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syshum
5y ago
So much wrong here lets start with this >The world's richest man had half his wealth taken like that I assume you are talking Bezo's divorce, you might want to actually look into that if you believe that. he did not have half
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5y ago
Then they need to stop claiming to "sell" you something when clearly they are renting it Of course no one in their right mind would pay the retail prices for a "rental" so screws the business model, but honestly, they n
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5y ago
Your point assumes that unions only work for workers History proves that to be a false assumption. Unions are a corporition like any other. They are driven by the need to increase their own power and profit. They do that by increasing the
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5y ago
Uber is not sustainable now. All that will happen is A. Ride-sharing collapses and everyone returns to the taxi model B. Prices goes WAY WAY up, less people can afford it likey resulting in A C. Every is classified as an employee and driv
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5y ago
>>>You risk allowing yourself to be ruled and abused by corrupt corporations Absent Government there can be no corporations, Business sure, but business absent government looks very different Corporations are fictional entities cr
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5y ago
Government Regulation is not an important tool, and it will ALWAYS be abused in harmful ways. This has always been true, and will always be true The Stronger and more centralized the government, the more abuse and harm will come Weak, dist
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5y ago
Wow, this is sooo disingenuous I can not believe it is even being said Aside from the fact that where a metric ton of regulations targeting processing adult content payments under the guide of "protecting the children" There is
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5y ago
Reality shows that not to be the case. How many "SWATTING" incidents now has resulted in much more than "some officer stopping by"....
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5y ago
>>Ok, but… how do I profit? To some people the ethical problems with this system are worth the effort to make their implementation impossible. if you are asking for monetary profit, that does not have to be a goal for someone to want
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5y ago
because I do not believe it is meaningless?? Why do you think learning a skill, providing value, and learning how to function in an economy are "meaningless"...
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5y ago
Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime... What is more humane. Having them depend on the charity and free goods of others, or building their economy to be self sustaining
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syshum
5y ago
>>Otherwise the waiter/waitress typically asks you how much you want to pay before typing in the amount. That is never going to work in the US. Very few people would be comfortable with that.
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syshum
5y ago
Depends on the transaction, but merchants can absolutely be liable for fraud before the EMV shift... Also the rate of mag fraud is still pretty low, more Online Fraud which was ALWAYS liable to the merchant and did not see to do much ti in
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5y ago
Atleast you are not the person still writing a paper check..... I switched to curb side pickup, I hope I never have to enter a grocery store again
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syshum
5y ago
And yet still many many many business have SPF records that do not pass validation which IMO is worse than not having them at all
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syshum
5y ago
Commercial Support is more CYA for the people implementing technology, not a realistic way to get actual support It is way to shift blame, and responsibility
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syshum
5y ago
>Also, cheese for example seems to be packaged with plastics a lot more than, say, paper. Sorry you are not taking my individually wrapped cheese single slices
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5y ago
In some cases that is result of super super low flow fixtures + bad pressure. Commercial fixtures need higher pressure than a home fixture, and sometimes the office building can not provide proper pressure, combined with wanting under a gal
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5y ago
Corporations are not capitalism... Corporation are fictitious legal entities created by government. With out government there can be no corporations. Corporatism is not "capitalism without control", Corportism is the direct res
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5y ago
The shortages came too quickly to claim it was just WFH unless people generally only buy enough to get by for a week at a time.. I generally restock on paper goods like that ever 3-6 months, not weekly...
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5y ago
More likely if Microsoft did it, they would integrate Steam into the store, or allow Steam to be installed via the store They have already signaled their willingness to add 3rd party stores with their partnership with Amazon for Android App
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5y ago
Is it really E2EE if there is an MITM application scanning and reporting everything????? Seems like the existence of this scanning agent by default makes it not E2EE anymore
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syshum
5y ago
Yes, but this is what happens when you make the 4th amendment in to Swiss cheese with exception after exception you do not want criminals to escape justice to do you???? /s
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5y ago
Acting as a agent, used to anyway, mean the 4th amendment attached to the company if they WERE NOT acting as an agent then the 4th would not apply. I think they way they get around that is not do not report to the FBI but instead to NCMEC
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syshum
5y ago
Because for the last at least 80 years the constitution as not been seen as a document limiting government power, but instead as a document limiting the peoples rights it has literally been inverted from it original purpose
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5y ago
>here are perfectly rational reasons to pursue the spread of such material. sure but people should also keep in mind that pursuit could massively backfire, like in the case of backpage, where the shutdown of the site actually made is H
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5y ago
>>We should focus on getting more vaccine uptake rather than mask debates. I agree, though I suspect we will disagree on how to go about that.
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5y ago
>>Mask wearing and behavior changes last year were massively effective against flu, by accident. This is assuming facts not in evidence. there are other factors at play 1. Many people avoided seeking medical treatment that normally w
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5y ago
Thanks for admitting that you are treating this like Polio, and not like the Flu... Treating COVID like polio is foolish, and naive. All indications are COVID will be an annual thing like the flu, chances are mutations will be more trans
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5y ago
It is not, it is creating platform echo chambers. The video is not taken offline, it was just taken off YT. So you end up with silo's of information where different groups of people have a different reality, which IMO is even more d
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