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by cykros 4y ago
Except that's not what civil court is for. It's for obtaining redress for damages suffered. $10 million, or even $100 million, and I'd say these victims must have suffered a lot...but very well, maybe they did. $1 billion? T
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by cykros 4y ago
This is a bit like if you stood in the town square, yelled out "Bob's a pedophile, and btw, buy my book" and Bob charged you for each individual person who happened to be in earshot. But, you know, it happened on the big bad
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by cykros 4y ago
This is the first of these takes I've heard; seems most of us are just taking third hand hearsay on this one. I've always found Jones entertaining, though more interesting back in the 9/11 Truth and Bilderberg group days tha
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by cykros 4y ago
They would have loved to, but BU's proposed BSL4 lab got blocked back in the early 2000's because, well, they wanted to put it in the heart of Roxbury. And considering that they've had at least one or two leaks from their ex
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by cykros 4y ago
Well, especially since when you look at the way money is held across different social classes, it tends to form a much larger percentage of total wealth at the lower classes than at higher classes, who hold their wealth in other assets beca
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by cykros 4y ago
Arguably, the phone itself as an object of instant gratification seems more the issue here than the porn being accessed on it. Sure, easily available porn may short circuit some normal sexual interaction, but the phone as an alternative to
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by cykros 4y ago
I'm perfectly okay with removal of whatever from the app stores. The issue is locking a device to one particular app store in the first place. For some reason people keep giving these lunatics money -- but perhaps if they overplay the
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by cykros 4y ago
OR, they should be on the hook more if they're going to exercise this degree of control; ie, a common carrier rule (though its inability to actually get applied to social media leaves me less than hopeful). IF they want editorial capa
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by cykros 4y ago
W3m has some javascript support, but it's limited. As far as HTML5 goes, I believe you're out of luck.
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by cykros 4y ago
I'm curious if those are actually owned by billionaires...there aren't THAT many billionaires. To be honest, I'm more expecting that they're run as REITs that are on public markets, in large part held by the asset manag
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by cykros 4y ago
Ironically, most of the largest companies in the world these days are pushing a left leaning agenda of higher regulation, and not really pushing back too much on taxation. Which seems odd, until you remember that higher regulation and taxa
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by cykros 4y ago
The old taxation=theft trope grows a bit tired...and frankly, I say this as someone who leans libertarian. At the end of the day, businesses derive value through infrastructure and in some cases, even regulation, without which the income s
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by cykros 4y ago
The US has the luxury of having the reserve currency of the world, which is why it was able to churn out $6 trillion in quantitative easing over the past 2 years, enjoy a blast out of the gate as COVID wound down, and still be sitting on on
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by cykros 4y ago
The early 20th century history is definitely worth knowing about, and while they didn't have the orderly monetary stimulus backed by a central bank running the printing press at full speed, they did have the far less regulated fraction
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by cykros 4y ago
Looking to mainstream general media on economic matters is usually going to land you with some skewed portrayals of reality, even in the event they're not resorting to outright lies or inaccurate statements, either because they assume
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by cykros 4y ago
You can be acquitted without being innocent. See OJ.
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by cykros 4y ago
This is a result of adults being teens. Some people get comfortable.
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by cykros 4y ago
TIL that there are people who just use whatever messaging app came with their phone. I may not like Moxie Marlinspike's decision to host Signal on the Play Store, but it's still the best SMS app out there for providing a moderate
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by cykros 4y ago
Forcing interoperability sounds like a good idea, until you recognize that it results in a system of compliance that absolutely stands in the way of innovation for years if not decades to come. Look at seatbelts: the technology has come le
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by cykros 4y ago
Allowing elected officials to control the money supply is a bit like allowing children the decision to determine how much candy they can eat. These are people who have shown time and again willingness to take short term gains that come wit
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by cykros 4y ago
Thankfully, it is not ONLY taxpayers, but rather, all market participants that make use of the US dollar. Which, considering it is the reserve currency of the world, is a lot more than simply US taxpayers. Admittedly, the Federal Reserve
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by cykros 4y ago
Gift vs Loan really depends a lot on Time Value. If the loan carries interest at a rate that is lower than the return earned on the loaned value, it's basically a gift of sorts, even if not quite in the manner a lay person may underst
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by cykros 4y ago
While I don't think I want to delve too into the matter, arguably, the Federal Reserve NOT holding more control over the amount of money flooding into the system through repeated rehypothecation of securities as the roaring 20s saw ban
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by cykros 4y ago
Never mind how much easier it is to not get lost in the woods thanks to GPS navigation on phones (even outside of service area, if you've had the sense to download the map). That said, you do run into people who head out relying on th
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by cykros 4y ago
Log out, clear all cookies, get a new IP address (usually easy as unplugging your modem for an hour or so), and make new accounts. Better yet, don't make new accounts, and use platforms that don't require it -- or at least platfor
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by cykros 4y ago
I definitely remember a time when you could refer to Apple computers as Fischer-Price machines and most people would find it an apt comparison. That time seems behind us, except for the particularly salty FSF warriors.
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by cykros 4y ago
Teach your kids about gambling, AND investing (and the absolute sorcery that is compound interest). There's no house edge when it comes to investing (especially in the days of $0 commissions), and if you're talking securities rath
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by cykros 4y ago
I'm generally with you, particularly on the basis of non-aggression principles of libertarianism. That said, I'm not 100% sure that I actually think of all advertising as non-aggressive. There's room for a whole deep dive h
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by cykros 4y ago
If you're going to require even odds, then governments should very much stay out of gambling all together; I don't want tax dollars going to the overhead costs of running what ultimately will amount to an otherwise net-neutral end
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by cykros 4y ago
Markets in general, really. If you banned securities, people would still bet on commodities. Ban that and it's real estate. And in lieu of that? Currencies. If you ask me, gambling isn't the problem here; advertising is. Sure, p

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