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by immibis 10mo ago
Do you find supporting Palestine action to be repugnant?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Murder is just the killing of people who are liked by those who control the definition of murder. But everyone still agrees murder should be illegal.
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by immibis 10mo ago
All the information you seek is found in the article you stubbornly refuse to read.
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by immibis 10mo ago
So do you think an offence was committed in this scenario?
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by immibis 10mo ago
> nilch uses the Brave search API internally for results. I wish wrappers would stop being called search engines. Google is a search engine , and so is Bing, and Yandex, and Marginalia Search. DDG, Brave, Nilch, and Kagi are search int
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by immibis 10mo ago
It's inaccurate to say there's a war against Hamas. We have enough video evidence by now, posted by the people doing the acts so there can be no doubt to its authenticity, to see it's a war against civilians.
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by immibis 10mo ago
What are people saying that gets them arrested? This important but as-yet-unanswered question is crucial to evaluating the severity of the UK's censorship regime.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Do you think if I say "hello", and this is my first communication to you, and you feel threatened, and we're in the UK, I will be arrested?
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by immibis 10mo ago
What are people saying that gets them arrested? This important question, whose answer is for some reason never specified in complaints about UK censorship, is crucial to evaluating the severity of the UK's censorship regime.
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by immibis 10mo ago
"you can't disprove something that doesn't exist" - Great, so you believe in God then. And Russell's teapot. And a natural number called fentanum, whose successor is itself.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Real bubbles also bubble for years. You have done nothing to disprove a real bubble.
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by immibis 10mo ago
If you think 3% inflation is bad, wait until you see what happens when you don't have it. The value of money has to decrease or it won't circulate - see Bitcoin.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Who cares about 95% of its landmass? You build things where people are, not uniformly across the surface.
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by immibis 10mo ago
We really need to do more adversarial interoperability. There should be a browser or at least a .onion site that blocks ads and bypasses paywalls. Yes, it would be illegal - just like a great many good things in the past, some of which led
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by immibis 10mo ago
Bluesky seems to be pre-Musk Twitter 2.0. Its content is basically the same (art + "look at the bad thing the Republicans are doing - the Democrats will solve this"). Its moderation policies are basically the same (post anything t
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by immibis 10mo ago
You could run it with fake data and some arbitrary Bitcoin price feed.
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by immibis 10mo ago
This is called being on drugs.
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by immibis 10mo ago
True! You could apply to give a talk next year. Keeping in mind that not all talks have to be main-track talks for a big audience - there are also several side rooms for minor talks and "self-organized sessions".
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by immibis 10mo ago
What in the quote screams left-wing to you? Is it just because he's San Franciscan? But that would be circular reasoning: SF is left because of its mayor, and its mayor is left because he's from SF.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Not to mention that Bluetooth on Linux is questionable to begin with.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Look at Bitcoin to see an example. It's a gambling game that is relatively useless to do transactions with.
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by immibis 10mo ago
A system that lasts a hundred years before failing is a successful system. This reminds me of comments about bankrupt companies that made massive profits for 10 years, calling them failures. That's a success and the comment is sour gra
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by immibis 10mo ago
Fed interest rates don't fluctuate anywhere close to gold prices.
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by immibis 10mo ago
I consent to zero taxes, and also not to property rights except my own. Your move, libertarians. How are you gonna have a society?
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by immibis 10mo ago
If you want to see how much a deflationary currency fails as a currency, just look at bitcoin. The wild value swings are caused by more people hoarding it than using it as a currency, which is caused by it being deflationary. Now look at mo
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by immibis 10mo ago
This is also the case with real bubbles.
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by immibis 10mo ago
If you want an economy to prosper the currency value has to remain stable. That means it has to scale with economic output. You can, of course, not do that, if you want to kneecap yourself.
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by immibis 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
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by immibis 10mo ago
Don't use Amazon, Azure or Google. You can get way more specs on your VPS for a similar price.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Another hypothesis: Also on the front page right now is something about postmodernist deconstruction, where it's asserted that decades of academics talking to academics for validation have created an inbred dialect of jargon which is i

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