moneytalks

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by moneytalks 9y ago
BBC is paid for by the British government, that is, politicians or oversight orgs that report to politicians. For-profit news agencies are simply delivery mechanisms for advertisements run by mostly large conglomerate corps. News happens to
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by moneytalks 9y ago
The introduction of type checking in JS could just as easily be attributed to so many devs coming from other languages who don't want to leave their strong types security blankets behind. The evidence for types preventing bugs is mixed
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by moneytalks 9y ago
I administer a couple G Suite accounts for small business owner friends purchased direct from Google. G Suite has incredible phone support. I've called 3-4 times over past 5 years and never waited more than 30 seconds to talk to a know
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Where does the $52 billion market valuation come from? All BTC ever created or those traded recently? Any evidence of the # of coins lost forever? I know I had one or two from the early days that got forgotten and lost with a hard drive wip
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Tangential point, but Amazon wants to eliminate even your spouse. Edit: I see I wasn't the only one whose brain short-circuited for a second.
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by moneytalks 9y ago
Yeah, you have to feel bad for those countries where the average person can't afford to keep the lights on on. Not pretty at all.
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by moneytalks 9y ago
My toddler says "bye bye" when he can't find a toy, runs out of water or food, when the movie is over, etc. Unless rushed, it is kind of fun to learn to communicate better with him with each passing day. His creativity in usi
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by moneytalks 9y ago
You're right, these aren't easy questions. Your examples are good ones. If my land had a trail through it that I knew was being used for human trafficking but also for natural resources preservation, I'd still have a problem
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by moneytalks 9y ago
The debate begins to parallel the right to bear arms debate. Anonymity is powerful weapon against the abuses of the state, but that anonymity can also be used to harm fellow citizens.
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by moneytalks 9y ago
If you provide a tool to a criminal that they use in commission of a crime, you are assisting them and should generally be prosecuted unless a good reason exists to counter. Is providing a public service a "good enough" reason? If
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by moneytalks 9y ago
There's a lot to debate. If you're running a TOR node, you have child porn traversing your system. You also have a whistleblower's traffic who might be beaten or tortured if found. Does the existence of the latter negate the
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by moneytalks 10y ago
Not sure how anyone running around swearing at people is going to accomplish a damn thing. In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that needs to learn not to create value in an institution driven by profit instead of soci