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seppin
8y ago
> So it's not state owned but might be state controlled What's the difference?
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8y ago
Silicon Valley in general has mandated positivity to the point that if you ware honest about anything, you are labeled "negative" and shunned.
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seppin
8y ago
Exactly, if you use IG in an unhealthy way, don't be surprised if you feel worse after using it. Only follow your friends and people you actually care about. Then it's a feed of interesting thing about people you actually like. Pr
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8y ago
> We might soon learn that the Russian Collusion story was mass hysteria in hindsight. What we know is the actions of the sitting President of the US didn't rise to the legally provable action of actively working with a hostile fore
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seppin
8y ago
"I'm just some fucking guy"
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8y ago
> Question everything' is a good approach to assessing information from all sources No it's not. Questioning climate science at a time where the consensus is near-universal and the consequences are dire and imminent is itself d
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8y ago
> Border towns are very unsafe right now They have been for years, mostly because of drug traffickers and mafia types. That hasn't changed.
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seppin
8y ago
downloaded it to check out the hype, pretty much all under age kids doing borderline stuff. But no different than Youtube I guess
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seppin
8y ago
It has almost none of my contacts on them. Pretty useless as a messenger as such.
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8y ago
Is seems we disagree about what culture actually is, so agreed.
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8y ago
Are you actually implying that lithuania wanted to be part of the Soviet union? Read a book, or talk to a lithuanian.
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8y ago
I never mentioned 19th century Russia. Invading to occupy, oppress, steal, and subjugate is 20th century Russia, no need to go back any further. As I said before, justifying Russia acting like a medieval power in 2018 by citing American exp
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8y ago
1. Before the legal concept of a nation-state, all countries were formed via conflict. Every.single.one. What's your point? 2. Overseas territories are more complicated, most have semi or fully autonomous status, while others voted to
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8y ago
> Its various political associations Ex-Soviet states didn't choose a "political association" as you say, they were invaded and brutally occupied in an attempt to erase their existence. Nazis get the proper context in 20th
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8y ago
Ah we're going back before the concept of nation states, huh? That's a reach. Well, in that case almost every country in the world needs to be re-partitioned and given back to indigenous populations, most of which are long since w
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8y ago
> My midwestern parents spend half their evenings on Facebook with Netflix on in the background now instead of simply watching cable TV. Then your argument is for LA creating culture, which it does, not SF. "Tech" distributes a
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8y ago
hot dang
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seppin
8y ago
exactly, if it was "just code" it wouldn't be worth anything, and they'd be no stakes.
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seppin
8y ago
I love these comments
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seppin
8y ago
Is that higher or lower than Visa ?
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seppin
8y ago
> You don't lose all of the benefits of cryptocurrency if the payment layer is scaled up with centralized solutions. What are the benefits if you relay solely on existing payment networks for transactions?
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8y ago
I did the same thing via browser on a new laptop. Just l/p
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8y ago
> reuniting with a piece of your own territory stolen during the dissolution of the USSR. LOL. The Soviet Union was an empire forged through invasion, occupation, and brutal repression. The Russians have as much right to Czechoslovakia a
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0. That's the number of oil contracts US companies received in Iraq post invasion. The US acts recklessly and causes much misery and death through its actions. It don't invade places with the intention of occupying and steal land&
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8y ago
Are those countries now part of the United States? You should read more carefully before responding.
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8y ago
Tesla is by far the most popular car in Norway, and the highest per capita ownership in the world.
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8y ago
*on request by and with permission of the Ecuadorian embassy itself
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8y ago
Interesting take, thanks.
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8y ago
> Technological and social impact. That's what makes SF a financial capital. What are its cultural contributions? Hoodies and overpriced coffee? > SV owns the west's attention and behavior right now Tech acts to capture and
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8y ago
> What do you consider the other ones? London obviously, but they might be turning inwards with Brexit and losing that status. The next tier is Tokyo, maybe another Asian capital soon. Paris, Vienna, etc. were part of a Euro-centric worl
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