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by chasing 1y ago
The conversations at that time were definitely about how Instagram had the heat that Facebook was losing. I felt there was no question that they were neutralizing a competitor. (WhatsApp only had, like, 50 employees when FB bought it for $1
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by chasing 1y ago
Yup. The next 3.75 years are going to suck. Thank you, GOP, for completely shirking your responsibility to keep this kind of garbage in check.
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by chasing 1y ago
I’m going to keep punching myself in the nuts until you do what I say.
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by chasing 1y ago
Wherever you want. It's a very open-minded club.
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by chasing 1y ago
I’ve been enjoying the local Fuck Run Club. Great way to meet people.
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by chasing 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g... The US has about 10x the numbers of guns per capita as Russia. To start. And I think we're not quite as inured to authoritarianism over here.
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by chasing 1y ago
For one thing, we have a President this go-around who is actively behaving in a destructive way against the United States. That's the unique scenario we are broadly finding ourselves in: The office of the Presidency is being weaponized
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by chasing 1y ago
The primary use of cash is to buy goods and services. That's not the primary use of crypto. The primary use of crypto, as far as I can tell, is to try to make money appear out of thin air whether via speculation or fraud. And, admitted
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by chasing 1y ago
I thought this was one of crypto's primary use cases? A kind of "anything goes, anything you can get away with is allowed" sort of approach.
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by chasing 2y ago
At least for the next few years, yes.
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by chasing 2y ago
I’m sorry, but our President and his team are idiots for letting this progress as it has. The United States should be out there reassuring stability and being extremely clear with Russia the consequences of its actions. Instead there is no
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by chasing 2y ago
Well that sounds like an improvement over the Nothing At All they seem to show at the moment.
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by chasing 2y ago
If you're going to be open, you need to list exactly who is donating and how much.
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by chasing 2y ago
Yeah, but how many powers of 2 have all odd digits?
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by chasing 2y ago
AI tools are great. They don’t absolve you from understanding what you’re doing and why. One of the jobs of a software engineer is to be the point person for some pieces of technology. The responsible person in the chain. If you let AI do a
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by chasing 2y ago
I already miss the approval charts over time. Where the best place to see those, now?
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by chasing 2y ago
> If the US government wants Peter Thiel assets, including his life, it can just take them... Billionaires go radically apoplectic and turn into propagandistic freaks when the US government is simply not reducing their taxes fast enough
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by chasing 2y ago
I can participate in the selection and election of officials in the US Government. And I know my views have some small influence over their actions. I can’t vote Peter Thiel out of being wealthy and obnoxious. And I know he doesn’t give a s
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by chasing 2y ago
Yup. It’s hard to live in a democracy with billionaires. It’s going to be basically impossible with trillionaires. We waited until the ultra-wealthy figured out how to weaponize their power against us. It may be too late. But we have to red
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by chasing 2y ago
In a literal sense, taxation is not theft. People often don't like the outflow of money. They complain about it constantly. "Netflix's prices went up!" "The store wanted me to pay for my groceries and wouldn't
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by chasing 2y ago
“Taxation is theft. It should be kept to a minimum." What a small-minded little greed-sack. I hate it that since these people have escape-velocity wealth we have to forever sit here and on some level pretend their ideas aren't dum
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by chasing 2y ago
Have you seen some of these GOP town hall videos?
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by chasing 2y ago
This is true. The GOP prey on gullible low-information voters. He repeatedly denied knowledge of the Project 2025 plan that's now in action.
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by chasing 2y ago
He's not a king, he's a public servant with a certain defined set of powers. Doesn't matter how many people voted for him or why.
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by chasing 2y ago
He repeatedly stated he knew nothing about Project 2025. So arguably he's not following through on his campaign promises. Some of his voters I'm sure saw through his bullshit, but many were conned. It's a far stretch to say t
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by chasing 2y ago
> We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory… You absolutely know that’s not what I’m talking about. When wealth is siloed, workers are less able to advocate
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by chasing 2y ago
I don’t think there’s “nowhere,” but the wealth disparity is making it much harder than it should be.
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by chasing 2y ago
Funny how automation is only a problem because workers don't own much of anything they create. Meaning, if I owned my business then automating myself away would be a dream! But for most people, automating yourself away means a complete
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by chasing 2y ago
There's plenty of work for educated people. And my understanding is that each dollar in education spending adds many dollars to the overall economy, an indicator of its importance. What we need is wealth that's spread out more eve
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by chasing 2y ago
People don't seem to realize that the alternative to a democratic, egalitarian society is a violent one. For rich and poor alike. People will strive to make their lives better. If that effort can be funneled into productive actions tha

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