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by ummwhat 7y ago
It costs over a grand to quit the club known as "citizenship" you're going to want citizenship in wherever you reside first when you give up US citizenship (you could choose to be stateless, but that makes more problems than
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Read the indictment for yourself. Namely page 16 and 17 which account for charges 3-21 of the indictment (the vast majority of it). The only company within US jurisdiction that BTC-E did business with is a company called "tradehill&quo
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Ostensible justification: some trivial amount of money laundering could be traced to the US (iirc a few thousand dollars worth). Real justification: Extraterritoriality is a thing you get to do when you're an empire.
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Considering how often some ad hoc fix is going on like "A is running the F on this part of the route" or "only uptown service between here and there this weekend" or "express is local for now", having maps that
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Computer fraud and abuse act.
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It's not about "calling himself" Jesus Christ so much as convincing others that he is literally Jesus Christ. Basically it's a form of fraud (or maybe insanity, who knows) One of the common sense criteria is you're
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The US is much more liberal about this. You have to pay a fee and put in some paperwork and make an announcement in a news paper with a certain amount of readers and a judge will deny requests that violate a very limited set of common sense
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Same reason cars were once called horseless carriages
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>Most people on any platform are consumers, Yes but one post can eat many user-hours. A minority of people can be making content and you would still have a supply glut.
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>TikTok lets whoever's talented become at least relatively popular Enjoy it while it lasts. No user generated content meritocracy ever lasts. Not steam greenlight, not the app store, not new grounds, not YouTube etc. The problem wit
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Since neutrons don't have an electric charge, they are hard to deflect. Neutrons are really only deflected by head on collisions with an atomic nucleus whereas charged particles are deflected by a near miss due to the electromagnetic f
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True that (Posted at (5+4i):(37+5.23812i) AM)
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This will make a nice addition to my office computing playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIYRqpIFecpDSXqCOddU...
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Gen-x era? I'm a gosh darn industry murderin millennial and I remember it.
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RBMK 1000?! The same model as Chernobyl. No thanks.
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Meh. A heat engine. So it is subject to the Carnot engine efficiency limit. No thanks. Direct solar cells ought to be much better.
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by ummwhat 7y ago
The term "monopoly on violence" does not mean the sole user of violence or even a frequent user, merely that anyone who wishes to use violence legitimately (aka legally) must get permission from the monopoly holder. https:/&
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You're actually both right. In international relations there's two competing notions of nationhood. One notion is being recognized as such by other countries. The other notion is having land, a permanent population, and a monopoly
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All this hoopla about state level actors and un bans and scavenging the tech, but realistically speaking of any of us really really needed to, we could probably bolt a gun to a drone and use pytorch/tensor flow/whatever to make a
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The confusion arises because I'm not at all talking about filtering rotten content (aka facebooks instance of the problem). I'm talking about sorting for good content, possibly identifying a niche hit in a stack of shovelware. On
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I think you're view will change when you start putting numbers on it. I'm going to talk about the games in the app store example because it's the instance of the problem that I first thought about and it is easier to put a mo
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How does that solve the problem that the incoming content stream flows faster than any curation mechanism we can economically build today?
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I've talked about this somewhere else. What you're seeing is just a manifestation of what I call "the fundamental problem of user created content." Said problem is that warehousing and distributing content scales insanel
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Not for lack of trying. https://youtu.be/kR5gefU87TY
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I literally learned nothing about what makes their wartime piano different from their usual piano.
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This is true even outside video tech. To gain adoption a product doesn't just need to be better. It needs to be so much better that it's worth the effort of adoption. That's why every "Facebook killer" dies on the v
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I'm not sure what the underlying legal theory is in defining terrorist groups, but maybe ex post facto applies here. If the defining of the group as terrorist is done by passing of a law then this is pretty open and shut. If it's
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Ok fine I'll turn flippant curt mode off for a moment. I don't actually like Facebook. I don't work for them. I don't use them. But if a government is going to ban something they should have a compelling reason. It'
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He's right. China banned Facebook and no one is accusing Russia of hacking their elections. Clearly banning Facebook is the path forward for democracy and civil liberties. clearly.
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First let's dig more shallow. Op asked why we don't do anything if everyone involved wants something done. The answer is we vote for it and we do do something. It just so happens the severity of the homeless problem is in equilibr

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