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by swift532 7y ago
Only it's a bit easier and cheaper (en masse) to go to the New World instead of space which will likely be quite exclusive.
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by swift532 7y ago
No reason to feel bad about it anyways, funnily enough the only reason why I know this is the folllowing sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo8FR8GGoJ0
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by swift532 7y ago
Sorry for the aside and the patronizing tone, but it's actually ignoramuses and not ignorami, as the word comes from the Latin verb meaning "we are ignorant", so it has no plural form.
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by swift532 7y ago
Well Greece is the example I was going to name. It doesn't happen that often, but it's quite possible. As for the FDIC, there's a similar deal in most countries up to a specific amount(FDIC is $150K, other countries sometimes
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by swift532 7y ago
It's such bullshit that they can do that, especially as they're so dominant.
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by swift532 7y ago
I still like Amazon more for physical goods due to having to pay no customs (and more importantly, not suffer through the Kafkaesque process of handling customs in my country) on orders from within the EU Amazon sites.
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by swift532 7y ago
What can also happen with banks is that they forbid you from withdrawing more than a certain amount, or take x% from the top of every account because of economic issues.
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by swift532 7y ago
It feels like a defeat, though, to have the word cryptocurrency co-opted by things such as this. Wouldn't it be easier to call this bullshit, and decentralized currencies cryptocurrencies? /s
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by swift532 8y ago
I don't have a perfect opinion of Google, but I for one do not mind that people care about things and not every corporation is a soulless blood sucking monster that doesn't care about anything except the bottom line. I think this
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by swift532 8y ago
50% of revenue sounds more like chopping off an arm or a leg than starting to hurt.
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by swift532 8y ago
Well, I also use my car as a giant man-purse. Furthermore, sometimes you want to travel out of the beaten path and it's possible that the only way you can get there is with your own car.
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by swift532 8y ago
The book you're remembering is Childhood's End.
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by swift532 8y ago
Personally, I am not paying for it because it's not officially available in my country for whatever reason. I realize there's rights issues etc., but if someone won't take my money, I feel no guilt whatsoever doing whatever I
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by swift532 8y ago
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I'm not sure how profitable that can be, but it'd certainly be ethical and useful to people. I do think it'd be sustainable at least.
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by swift532 8y ago
But who watches the watchers? It would be supremely ironic if such a service shut down.
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by swift532 8y ago
I disagree, those shareholders know what they're getting into when they buy the stock. I do agree with just about 95% of criticism directed at Facebook, so this isn't me defending them specifically. I just don't see why dual
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by swift532 8y ago
That is your opinion (and I would also appreciate being able to do anything I want with my iPhone), but it's clearly not how Apple sees it.
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by swift532 8y ago
I think there are some web services which open up a web page in a specific browser version and stream that back to you. Perhaps you can try and have them run it in a newer browser. I can't name a site off the top of my head, but googli
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by swift532 8y ago
I definitely think so from my limited experience. I ate what seemed like normal meals in bars and ethnic restaurants in NYC, but in other areas we'd go to some place like Chilli's were the calories are insane - most appetizers are
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by swift532 8y ago
They'd still be trusted in the sense that they decide if a bug was fixed or not, but at least transparency would be achieved. You could independently check exactly where your money went.
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by swift532 8y ago
If someone is badly underperforming, then they can fire them. It's simply ridiculous for a company to own a second of your time outside work hours, excepting things like people on call, of course, but I count that under work hours.
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by swift532 8y ago
I hear iOS devs say that, but code editing in XCode for me is very uncomfortable compared to Webstorm, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio. There are no tabs for open files to speak of (XCode opens a new XCode for their "tabs"), t
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by swift532 8y ago
MimbleWimble is a protocol, not a coin. Grin, though I'd still say it's a bit funny sounding, is acceptable. The backstory of how it was released and why it's called MimbleWimble is pretty cool.
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by swift532 8y ago
> The reality is that any SQL database would be superior to every blockchain unless your motives are criminal nature. What if you're a person in China in the future, your social credit is crap, and the only way you can buy bread is
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by swift532 8y ago
They'll do something that amounts to pretty much the same thing.
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by swift532 8y ago
I might be reaching a bit, but I'd think that, with current technology, psyops etc., it should not be that hard to defeat any rebellion before it ever starts - whether by neutralizing (not "kill" in the USA, but deincentivize
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by swift532 8y ago
Agreed. Once the taboo of violence against other officials in the state got broken, all hell broke loose.
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by swift532 8y ago
Please don't be mad as I'm not trying to provoke, but I believe 'who' goes here, not 'whom', as from what I understand, whom is used when something is being done/given to something. Perhaps I'm simpli
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by swift532 8y ago
Sorry, perhaps I should've put my commment higher up. I was referring to the general problem of the article, which I understood to be enabled (among other things) by the possibility of unlocking, turning on, and driving a car without t
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by swift532 8y ago
As someone who turns their car on by inserting their key into a slot in it, all this seems quite convoluted just for the convenience of pushing a button. I don't understand why the car would even let you accelerate at all if the key is

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