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by richbell 4y ago
> They don't claim it's backed 1:1 by USD. They claim it's backed by more or less liquid alternatives They used to, for several years, until they were pressured to prove it and could not (27:05). https://youtu.b
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by richbell 4y ago
> This violates a few assumptions about "end to end" and the network as a dumb carrier, but in reality this is nothing new. ISPs have taken it upon themselves to enforce copyright law at the packet level as well. > The net w
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by richbell 4y ago
> You honestly believe that there was an attempt to murder the congress? They planned a mass murder, but settled for selfies in the rotunda? What about the people that showed up with tactical gear and were obviously organized and coordin
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by richbell 4y ago
> They are more or less stating that the problem is overzealous responses from police, rather than police receiving a fake call for which a SWAT team would be an appropriate response. The problem is that swatting is enabled precisely bec
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by richbell 4y ago
> Do you actually think the police send a SWAT team to every single call? I don't think that's what they're implying at all, given the context is about swatting.
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by richbell 4y ago
'Starlight Tours' are a sordid stain in Canadian history, however, I don't see how that makes it untrue or a myth. Even if the RCMP is demonstrably bad, Ontario and Quebec have their own provincial police forces, and so do a
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by richbell 4y ago
>> "Swatting" isn't a significant problem in other parts of the world because the result is super boring: The police knock on the door, ask some questions, and then leave. > Keffals was swatted in Canada, and Canada
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by richbell 4y ago
In a similar vein: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by richbell 4y ago
If this article piqued your interest, Atrocity Guide has a fantastic video about the history of cryonics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ2YEESTQUI
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by richbell 4y ago
> Wait until FTC find about Diablo Immortal. While I'm sure it's been discussed to death already, if anyone isn't familiar with the predatory design of Diablo Immortal I'd recommend this video. https://www.
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by richbell 4y ago
Thank you for digging that up and confirming! Not sure why it seems like your comment was downvoted.
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by richbell 4y ago
For some reason his replies aren't at the top, you have to expand past the first few replies.
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by richbell 4y ago
They'll slowly rehydrate and return to what they were pre-suspension. The same thing happened with Donald Trump's account after it was unsuspended.
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by richbell 4y ago
The closest comparison would be Reddit powermods who ban users from hundreds of the most active subreddits because the user: a) posted in a subreddit they don't like (this is often automated); or b) did or said something the moderator
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by richbell 4y ago
Someone does something Elon doesn't like, magically the next day there's a rule against it that's arbitrarily defined and enforced, even if it contradicts something Elon has said in the past. Like revealing a "bombshell&
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by richbell 4y ago
IIRC some pieces frame Sorkin joining as Elon being "demoted" to CTO; after ousting Sorkin, he tried to become CEO but, as you said, the board shot him down.
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by richbell 4y ago
> How could two whole continents > Lose their name to one constituent > Where were we when the U.S. went > And took the word American away > But to be fair to them > Their other name options > Like U.S.A.ers and United
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by richbell 4y ago
> Grandfather: This term has its roots in the "grandfather clause" adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks. > Red team: "Red" is often used disparagingly to refer to Indigenous peoples, so its us
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by richbell 4y ago
> This is always how it goes. Free speech absolutists that run web communities basically always stop short the moment they feel like they are under threat (regardless of any actual threat). Years ago, I was banned from a "free speec
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by richbell 4y ago
FTX is a good example: one of the investigative journalists he interviewed alleged that Bloomberg (I think, could be misremembering) refused to publish his articles critical of FTX because FTX was buying a lot of ads on their platform. Ther
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by richbell 4y ago
Gitlab no doubt has some wonderful people, but out-of-touch behaviour and scorning your most loyal user base tends to point to bad leadership. It's very difficult to course-correct bad leadership without somehow removing them — just lo
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by richbell 4y ago
Random unfounded speculation: he also doesn't want to risk souring his relationship with China.
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by richbell 4y ago
It's breaking my heart to see Gitlab's recent behaviour (e.g., deleting old projects, removing sensible pricing options). I want to give them my money but no longer can because of how prohibitively expensive it is for me to buy
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by richbell 4y ago
> I've always been bearish on TSLA though. Every car company and nation will be pumping out EVs soon. The market monopoly bull case never made sense. I think the true value is half of Toyota's market cap, and I'll be buyin
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by richbell 4y ago
> Pure speculation, but maybe this was exactly what he wanted. He originally didn't want to buy Twitter after changing his mind, he was forced to. Maybe this is in a sense his retribution for what he perceived originally as the &quo
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by richbell 4y ago
"Line Goes Up" is a long but excellent video about NFTs and the people involved with then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
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by richbell 4y ago
Logan Paul starts heavily promlting an NFT project. He claims that he's super passionate about it and has spent 1M of his own money into it, presumably to signal that it isn't a rug-pull scam like all his previous rug-pull scams.
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by richbell 4y ago
> for his airplane while he's an active target for political assasination Are you talking about the alleged incident that demonstrably had no connection to his jet tracker, and was so scary he didn't file a police report? >
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by richbell 4y ago
Hard to find the specific comment I was looking for. I think this is one of the main sources, in addition to ElonJet not having tweeted on December 13th (the day of the alleged incident). https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins&#x2
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by richbell 4y ago
If Elon Musk is legitimately afraid for his or his family's safety, it is strange that he did not file a police report and blocked people on Twitter for suggesting he do so. https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc&#x2F

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