA when it goes into effect https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018
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by beginningguava 8y ago
The idea of anyone invading the east coast is hilarious, Appalachia would make Afghanistan look like an amusement park in comparison.
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Once upon a time people wondered why people would do online shopping or use credit cards when cash got the job done. Crypto will eventually become the most logical option for most companies, it won't happen over night but it will event
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by beginningguava 8y ago
It seems we were the first to do it, the article says that they have tools to influence online polls and spam emails and SMS and were using them as far back as 2009 in the Falkland Islands and to push regime change in Zimbabwe. People have
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Korean war, Vietnam, and other activities in South America and Africa were all to prevent the spread of communism and soviet influence in general.
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by beginningguava 8y ago
"just build your own platform" The good news is that the continued censorship will fuel adoption of crypto and speed up the demise of parasitic middlemen who take a cut off every transaction
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Yet many people are currently begging the US to intervene in with Yeman, Ukraine, and the Myanmar rohingya muslim situation. Criticism in hindsight is easy, how much worse would things have been if the US hadn't fought communism? Stali
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by beginningguava 8y ago
It's just pattern recognition, we have it because it's good for survival. Maybe that grizzly bear is nice but I'm not going to try and pet it to find out because the stereotype is that it will rip me to shreds
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by beginningguava 8y ago
These are the same morons who got dozens of their assets killed because they left their chat completely unsecured to the point it could be found in Google search results. The days of G-men are over, it's a bunch of Ivy league clowns wh
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by beginningguava 8y ago
China currently has dozens of journalists "in jail" meaning they are most likely dead and the US media hasn't said a peep. Shouldn't they be calling for sanctions against them, rather than attack Trump for doing just tha
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by beginningguava 8y ago
The whole thing is strange, there's definitely a lot of different factions in the US fighting behind the scenes for their own agendas, certainly not fighting for the average american. It should be known that Khashoggi's uncle made
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by beginningguava 8y ago
People aren't as hyped for iPhone 13ABC and aren't upgrading as soon as possible. I haven't seen the news covering the multi-day long wait lines at Apple stores for years. Microsoft also got it together after dropping Balmer
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by beginningguava 8y ago
The opioid epidemic is an amazing example of human psychology and the power of a visual. More people die from it every year than Vietnam, yet there's been no large public outcry to resolve the situation because it isn't right in y
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by beginningguava 8y ago
If you hold any morals or ideals as having value, then you're beholden to some belief. Whether that's considered "worship" is just semantics The only alternative is that you have nothing you actually believe in, which fo
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by beginningguava 8y ago
This is just legacy media trying to regain power. Fake news has been around forever, look up Yellow Journalism. The difference now is that the 5 multi-national corporations that controlled nearly everything we saw and heard are losing their
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by beginningguava 8y ago
>Take self-driving vehicles. Every single piece of technology used in its development could be used with some minor tweaking in a military application You do realize DARPA funded the competitions that kicked off self-driving cars right?
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by beginningguava 8y ago
At what point are open source projects going to change their licensing to prevent the major cloud providers from just stealing their products? I highly doubt AWS built this from scratch. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going to choke the
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by beginningguava 8y ago
if you believe in genetics/evolution it's not luck. The smarter and stronger side wins. Is it luck that you weren't born as a squirrel or some other animal? My family members fought in wars, paid taxes, and helped build up th
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by beginningguava 8y ago
The US led the world in emission reductions in 2018, meanwhile the EU, Canada, India, and China increased their production significantly. Yet the US gets slammed by the global community https://imgur.com/a/sNWFP3k
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by beginningguava 8y ago
I never said it was noble, but doing something in your own self-interest can still be positive. Even if the US revolution was for the founders financial benefit, the side effect was the spread of democracy and self-determination across the
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by beginningguava 8y ago
>It is kind of sad that we have this way of carving up the world into arbitrary pieces and calling us "us" and them "the enemy". It's not arbitrary, our ancestors in many cases fought and died to establish those
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by beginningguava 8y ago
There's a lot of bureaucrats and cronies taking their cut, I'd be surprised if 10% of that actually made it to the homeless
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by beginningguava 8y ago
I compare the 2017 crypto hype to the dot com bubble, people finally realized the potential but the real life value isn't there yet, lot's of scam ICOs just like all the companies that raised money during the tech bubble. Just lik
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by beginningguava 8y ago
Sanders and Corbyn from the UK both explicitly praised Venezuela when oil was at $120 a barrel. Sanders even said Venezuela was a place where the american dream can really be realized. When oil dropped and the whole thing fell to pieces the
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by beginningguava 8y ago
doubtful, the progressives that humanities departments turn out are the most authoritarian people I know. Many have a quasi-religious propensity to classify anyone who disagrees with them as evil and irredeemable. They'd fit in perfect
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by beginningguava 8y ago
The solution isn't a ban, it's requiring they become US citizens after they get their degree. Right now we educate them and send them right back. Meanwhile we let in 50,000+ uneducated illegal immigrants a month. It's moronic

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