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by cwhiz 6y ago
You could take the entire defense budget, and the defense budget from every other country in the world, and you would be less than 50% of the funding you would need for a single year of Medicare for all. The US spends about $3.6 trillion p
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by cwhiz 6y ago
No better place to build your own bubble and insulate yourself from any thoughts, opinions, or ideas that might make you uncomfortable. And don’t forget the massive astroturfing, corporate bots, paid off moderators, and karma system that is
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by cwhiz 6y ago
“Every exchange and crypto market reporting Tether volume is wrong.” Some person on the internet, with no source to back the claim.
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I didn't say Coinbase was doing $210 billion 24h volume. I said Coinbase is reporting that Tether had $210 billion 24h volume. It's right there on the Coinbase tether page. https://www.coinbase.com/price/tet
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Ha. The exchange reporting the highest volume is... Bitfinex. I believe you that Bitfinex would lie. Coinbase is reporting $210 billion daily volume. Is every market lying? Or are you just personally wrong?
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Meanwhile, daily Tether volume is $170B. The entire crypto ecosystem is reliant upon the Tether scam.
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It’s always someone else’s fault. If you signed up for Griddy and didn’t know what you were getting into, that’s your fault. If you signed up for Griddy and knew the risks, that’s your fault. Either way, it’s your fault. Griddy wasn’t some
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>Nothing is going to work any better than lockdowns, though. They haven't worked, and they can't work. There are many third world countries that don't have internet access or the equivalent to the CDC. Global cooperation
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This whole comment chain is about global covid. Any course of action that relies upon global cooperation is pointless. We can't even get country wide cooperation in the United States. If we try to stop the global spread of covid wit
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Lockdowns were never going to work, and any strategy that relied on them was doomed to fail. A strategy that involves convincing every country, and every little province, to destroy their local economies, all at the same time. I can’t belie
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She’s not a broad professional ethicist at Google. She’s part of an ethical AI team. It’s one thing to write a critical research paper on Google AI. It’s quite another to spend months publicly trashing your employer on social media. You wo
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It’s not like she’s an ombudsman for Google. If she has concerns she should voice those concerns internally. If she doesn’t feel that her concerns are being taken seriously, she should quit. On the way out the door, she should tell her stor
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It is impossible to overstate how much better our lives would be if FB didn’t exist.
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I don’t even agree with the scarcity argument. Every Bitcoin represents 100,000,000 traceable assets. The “supply” of an entire Bitcoin may be artificially limited, but practically speaking there are infinite Bitcoin satoshi to trade.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2019/05/02/after-... Bitfinex, and Tether, are under scrutiny from multiple state attorneys general.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Money laundering, scams, insolvency, lack of regulations, lack of clearinghouses, etc. Lots of reasons. Tether wouldn't exist if Bitfinex was able to cash out dollars on demand.
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It’s the in-market ramp because exchanges can’t afford to cash you out with the dollars you put in. And this is where it becomes a scam. People need/want the ability to cash out to sit on the sidelines during periods of extreme volatil
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Look at the daily volumes, instead. Doge isn’t used as the primary on/off ramp for the entire crypto market, but Tether is. Tether has basically become the crypto fed. Without tether, this whole thing falls apart.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It's as easy as doing it the exact same way Hey does. "We blocked external trackers in this email, click here to learn more."
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>I’m sorry but it an astonishingly stupid take. To you. >Apple and android DO have a duopoly, and it is bad for every phone owner. Google owns over 85% of the worldwide smartphone market. I agree that we need more competition. This
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All it would take is a single default configuration change by Apple, Microsoft, or Google. It is not crazy at all to think that Apple would change the default setting to block loading remote content.
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>How you can argue for less software freedoms, while paying a 30% tax for any app you distribute, is honestly mind boggling to me. Why do you care what my preferences are? If you don't care for the iOS model, you should go buy an A
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That is surprising, and unfortunate. I believe this will ultimately have to change. The percentage of people blocking remote content will only go up. I block ALL remote content in my emails, and there is nothing that will convince me to
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Unfortunately, Hey is only decent at catching tracking pixels. I have my mail apps set to not load remote content, and it is obvious when an email tries to load some tracking garbage. With Hey there is no option to block remote content, b
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This seems flawed. A single Bitcoin can be split into 100,000,000 pieces and spent infinitely. It may cost some X amount to mine it, but that is not an ongoing cost.
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Legitimately, if this was posted on 4/1 I would have commented that they did a great job with a non-obvious prank. I can't believe this is actually real.
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>LAPD should tell the public how many hours of surveillance footage it gathered around these protests, and why. Gee I wonder why. Maybe to find all the people who were burning down buildings, looting, destroying property, throwing rocks
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I don't know. How is this fundamentally different than any other vehicle modification? Or even any other form of driver distraction. The driver is always responsible. This whole exercise feels like people trying to remove themselves
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Foxconn will just build a factory wherever Apple asks them to. Most recently, India. Next option, Vietnam. It’s not hard to leave China. It’s hard to leave China for the US.
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Maybe. The Volt was a good car. Positive reviews. People just didn’t want it. You could chalk that up to a failure by GM. But I think it’s a market indicator. An in between product with too much drivetrain complexity, too high of a price, a

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