criley2

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by criley2 6y ago
There is no such thing as an anonymous transaction, for a fully informed definition of anonymous. Bitcoin isn't... neither is cash in hand. Neither is a drop. Someone knows. A discussion of 'anonymity' in this context is one
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by criley2 6y ago
>What if... instead of YouTube you'd have several intereset based sites which could actually handle their moderation and workload instead of being a giant uncaring behemoth? What if... the average viewer was willing to pay for video
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by criley2 6y ago
It should probably be "legal" name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_name
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by criley2 6y ago
I feel almost entirely the opposite as you. Ignoring inconvenient comparisons because of political borders or because it is difficult to enact change is the actual red herring and trap. I would charge that your "network centricism&quot
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by criley2 6y ago
It certainly feels like false equivalence to suggest "you win some and lose some" when comparing free speech and political rights to gender representation in some fields. But I'll take your word for it, perhaps there are amer
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by criley2 6y ago
What in the world? This is the most out of place reply I've ever received. I can't begin to understand what you think you read and the volumes of strange assumption you made about me I honestly don't know if this reply repres
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by criley2 6y ago
What an outrageous example of a straw man, I never suggested anything of the sort. Women here can run for president, own newspapers, vote and own guns and property. That's more free than most people these days. We should celebrate that
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by criley2 6y ago
Men in China have less rights than women in America. At some point, it becomes shortsighted to lose sight of where we are.
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by criley2 6y ago
I mean, yes. Functional cross-platform doesn't mean "every single platform ever", and hitting 98% is a fantastic target. Listen, I love linux, and it's not MY fault that the year of the Linux Desktop never came and that
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by criley2 6y ago
With linux desktop use at ~1.5% and dropping, at some point it becomes bad business to support it. It's not adobe's job to pick OS's for their users, it's their job to support the OS's that their users use. And thei
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by criley2 6y ago
It's not, because of the scales involved. One is a heavily agrarian/rural state and the other is a combination of rural and major metropolises. Because of how the states are divided, it becomes a compare "nearly pure rural&qu
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by criley2 6y ago
Apparently all the news, government, politician stuff got removed, but all the conspiracy, 5G-allergy, anti-vax, stuff stayed up. I wouldn't bet that banning news will reduce the noise. Instead I think it will create a vacuum for even
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by criley2 6y ago
I don't like per capita metrics with states because some states are the size of countries in population, and others like the one referenced are more like cities. (North Dakota pop: 700k, Dallas city pop: 1.3 mil). It's like saying
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by criley2 6y ago
:| > Hart presents himself as a model drug user. “I am now entering my fifth year as a regular heroin user,” he writes. “I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have. Each day, I meet my parental, personal, and professional responsibilit
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by criley2 6y ago
>The problem is the choice is taken away from you though All Apple has to do is compromise on the 30% number. They've taken it to the extreme and demanded 30% of everything, 30% of subscriptions, 30% of every dollar. It's outra
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by criley2 6y ago
I would suggest that in lieu of individual seller brands on Amazon we do have one seller brand: Amazon We all know that Amazon has counterfeit goods and only cares the minimum. We all know that Amazon has fake reviews and only cares the min
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by criley2 6y ago
I mean, what Microsoft did pales in comparison to Apple's standard business model. How many third party apps have been driven out of business by Apple's preferred first party copy? We still cannot run anything but Safari (or an ol
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by criley2 6y ago
Their financials have nothing to do with private launches. They are doing them at a loss funded by government contracts. The satellite internet project is a piggyback on government contracts. Starlink is only viable if SpaceX exists, and Sp
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by criley2 6y ago
If we're being honest, SpaceX is designed to gobble up government contracts. That's it. That's the whole business model. If NASA offered contracts exploring the ocean depths then Elon Musk would be sinking Tesla's in sub
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by criley2 6y ago
It's no different than pre-internet. Complaining publically has been around since TV, it's a staple of local news to have "exposes" on bad local businesses to shame them when they won't do right privately. Before th
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by criley2 6y ago
Technically they do offer customer service if you pay them with their Google One product. I have phone numbers and human access very quickly, because I pay for it. Although obviously if they banned me, I wouldn't have access to my dire
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by criley2 6y ago
A fine argument to counter with, however when we look at population density, you'll see that the vast majority of concrete, steel and asphalt goes to support a tiny fraction of the number of people. Thousands of miles of roads... to co
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by criley2 6y ago
Un-used land serves a purpose for biodiversity and maintaining ecosystems and plays a role in the climate. Deforestation for farmland has major implications here. If you want to make and apples-to-apples comparison, you have to consider wha
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by criley2 6y ago
Here's an interesting angle: What's the energy/kg to produce on site versus the energy/kg to grow a thousand miles away, transport and store, transport and store, transport to final destination?
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by criley2 6y ago
>It's kind of his money that he controls. He can do a lot with it, but he can't buy a yacht with it... You don't get the favorable tax treatment without a ton of restrictions on how you can spend the money. Bill Gates woul
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by criley2 6y ago
None of the things you mentioned are replacements for either Twitter or Facebooks core products. A search engine, router level ad-blocker, browser-based adblocker and messaging app do not replace a public messageboard or a pseudo-public&#x2
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by criley2 6y ago
"WhatsApp is owned by fucking Facebook. Let that sear in your mind" You might have good arguments for your white-hot searing hatred of this company, but I will confess, it makes your position look much worse when you represent it
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by criley2 6y ago
That's fair, and obviously there is zero way you're going to get face time with an engineer that costs them $200k+/yr, and instead it's going to be someone they've hired at a tiny fraction of that. But that's t
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by criley2 6y ago
This is not what you want to hear, but if you pay Google you can get very quick support. The Google One product which includes cloud space and other features includes phone support for Google products. Turns out, when you use free services,
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by criley2 6y ago
It's weird that you describe the headline as "overwrought" and call the person an "employee" when the headline is more accurate than you. This was an executive, not just an employee. That's a huge distinction a

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