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by freen 4y ago
Look: current financial regulations in the US and Europe mean we’ve been leapfrogged by Africa: M-Pesa etc. Don’t disagree, but throwing the baby out with the bath water and going full raw dog lets speed run the entire history of financial
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by freen 4y ago
The libertarian fallacy: the solution to bad regulation is no regulation whatsoever.
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by freen 4y ago
Chesterton’s fence fail.
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by freen 4y ago
What on earth does the number of visitors have to do with the legal requirement for private enterprises to host spam/nazi content?
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by freen 4y ago
Intent to overthrow a free and fair election? Seditious conspiracy?
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by freen 4y ago
One person’s ham is another’s spam. Common carriers have a government sponsored monopoly. Does Facebook?
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by freen 4y ago
You mean I can’t delete spam comments from my blog? What the hell?
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by freen 4y ago
Yeah, an armed insurrection by Neo-Nazis with the stated goal of a coup d’etat is certainly very centrist Democrat.
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by freen 4y ago
Grift: the project of gaining power/wealth from the existence of a problem without any interest in even remotely attempting to solve the problem. If saying “the government is the problem” is an effective strategy for a person to gain p
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by freen 4y ago
Fountain Codes: reconstruct data from random selection of packets. Was deeply patent encumbered until recently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code
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by freen 4y ago
It’s like no one remembers Kosmo.com
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by freen 4y ago
^^ Underrated comment of the year.
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by freen 4y ago
How idealistic. Why don’t you try it out and see how well that works out for you? Very, very few people of privilege know what having an adversarial state is truly like.
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by freen 4y ago
People who are happy to let the world burn so they can have their roof look the way British roofs look.
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by freen 4y ago
You are assuming that behind the veil of ignorance, you are still you , with your memories, risk tolerance, education, etc. That is false. You are a random person, with all of those characteristics decided by the proverbial roll of the dic
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by freen 4y ago
Voice, exit, or loyalty. That’s it.
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by freen 4y ago
You can put dokku in front of different schedulers, kubernetes being one of them.
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by freen 4y ago
Lookup how kids die. Here is a hint: it’s cars.
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by freen 5y ago
Huh. I wonder why the B/Yamagata strain of flu, one of the four major strains, has gone extinct, and there’s a possibility that another has has well.
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by freen 5y ago
Https://textit.com
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by freen 5y ago
More worried about write contention than storage.
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by freen 5y ago
Maybe they don’t trust themselves?
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by freen 5y ago
I like tulips. I buy tulip bulbs. That they are worth 10x the annual wages of a skilled worker is preposterous. At least they don’t churn through terawatts and terawatts. Blockchains will exist. They’ll do stuff. Like tulips. Anyone who bet
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by freen 5y ago
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by freen 5y ago
Why on earth would you want a private blockchain? Just use Cassandra and be done with it.
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by freen 5y ago
I looked, but it seems to run on SQLite. Makes me a bit concerned about scalability.
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by freen 5y ago
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln were pen pals. The specifics differ, but the general themes are the same.
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by freen 5y ago
Maybe controversial is the wrong term. In the age of historical low crime, perhaps we allocate resources elsewhere shouldn’t be a radical take. That some folks consider it to be speaks more about them than anything else.
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by freen 5y ago
Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Pronouns: White people used to call black people terrible things too. Things change. Cancel cul
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by freen 5y ago
Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. There isn’t much daylight between an ironic nazi and a real one.

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