bthazos

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by bthazos 5y ago
Maybe the areas affected don't actually benefit anyone in power? Probably not enough graft coming out of the timber industry.
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by bthazos 5y ago
They tried this in Italy 2000+ years ago. A wealthy city will spawn from the mine, but since bitcoin doesn't appease the gods like physical gold does, the city will be buried in ash.
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by bthazos 5y ago
Probably. The historical origins are beyond me, but anecdotally I thought the 1994 movie PCU must've dealt a mortal blow to the political correctness movement because I stopped hearing about it and no one around me treated it as a rea
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by bthazos 5y ago
The Roku's inability to display non-latin characters is what soured my enthusiasm for them. If it turns out that it's a trivial problem that is easily addressed once it's time to target international growth I will become bit
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by bthazos 5y ago
This is where government could perform a useful function. Content creators selling to the government and the government reselling full access of all that content to distributors is a realtopian dream of mine. It seems win-win all around t
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by bthazos 6y ago
I still believe in the ideal but also recognize that the dream is most likely over for now, and I think rightly so. Superficially the situation looks like what cattle ranching went through in the American West with free grazing [0]. The i
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by bthazos 6y ago
Universal media access should be a thing. The government could demand access to entire digital catalogs, compensate and resell to front-end streaming providers.