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by choward 5y ago
Right. I wonder how much competition Amazon has eliminated over the years with their shady business practices. That competition may have driven innovation even further.
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by choward 5y ago
One thing we should learn and should have already known before the pandemic is that public health officials shouldn't be deliberately lying to the public. Unfortunately, Fauci has no remorse and hasn't apologized. He thinks he did
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by choward 5y ago
> We have fast and short lockdowns as soon as there are any cases to restrict spread This is not a world I would want to live in.
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by choward 5y ago
All that's really left is independent journalism. However, those are under attack by big tech and the mainstream media.
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by choward 6y ago
That's the problem.
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by choward 6y ago
What good does encryption do? All someone has to do is copy or move the sign.
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by choward 6y ago
This isn't different from what we have now with central banking except you threw blockchain in for some reason. What value does that add?
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by choward 6y ago
What's the mystery? Why are the vaccines 95% effective instead of 100%?
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by choward 6y ago
I've seen articles saying we should treat the B117 (UK) variant as a new virus. Shouldn't we just call it UK virus if it's a new virus? I'm not actually serious. I think naming viruses/variants after places is a mis
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by choward 6y ago
I still don't get why people keep using gold mining to defend Bitcoin. Society realized it was artificially slowing down the economy to constrain the money supply arbitrarily. We've been off the gold standard for decades. Nobody u
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by choward 6y ago
Gross. Why are they involving Google and Facebook? Those are the two main companies I'm trying to get away from and Backblaze is part of my setup.
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by choward 6y ago
Right. What if I like the s dim rainbows? All you could say is that Hawaii has the brightest.
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by choward 6y ago
> If it came down to it, and central banks felt a digital currency posed enough of a threat, they would happily incentivize (or mandate) usage of their own currency in order to maintain sovereign monetary policy. They already do mandate
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by choward 6y ago
Just delete your account at this point. No reason to log into an account just to make it easier for Facebook to track you around the internet.
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by choward 6y ago
But why though?
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by choward 6y ago
> No, I won't share my use case with you. You have to find it for yourself. I agree. Bitcoin is basically a religion. It relies on your faith and the faith of others.
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by choward 6y ago
> governments have to be careful here as they must ensure that there are no challengers to their primary form of taxation payment Why do they have to be careful? Are they going to magically going to have to start accepting Bitcoin instea
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by choward 6y ago
> The US Dollar system is failing. What makes you think that?
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by choward 6y ago
I agree completely. Now the only way to "reply" to a review is to leave another review which adds something that shouldn't be a review to the reviews making reviews even more worthless.
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by choward 6y ago
I thought they were changing their terrible name.
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by choward 6y ago
They're taking advantage of knowing you probably invested a lot of time to find that perfect seat. If you cancel you will have wasted all that time for nothing.
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by choward 6y ago
Why? How is that relevant?
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by choward 6y ago
That's why I said "in most places". And that article is from December. https://www.covid-georgia.com/today-in-georgia/hospitalizati...
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by choward 6y ago
Not really. They still have outbreaks and do lockdowns. I wouldn't call that "mostly back to normal". https://apnews.com/article/new-zealand-coronavirus-pandemic-...
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by choward 6y ago
I disagree. The leaders in those parties are a lot more similar to each other than they are to their base. For the most part they have the share the same neoliberal beliefs. Even though democrats like to pretend they don't, their actio
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by choward 6y ago
I agree completely. The only reason they used for shutting everything down at first was so hospitals don't get overrun. That's clearly not happening right now in most places. Also, it's not uncommon for the flu to cause hospi
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by choward 6y ago
That was an extreme example. My point was more that it's technically possible to enjoy your car and have privacy. There's just no incentive for car manufacturers to not control your data. If there was user friendly was to have con
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by choward 6y ago
It could be something you self host on your own server.
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by choward 6y ago
> You can't coexist with something that kills you. Citation needed.
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by choward 6y ago
Has this guy ever been fined? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ckpMQ4tgE

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