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by jude- 5y ago
Gee, it's almost as if moderation is necessary for communities to thrive! Imagine that.
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by jude- 5y ago
...he complained, on a widely-read website, in front of an audience of millions.
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by jude- 5y ago
Why assume a state actor? Given the sorry state of DeFi contract security, it's far more likely that an enterprising hacker can gain a dominant staking position by pillaging and then staking ETH from buggy contracts.
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by jude- 5y ago
The microchip shortage has impeded new car manufacturing, and car fleet operators are buying back fleets they sold during the pandemic to stay afloat. Give it a year.
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by jude- 5y ago
Don't like Google Drive's policy? Use a different hosting service, or run your own. Seriously. It's a free country and a free market, and if they don't want to do business with you, they don't have to (and it's
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by jude- 5y ago
> But I do know that every time people tout a deplatforming success, I find out about a new cesspool a few months after the fact. Good, keep them scrambling. Time spent scrambling to re-establish your online presence is time not spent tr
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by jude- 5y ago
These things aren't really part of a graphical user interface.
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by jude- 5y ago
I have the same question. The longer I've used Linux as my main OS, the less I've needed a desktop environment. My setup for the last half-decade has been basically the same as yours, and I've found it to be more producti
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by jude- 5y ago
> "In 2019, Fox News was the top-rated cable network, averaging 2.5 million viewers."[1] Be that as it may, cable is also on the way out [1], and 2.5 million viewers is just over 1% of the voting population in the US. By contr
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by jude- 5y ago
Original text was > Big Tech could stop being Big Brother and then both consumers and Republicans would be happy. Emphasis mine. Consumers and Repulicans would be happy until Republicans start weaponizing Big Tech to overthrow democ
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by jude- 5y ago
> You seem to be under the impression that building their own infrastructure will be some sort of barrier for multi-billion dollar organizations. I'm still waiting for the Republican (formerly alt-right) alternatives to YouTube, Fac
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by jude- 5y ago
Until Republicans start using Big Tech to coordinate violent anti-democratic insurrections and dissuade people from getting vaccinated against a global lethal pandemic. Big Tech owes them nothing -- they're not entitled to their infras
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by jude- 5y ago
That's why I advocate for running the NIMBYs out of town. I meant it literally. NIMBYs are not only pro-homelessness and pro-urban-decay, but also pro-climate-apocalypse and anti-growth. In my mind, the only difference between NIMBYs
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by jude- 5y ago
It's all well and good for us folks in the West to talk about reducing consumption, but the reality check we need to hear is that the "West" is no more than 20% of humanity (give or take, depending on how you count). Like it
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by jude- 5y ago
> Taxing emissions just allows some government a-hole to make a buck and you still get the emissions how is that better? Easy: sanction their asses. We banned CFCs, remember? We didn't even need 100% compliance to be effective at re
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by jude- 5y ago
Do they want everyone to switch en masse to end-to-end encrypted communications? Because this is how you encourage that.
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by jude- 5y ago
> Why does the answer to everything have to be a tax that allows government to become even more bloated. Because assholes exist who will gladly burn the planet down to make a buck. > If using computing power like this is so bad just m
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by jude- 5y ago
Sanders isn't a member of the Democratic Party. The DNC owes him nothing. It would have been corrupt for the DNC to spend its resources backing a candidate who was not a registered Democrat.
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by jude- 5y ago
You don't even need that. A buggy DeFi contract will happily give an attacker all its ETH.
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by jude- 5y ago
Staking ETH isn't risk-free or hassle-free -- you have to keep a validator running and online, on pain of getting slashed. If you're not going to outsource your validators to $CLOUD_PROVIDER or $EXCHANGE (which you shouldn't,
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by jude- 5y ago
An attacker only needs to fool the network for a short amount of time -- e.g. to double-spend someone. It doesn't matter to the attacker that they are eventually discovered; what matters is that they can get away with it before getting
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by jude- 5y ago
The West would have legal standing to sanction, freeze the assets of, and arrest employees of oligarchs who use their wealth to commit financial crimes in the West. So yes, having leaks from Russia is very useful.
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by jude- 5y ago
That's quite a stretch. No, the DNC didn't "rig" the primary; Clinton actually did receive far more votes than Sanders. Also, nothing you linked implicates anyone in "buying" federal appointments.
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by jude- 5y ago
What did they resign for, exactly? IIRC it was a nothingburger -- it was because they privately said mean things about Bernie Sanders, and not much else.
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by jude- 5y ago
So we should just turn a blind eye to oligarchs' crimes against the Russian people? Come now.
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by jude- 5y ago
Yeah, sounds like someone needs to go to jail here.
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by jude- 5y ago
> Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is? Why should anyone trust Julian Assange in the first place? Specifically, why should anyone trust that Julian Assange dumps all the data
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by jude- 5y ago
Hard to make that work in an open-membership p2p setting.
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by jude- 5y ago
Glad to see this! Best of luck with dealing with this problem -- it's not an easy one, even when the system is centralized.
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by jude- 5y ago
More like a tax on the latecomers.

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