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splintercell
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People may not like hearing this but this whole cookie issue is American capitalists fighting European bureaucrats and I know the former will win. On an even more fundamental level this is a conflict between American legal system of common
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> Only Bitcoin is actually sufficiently decentralised to withstand large take-over attempts and politics, IMO. This is just a meme. If large blockers in the blocksize wars had won, the statement would still be true. Today, you cannot go
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5y ago
NFTs are legal contracts with an assignable role of the beneficiary (generally to the owner of the NFT). They are currently being used for digital proof of ownership to digital memorabilia, but in the future expected to be used for real thi
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5y ago
I paid him the US minimum wage and that was a bit too much for him for very little work, kinda spoiled him a bit. I think I paid around $200.
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> Oh this is true of insurance everywhere Oh come on, I am comparing apples to apples (my last insurance, and my BIL's current insurance). But that's fine, I see why the mental gymnastics are being played here.
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I don't think anyone really thinks that health insurance plans cost $200 vs individual plans being $1400. Just the implication is ridiculous. Our problem wasn't the price, but the coverage. I know my BIL pays $2200 (total, includi
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5y ago
I’m not sure if I agree with your experience, in New York City Obamacare plans are horrendously bad, The coverage comes nowhere near to the crappiest employer plan. I had to hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare w
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> "follow the money, he certainly did" Maybe I read the article wrong, but it says that he makes a LOT more money now from individual subscribers than he did with Rolling Stones. That is not what people usually mean when they s
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5y ago
I think the main issue is that sometimes you just don’t want the song but other songs like that are fine, and other times you don’t want that song or any song like it. - Don’t play this song again but others like this are fine - Don’t play
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5y ago
I don't know if others share a similar belief as me about memory and understanding, but I see it as the following model: Imagine your mind as a planet full of water (like earth) and some of its area is covered in land. There are astero
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> Rights are not god given. We revolted and started a country over this, made it into a primary declaration in our independence.
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It feels like there’s a clear class difference. Almost all of these people are Hispanic/brown immigrants. If this was happening, and presuming it was worse than what the article described, what are the chances that you would know about
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5y ago
Does the logic not work the other way? If you start defending censorship of a position, you have lost the debate.
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> No, my point is that I haven't seen, and am asking for, data to back up the belief that the pursuit of mental health is causing mass seizures of people's belongings. Ah, but that was not my claim. My claim is, association of
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5y ago
> just presenting my own anecdata that I personally have not run into gun ownership issues even with my own mental health trials. Nor has my brother, who like another commenter got put into a 72-hour involuntary hold and continues to ow
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Breonna Taylor wasn’t charged in court and persecuted (technically it was her bf who was shooting back). Irrespective of whether her death was legal or not, The question was simply about the legality. Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Ta
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5y ago
Lobbying is simply an open system of advocacy where all the other countries have closed and informal systems.
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I don’t understand what are you trying to challenge here? My claim that people think that, or their belief that this does not happen? I don’t know how can I prove that people think that. You just need to be in the gun community and talk to
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Please note that automatic weapons are already banned from civilian possession. Regarding psychiatric patients and criminals, this has an exact opposite effect that you want. People are far more scared of seeking psychiatric help when they
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5y ago
Instead of saying with ‘a file extension’, It should say with ‘a reserved file extension’.
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It would make a lot more sense if you actually took time to understand the opinion of those people whose mind you aim to change with your thought experiments. You can only come up with this thought experiment if you start from the assumptio
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5y ago
Just like if you filed a report against a neighbor for domestic violence, you’re allowed to report crime on Citizen style or Neighborhood app or WhatsApp groups. Are any of these things public information?
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5y ago
The article implies that almost all of this cryptocurrency is in USDT,So that argument doesn’t apply.
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5y ago
You used the term ‘shitcoin’, which is commonly used pejorative term by bitcoiners against anything that isn’t bitcoin.
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5y ago
It’s that attitude which makes elm, an excellent programming language to learn function programming on.
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> U.S. citizenship carries extraterritorial benefits. Since we are stepping out of playing world police, we have stopped doing that FYI in the past 15-20 years incrementally so. This ain't the late 20th century anymore.
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Not true. Strike requires KYC, just like a bank does.
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My Spanish teacher in Peru has to travel one hour by bus to reach the destination for Western Union money transfer. With crypto using local crypto exchange, he receives the money directly into his bank account.
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You were just giving me arbitrary facts after saying “no”. I get this feeling you don’t understand what I’m talking about. The biggest code is lowercase was after the Dao fork when Ethereum hard forked. The argument given by Therion classic
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If Code is law then hard fork is also law. Otherwise those Ethereum classic people are saying that code is law but only the DSL of Solidity. Outside updatable Ethereum engine code is not law.
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