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floodyberry-
4y ago
"hi I'm a liar and we only did something because the bad press started to go mainstream. fuck trans people"
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5y ago
you have a point, you don't appear to have read that you're a fucking idiot enough
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5y ago
Good news, you now have to read every tweet made on Twitter or you're against free speech!
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5y ago
"sure you might get pretty sick, but if you power through the diarrhea and cramps you can enjoy the benefits of getting some serious food poisoning" I can't believe you're giving away this advice for free
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5y ago
believing in things that aren't true makes a lot of arguments fall flat
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5y ago
For something that supposedly loves babies, "god" sure enjoys spontaneously aborting them https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/372193v1
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5y ago
I always feel like I'm missing something about literate programming because every example is "godawful". Transitioning between text and context-less code fragments littered with markup is incredibly jarring, and instead of so
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5y ago
Like most? all? of the names dropped in the article, he appears to be interminably up his own ass. Not sure why he was notable enough for a long form interview
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5y ago
Exactly! Imagine not wanting to be your own bank or lose your life savings to a buggy contract... pathetic
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5y ago
> I read this often and maintain the attitude that scripture, science, art are all branches of the same Tree. Have you considered that having a tree where one of the branches lets you believe things based on little, bad, or no evidence,
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5y ago
That situation should be added to the Wonderlic! "When evaluating candidates who will be working with large amounts of money, should you give them the Not-IQ-but-we-all-know-that's-what-it-is test: a) before you weed out the minor
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5y ago
You seem fairly upset over this. Have you considered organizing like-minded individuals and forming a campaign to raise awareness on the issue until they apologize to you for apologizing for being inept bigots?
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5y ago
> They are a business with poor ethics
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floodyberry-
5y ago
Because the Gates Foundation publishes its returns? https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/financials
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5y ago
How do you know? Has he shown you his bank statements?
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5y ago
Unless you're Kim Peek you're not doing inventory or trends in your head.
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5y ago
Poring over individual transactions sounds like a terrible, if not impossible, way to identify aggregate trends
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5y ago
> And then... yeah, you can't directly apologize and take responsibility because that would cost you a fortune The system is truly working when you can just play dumb and rest easy knowing everyone you screwed is too poor to do anyt
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5y ago
Why can a vapid blog post from a famous person make the front page, but a serious, if slightly aggressive, response to it gets downvoted? Did everyone just want to circle jerk about how they too are just like famous person?
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5y ago
So essentially, as long as he says he is only making all of this money so he can donate it, he gets the prestige of having already donated it without having done so yet, as well as a free pass to make the money however he sees fit?
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5y ago
If telling people you were going to do something was actually doing it, we wouldn't need contracts
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5y ago
"good things" is someone who claims to want to give his money away yet keeps getting richer, and is also getting a lot of his wealth by running an ethically dubious crypto exchange that is plastering its name on anything that will
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5y ago
> The reason he's keeping FTX open is to earn more money to give away to environmental, socioeconomic, and health organizations and research. There is no way you posted that with a straight face.
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5y ago
You're supposed to tell them it's broken before you tell everyone else it's broken
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5y ago
You are inside a cult, complaining that people outside have not differentiated levels of extremes inside the cult, and therefore you do not view being similar to the cult as a bad thing. This is not a defense of the cult you seem to think i
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5y ago
"really early days" is an argument that a lot more work is needed, not that everyone should go all in knowing there is going to be a lot of collateral damage along the way even _if_ it works out.
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5y ago
Great Missouri facts: * One abortion clinic in the entire state! It would be zero if not for the pesky courts. If Mike gets his way, Missouri will be "the most Pro-Life state in the country!" * No permit required for open or conce
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5y ago
The only thing that will be transparent with zero knowledge blockchains are the buggy contracts
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5y ago
"finance is corrupt" doesn't work in favor of crypto because insofar as crypto addresses the issue, it only allows finance to be even _more_ corrupt
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5y ago
Your reading comprehension is stellar!
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