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by speakfreely 2y ago
You will need to do some mental gymnastics to find a criminal statute that could be used to prosecute that and it does not appear the US Attorney for DC is at all interested in doing that.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I think you're confusing proof of work with proof of stake. The integrity of the Bitcoin network is enforced by the miners agreeing on the rules, not by anyone staking their ownership for governance.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
It's very common in transactions of this size that the seller "rolls" some equity, I.e. retains some ownership moving forward. The buyer likes this because it theoretically keeps them invested in the future of the company an
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I doubt anyone would deny the policy actions themselves are clumsy but it's important to remember that a majority of the country believes they are directionally correct. People were desperate to escape the rot of the status quo and ch
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by speakfreely 2y ago
See "corporate criminal liability".
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I think he's referring to the NY state case, which is difficult to dispute that it was done for political purposes. Although I'm sure Trump would say it applies to the federal classified documents case, as well.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
You’ve explained your position and OP exposed the holes in your logic. Please don’t pretend to take the high road when someone has engaged with good faith discussion that didn’t end the way you hoped.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I think OP was saying the most damaging content is arriving via iMessage.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Radio was the original moral panic. Then television. Then video games. Now we're on to social media. But this time feels different. Why? Because even the adults are noticing they can't control themselves. Their attention in
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I think OP is saying that it's more of an insurance policy than something to make you happy. If you asked any software dev 5 years ago what their career security looked like, I'm sure most would tell you that they feel extremely
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Because there's a single payor that tells providers how much things are going to cost. The short answer for why US healthcare is so expensive is that Americans are economically disconnected from the price of the healthcare they are co
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Germany is facing more intense economic challenges than most.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Agree with everything you wrote, with one small caveat: the "white male" thing is really only a notable disadvantage with large companies. Every startup I've interacted with has always prioritized hiring the person who is mo
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I had a similar bad experience with religion growing up that left me very anti-organized religion. It wasn't until adulthood that I met people for whom religion appeared to be a positive developmental force on their personality. I am
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I suspect most parents would be prepared to risk the lives of strangers' children if it stopped their own from being killed.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Properly propagandized parents have no issue letting their perspectives flow to their children.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I think there's two shifts that play a major role in explaining the timing that you're referencing: - The 2010s represented a progressivist left-ward shift in America and the excesses of that movement are provoking a reactionary c
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Yes, it's pretty scary that anyone sees things so black and white and would encourage their children to do the same. These are multi-decade conflicts where no one has clean hands.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
> If you don't have decades of built up propaganda But how are you so sure that doesn't apply to you?
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by speakfreely 2y ago
This is the inevitable result of higher connectivity in society. More spoils flow to top performers due to the reduced friction. I don't see any way to undo this trend short of undoing the connectivity, i.e. forcibly rolling back tec
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by speakfreely 2y ago
First-time home buyers are getting squeezed by a combination of peaking market forces, but those forces are peaking and we're probably seeing the worst of it at this moment [1]. It will get better. [1] https://unchartedterr
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Customers actually do have a way to retaliate against establishments they feel are abusive: leave a bad review. Businesses depend on the organic traffic they get from Google and Yelp listings, so sustained feedback against abusive tipping
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by speakfreely 2y ago
From your link: > The Lazard study looked at the “cost of firming,” which consists of building extra capacity to back up solar and wind, for example, leading to an increase in total costs. When included, the economic advantage for solar
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by speakfreely 2y ago
> The price of renewables has plunged to be cheaper than fossil fuels Is there a source for this? If you're referencing LCOE, remember that does not account for storage costs for intermittent power sources (wind, solar) so it'
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by speakfreely 2y ago
> humanity should be working on a peaceful painless extinction We're already way ahead of you. Check out developed country birth rates.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
> But my point is we probably just need a global reduction in luxury and quality of life ultimately. Of all proposed political policies, "degrowth" is the standout for being the most ludicrous ask of developing countries. A lo
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Lol I was just about to say this. It seems unlikely that someone that has transcended their ego would choose to spend their free time telling others what an accomplishment it has been. Everyone typically has their imagined "edge"
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by speakfreely 2y ago
The DNC has been successful in making fascism much more diverse.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Since the US effectively became a unipolar power sometime in the late 1980s, the share of the human population living in extreme poverty has fallen off a cliff [ https://ourworldindata.org/poverty#all-charts ]. Yes, that has
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Is there some further requirement that the family reside in it as their primary residence for a specific amount of time? What is considered "local"? What if local families are already affluent? What qualifies as a "family&

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