guildenstern

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by guildenstern 8y ago
> Please re-read the emphasis I've been placing on the sorts of facilities I'm defending. Please reread my comment, I am talking about farms (specifically chicken farms where 10% of chickens will die before they reach 1 month o
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by guildenstern 8y ago
You’re ignoring my point. Every single day the average person will actively benefit from the direct, quantifiable harm of individuals animals — your lunch, your dinner, there’s probably at least one animal’s suffering associated with it. Ev
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Zoos have nothing to do with my beliefs around animal welfare and that assumption shows your blinkered view of this problem. The fundamental problem is that humans view animals as tools, torture and murder for our benefit is normalised from
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Except we have zoos now and we treat animals very poorly, consider the billions upon billions of animals we slaughter every single year who’ve been forced to live in torturous conditions — zoos haven’t saved them. Perhaps zoos aren’t the so
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $1000. Consider how much money had to enter the market for the price to reach $20,000. Now consider how much money will have to enter the market, after everyday “normal”
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Spend any time on the crypto currency subreddits and you’ll find dozens of people who took out >$20k loans to buy cryptocurrency. There are people still doing it. My co-working office space was filled with people in December talking non-
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Authy specifically stores your account in the cloud and can be recovered using SMS. They have a 24 hour warning period during which the email address on file receives multiple notifications that a recovery is being attempted with the option
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Recreational usage is not relative to the substance, it’s dependent on behaviour. If you’re dependent on a substance (whether that’s physically dependent or mentally) you’re no longer a recreational user but if you’re using something freque
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs. Recreational use of MDMA a few times a week is _very bad_ on the long term health of your brain, very few other drugs
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Another vegan chiming in to say I assumed these weren’t suitable for me based on the name because buttermilk is an ingredient I see and think, “damn :(“. Veganism is very much about identifying red flags that make something unsuitable, so a
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by guildenstern 8y ago
This is absolutely untrue. There are many very profitable dating sites and apps. Tinder is a fantastic example of a dating app making money hand over fist since they began monetising, their revenue is in the hundreds of millions per quarter
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by guildenstern 8y ago
The question to ask is where will the money come from? The last bubble was all over TV, it was a constant part of the news cycle and everybody knows somebody who bought at least some crypto currency based on promises of wild riches. Most of
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Out of the blue. I am very careful about what I sign up for, I don’t have a car nor can I find any previous emails from the person involved (going back ten years). There’s no chance I signed up to a mailing list for a car accessory — and ju
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by guildenstern 8y ago
I received their spam, reported it to mailchimp (their provider) and was told that they were suspended.
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by guildenstern 8y ago
The creator doesn’t mention that one of his marketing strategies is email spam (his mailchimp account was suspended following abuse reports).
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by guildenstern 8y ago
What’s the connection between reading books and the internet, aside from literacy? They’re such different things, I’m not clear on the connection between reading and the internet.
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Presumably Sony and other major corporate users of YouTube do not have employees selecting a file and sitting waiting for it to upload every time a trailer needs to go out, nor do they give employees access to these high value YouTube accou
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by guildenstern 8y ago
Bitfinex isn’t a company that ignored some AML requirements and they’re not a company just using Tether. They’re the company responsible for tether, they are the creators of Tether. Tether is hugely fraudulent, it’s foundation is fraudulent
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by guildenstern 8y ago
There is absolutely no chance that bitfinex and/or Tether will be acquired by any legitimate institution, much less Coinbase. They are far to steeped in fraudulent behaviour to ever go legitimate without regulatory punishment.
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by guildenstern 8y ago
We (people who operate online services) are exposed to legal action already, but we aren’t worried about it because realistically there’s such little risk of being targeted. The same is true of the GDPR, the organisations responsible for en
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by guildenstern 8y ago
You’re comparing a massive group of people with a comparatively tiny group of people that have self selected for only the most willing and capable of abandoning everything and building a new life from nothing after qualifying to enter the U
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by guildenstern 9y ago
nevermind, hn is not the place for discussion of race.
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by guildenstern 9y ago
Most cameras in the U.K. are privately owned and operated with no central system.
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by guildenstern 9y ago
Veganism is a commitment beyond diet. Every vegan I know does not intentionally make use of anything that contains animal products in any form. There is a huge industry for cruelty free cosmetics, for example. You’re mischaracterising vegan
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by guildenstern 9y ago
Tether isn’t a traditional “scam coin”. Tether is the currency used on many major exchanges, they don’t use USD they use USDT and if tether have printed 2bn in fraudulent dollars that underly the entire crypto market they could wipe out hu
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by guildenstern 9y ago
What I don’t understand about Ripple is that from what I’ve read, their partnerships with banks are using their technology not their cryptocurrency, so where does the value in XRP come from? As in, I see the value in the Ripple platform b
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by guildenstern 9y ago
I wouldn’t discount YouTube based on that experience. That channel looks to be one of the channels that drives a lot of views through children, specifically, children watch and watch and watch these videos on TVs (driving up the viewcounts)
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by guildenstern 9y ago
"The global pattern is very much males attacking young women and girls, relating to rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals or dowry-related attacks," he says. But most of the attacks in the U.K. are random and are often co
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by guildenstern 9y ago
I live in Tower Hamlets and witnessed an acid attack a few weeks ago, the attacker was white and the victims were white. I don't feel unsafe here either.