leganthropane

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   by leganthropane 4y ago

   I'm sure they took privacy and data security very seriously, but they do have a Reputation. People I talk to thought of it as a telescreen, not a video conferencing tool. That probably hurt sales. I wonder if Meta could have made bette
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   by leganthropane 4y ago

   Regulated fractional reserve banks are usually insured by the regulators. If the bank goes bust, the government covers the customers' losses up to a predetermined amount (FDIC covers $250k per account in the US). This helps to prevent
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   by leganthropane 4y ago

   Their vertically-integrated logistics provides plenty of friction for switching. Sure, you could type in a different URL. But the free shipping option will probably be slow if it exists, and you'll need to place several orders with dif
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   by leganthropane 4y ago

   Machiavellian is such an odd word. People use it to mean mendacious, cunning, self-serving...but Machiavelli himself spent his later years in political exile. His seminal work reads like a groveling apology masquerading as advice to the pol
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   by leganthropane 4y ago

   This is my go-to. "Hey, kids - let's learn how to cut glass tubes and produce gases like Hydrogen and Chlorine!" Most parents recoil. But it's not really that dangerous in a well-ventilated, adult-supervised setting. The