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by belatw 5y ago
Just as we’ve seen with Israel and China, the bullied have a tendency to become the aggressors. It could have gone differently had we not decided to back the bad guys of ww2.(Germany and Japan)
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by belatw 5y ago
You’re forgetting that the Nazis utterly ane completely destroyed the USSR, digesting an entire generation of men in every soviet state along with all of their infrastructure and resources. In the end it was the sacrifice USSR which enabled
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by belatw 5y ago
Consumers couldn’t care less, for sure. It’s only developers and corporations who cares. It is a lot like all the furor over patent trolls. It only really hurts large companies, but techies decided it was somehow victimizing them and scream
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by belatw 5y ago
Will facebook, instagram and linkedin follow up with the same feature in three weeks?
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by belatw 5y ago
Almost a decade ago I walked into an interview with a music tech company I had known forever, while coming down off of a 3 day weekend rolling molly (mdma) with some girl I’d met while playing a gig whose name I never knew. I probably shoul
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by belatw 5y ago
That’s why we have net-donor states like California, to subsidize poor right-ring net-taker states like Idaho.
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by belatw 5y ago
Seems like the GOP is kicking gerrymandering into overdrive. They’re clearly emboldened by the number of congressional districts they gained thanks to the latest census happening during their reign.
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by belatw 5y ago
So.. a clone of billmonk (rip) or splitwise but also dipping your hands in the cookie jar?
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by belatw 5y ago
His voice, tone and mannerisms are pretty triggering for sure. They trigger my gag reflexes.
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by belatw 5y ago
There’s probably a hell of a market opportunity for stagnant businesses to introduce the malware to themselves, ransom themselves, pay themselves, collect the insurance then launder the cryptocurrency.
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by belatw 5y ago
If I were playing the game at that level, I’d do it too. The best I can do to evade my taxes is to get customers to pay me via cryptocurrency which I then sell to people locally in person in cash for a 10% discount.
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by belatw 5y ago
The double-dutch isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? The 500,000-dutch with 50 layers of Irish and a few Caymens on top.
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by belatw 5y ago
Massive fines to whom? In this case the taxpayers will bear the brunt of those fines. In other cases, the consumers.
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by belatw 5y ago
Well the third bridge was built as a gift to Tayipp’s friends who bought up all of the land near it before he announced it as one of his “crazy projects”. It’s kind of in the missle of nowhere. My understanding is it didnt have any impact p
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by belatw 5y ago
I would try to school you on everything that makes the bay area great, but let’s face it, hacker newsies are a group of republitareans who move there purely in a cargo culting effort to win the dot com lottery. For every complaint you have,
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by belatw 5y ago
Having lived in Berkeley for a few years I would say it is by far one of the nicest places in the USA to live. The food scene is wonderful, the populace is diverse, it’s very bikeable and walkable, and the natural beauty of the hills is bre
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by belatw 5y ago
But it’s cool to let your spies do it?
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by belatw 5y ago
I guess you’re not actually familiar with capitalism?
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by belatw 5y ago
That’s retirement money. Live on an island, doing drugs and drinking champagne for the rest of your life money. Im in the wrong line of work.
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by belatw 5y ago
Sure, but i’m not sure indian government officials spamming evangelical christians will have much effect? Can this system even mass spam non-indian cell subscribers?
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by belatw 5y ago
“ A day after the initial threat was posted, the gang tried to spur payment by leaking personal information of some police officers taken from background checks, including details of officers’ past drug use, finances and — in at least one i
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by belatw 5y ago
He should use this to tell everybody in India to stay hime, wear masks and stop going to mass worship ceremonies that are causing this devastating covid spike.
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by belatw 5y ago
You’re missing my point pretty hard. Most of the people getting outraged about $130k are the same people ready to defend Musk and Bezo’s billions. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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by belatw 5y ago
Hacker News: Raw raw, libertarian objectivist open market capitalist fetishm for the win!!!! Also crab-ass Hacker News commenters: how dare those commies make more than minimum wage writing open source software!?!?!?
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by belatw 5y ago
That “intent of moral fiber permeating through our founding document” failed to do achieve much good for the the peoples of Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Vietnam, African slaves, or Native Americans. Those who live in glass houses s
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by belatw 5y ago
Actually, for me I am always referencing Goodfellas, but thanks for the link! https://youtu.be/3XGAmPRxV48
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by belatw 5y ago
I have a friend in Makedonya who wrote fake news articles im support of Donald Trump for two years. The best she could have made as a journalist was €350-€450 per month. This is a nation where the average salary is €250/month and senio
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by belatw 5y ago
I’m pretty fat, so yes, I love earing cake. I’m an American with American expenses and my terms are that I only work for an American wage. If a company wants to pay me based on the payscale of how much people make in the country where I liv
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by belatw 5y ago
In my current situation I have the added benefit of being in a close time zone to our team which was in Belarus (who now are in Ukraine and Netherlands). I manage an 8-person devops team and act as liason to our backend and frontend dev tea
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by belatw 5y ago
I dont think it should be illegal, companies exist to make as much profit as possible. I work to make as high of a salary as possible. My life us privileged, right now I make almost 5x what a local engineer would make. I also pay more than

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