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by zen21 4y ago
It’s hard to understand why the existing employees would feel any loyalty now. Even if that don’t have any problem with Musk’s management style, they no longer have stock options, and any profit the company makes is going to pay back a loa
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by zen21 4y ago
A casino going bankrupt means gambling addicts will be able to seek treatment for their illness.
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by zen21 4y ago
Why would a weighted coin have 50-50 odds? That sounds like a fair coin, and miscalculated odds.
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by zen21 4y ago
1: “Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by greed." 2: “Never assume malice by that which could be explained by incompetence.” 1+2 = 3: “Never attribute malice to that which can be adequately by greed”
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by zen21 4y ago
In the absence of a government, people would respond to fraud using violence. The government protects embezzlers and fraudsters from the violence of those they have cheated, but in turn creates non-violent consequences for such behaviors.
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by zen21 4y ago
Would you say they are A-OK?
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by zen21 4y ago
Crypto isn’t money. The money has already changed hands when people speculated on the tokens. If anything, wiping crypto off the books will be deflationary to real currencies.
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by zen21 4y ago
Presumably the world in general. Just like the sooner cigarettes are gone the better.
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by zen21 4y ago
Who would you trust instead?
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by zen21 4y ago
This seems to leave out the existence of debuggers in IDEs. These days I tend to run most new code in the debugger, and step through it so I can see what’s going on. This works great in say, Rust, Python, or Swift. I haven’t used Java for
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by zen21 4y ago
And pay a fee, just to change your keys. Remind me of the benefits of this system again?
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by zen21 4y ago
You’d probably like ApplePay. A great payment flow and the protections of being able to charge back or rectify problems. Also, no need to deal with insane price fluctuations and collapsing exchanges impacting the price of pizza.
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by zen21 4y ago
Why ‘must’ it?
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by zen21 4y ago
Nor will ~1B of the rest.
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by zen21 4y ago
Yes, by acquiring new customers who then buy further products and services. It could also just be sold as a service, or an addition to iCloud+.
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by zen21 4y ago
For Apple it could just be a customer acquisition cost.
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by zen21 4y ago
I guess we now know that A-OK just means one day away from declaring bankruptcy.
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by zen21 4y ago
It seems like you believe that trusting anyone is stupid.
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by zen21 4y ago
How do they plan to avoid violence when there are betrayals of trust?
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by zen21 4y ago
“Bankruptcy is a possibility”
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by zen21 4y ago
And was fine afterwards.
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by zen21 4y ago
Luckily in many cases this is in fact not “on you”, but rather is a crime , or is subject to civil litigation depending on the nature of the fraud in question. This helps to avoid instances of retributive violence, which is the general sol
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by zen21 4y ago
Clubhouse lost its shine on its own. It simply didn’t scale on a social level and became a cesspool of crypto scams and conspiracy theorists looking for marks.
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by zen21 4y ago
What about if you buy something you thought you understood, but that’s only because you were lied to?
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by zen21 4y ago
Why would Google defederating be worse than how things are now? Gmail users are not currently on mastodon anyway and things are fine.
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by zen21 4y ago
You seem to overlook the fact that Europe became dependent on Russian Energy against the wishes of the US . You also seem to have selected an unrepresentative set of scare headlines. Gas prices are in fact plunging in Europe, and the winte
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by zen21 4y ago
Economic repercussions of Covid and Putin’s war are to be expected and not ‘suicide’. Reliance on Russian energy was something the US strongly disapproved of.
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by zen21 4y ago
Europe seems surprisingly alive for someone who has committed ‘suicide’.
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by zen21 4y ago
> 1. The value* you add to the economic 'stream' flowing around you *Real or imagined value.
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by zen21 4y ago
What does A-OK mean? No exposure at all?

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