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by zionic 5y ago
They’ll do this to companies on our own soil, why wouldn’t they do it to “allies”?
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by zionic 5y ago
Even if you don’t care about the climate/environment, the impact of petrochemicals on human health cannot be understated. They have filled our biosphere with carcinogens and endocrine disrupters for profit. It’s about more than just en
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by zionic 5y ago
Alcohol doesn't change who you are, but it certainly removes your filter. The problem with that is a lot of polite society depends on said filters, the overwhelming majority of people quite simply can't handle the truth.
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by zionic 5y ago
Seriously. Meanwhile on boomer news > A single web server caught fire somewhere in Bolivia, is social media over? (+20000 points)
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by zionic 5y ago
By this logic most e-commerce is a mistake as well, since a serious flaw in the linux kernel could take down most web servers.
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by zionic 5y ago
Highly misleading. The DNC’s mail servers got hacked and they got everything done The “RNC hack” was one guy’s old laptop with a years out of date local outlook db. Not even in the same league.
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by zionic 5y ago
It adds a consequence to griefing/PVP. If you’re a pirate who has been to prison multiple times you really don’t want to go back… so your behavior is different.
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by zionic 5y ago
How is the “market deciding” when men with guns will show up to your server room and shut you down?
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by zionic 5y ago
You could always physically destroy the port and just use wireless charging
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by zionic 5y ago
They have probably found an exploit to non-persistently install a 3rd party keyboard (what a mistake that feature was!) that writes all content to unprotected disk. All apps have this ability (to write to disk that is “always available”) Th
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by zionic 5y ago
DAI kept its peg while ETH went all the way up to 1440 and back down to $70. It’s also kept it up from $70 to $4400 and back to $2300, so we’re well within norms.
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by zionic 5y ago
Strict liability crime. The law, as written, defines a nebulous and ever changing set of circumstances where you are criminally liable. To me I see no functional difference between a “democratic” rule of law where you are always commuting s
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by zionic 5y ago
How many of those users have 8.8.8.8 as DNS and have no clue they pipe all their usage to google?
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by zionic 5y ago
I guess it’s good news it took a century of effort go from 200->420 then. Hopefully we can stop it around 600 or so.
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by zionic 5y ago
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by zionic 5y ago
Could the entire core of a planet get cold enough to superconduct... and if so could it interact in odd ways with the parent star's magnetic field?
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by zionic 5y ago
That's actually a rather weak argument, as it ignores the phenomenon's own intelligence. This would work if it was natural/"dumb".
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by zionic 5y ago
That video was debunked, the author clearly has no idea how these systems work. >GAO is currently reviewing the contracts granted to those folks as well. The inspector general is investigating the complete and total failure of our bureau
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by zionic 5y ago
>UFOs are more inpressive (advanced flight tech, little green men) but fictional. The only people who believe this haven't studied the data, or dug any deeper than surface level. If we disqualify all single-witness events and only s
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by zionic 5y ago
These cartel bosses have fancy cars and luxurious homes. We could drone them all day every day if we wanted, but we don’t because they are employees of our intelligence services. They pay their tribute and they get to be rich, while “our” s
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by zionic 5y ago
Between virtualized geometry and raytracing the amount of work to make a game is steadily going down. Artists can simply make objects at full quality (no more manual LOD creation!) and put stuff in a scene and the lights _just work_.
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by zionic 5y ago
I’m not sure we can count on the governments that keep JA rotting in prison to rescue a journalist.
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by zionic 5y ago
I believe the core problem with your position is you're not acknowledging the orders of magnitude in cost between protecting a fishery or enforcing food safety standards vs say... $10 Trillion to blow up and rebuild Iraq. You've a
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by zionic 5y ago
>Those programs have broad public support. Which is largely an education problem. Diamonds have overwhelming public support and are essentially a scam. We need to build sustainable, healthy systems that work for our population and don&#x
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by zionic 5y ago
>As for the philosophical argument that they take my money by force, I just don't get it. "No taxation without representation" was one of the core driving motivations behind the American revolution. The problem is that I,
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by zionic 5y ago
>If the US government is taking $10k in taxes from you, you're making over $80k a year. This is an extreme lower bound looking only at FICA. In reality you have: -FICA -State income tax -Local taxes for your city -Social security an
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by zionic 5y ago
Perhaps initially, but the additional demand would drive economic expansion via demand for more workers to fill said demand no?
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by zionic 5y ago
>By the way, I am off of disability now. That's great to hear! The issue I take with your story is not that you got help, but that a government mandated retirement program should never have been retrofitted to provide socialized hea
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by zionic 5y ago
Social security is effectively a boomer ponzi scheme relying on infinite population growth to sustain itself. It falls apart the first time a generation realizes they can reap more than they sow by having/investing in fewer children, b
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by zionic 5y ago
>I'm surprised to hear this sentiment, but honestly I think there's a huge amount that the government does that is invisible to most citizens. It's invisible because it provides no true value to them. Right now you and I a

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