mvieira38

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by mvieira38 2y ago
This might be the sad truth. Good morals don't look like a winning strategy
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We can't ignore the influence of money even on open source, though. How many people are contributing in an anonymous manner, so they can't claim financial benefits from publicity and networking? How many open source projects are r
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Yup. Unless you're providing a truly zero-access encrypted service such as chat (e.g. Signal), there truly is no way of avoiding it while staying afloat as a private company. It seems people don't understand that email, which is P
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I wouldn't mind tbh, it's way better than ads and would keep me from watching bad content
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Imagine being a teen with an Android in the Apple Invite age, the bullying will go crazy
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This would eventually collapse to people reading articles they do not actually like (i.e. get happiness from reading), I think, maybe tragic history facts or something like that? The truth of social media harm is that it's more about h
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And it doesn't work unless you buy your bitcoin peer to peer, as any exchange will just leave a log relating your buying to your wallet, and liquidate it peer to peer as well. Any transactions with regulated institutions will doxx your
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It is almost trivial for a 3-letter agency to track bitcoin flow. Every transaction is entirely public with only pseudonyms to obfuscate identity, and with the current KYC laws good luck not getting doxxed while buying BTC. We need to move
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From visiting the US, it was always clear to me that the expectations on service worker's cheerfulness are unreasonable and frequently creepy.
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There are plenty of very rigorous definitions of what a soul is, though. Judging by your screen name I take you're already familiar with Aristotle, so what's your issue with his hierarchy of souls (vegetative, sensitive and ration
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Most (orthodox) theologians actually preach that modern psychology, or "neuroscience", is fundamentally incorrect, so any translation effort would be ultimately unfruitful