CryptoFascist

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Comment · 9 years ago
A lame joke-quote that tells you more about the person saying it than about the person referenced in it.
Comment · 9 years ago
> The only reason dogs are domesticated is because we've been inbreeding their species for thousands of years and they literally can no longer live in nature because of how we've bred them.

This is false. The accepted mechanism is that wolves self-domesticated, and that humans and dogs co-evolved.

You have also misused the word 'children'.

Comment · 9 years ago
Can confirm. I bought a car last week in California with cash. Dealer did a credit check.

The system is rotten and (short of moving country) impossible to avoid.

Comment · 9 years ago
The idea that competitive pressure improves school performance is one of those simple, obvious, and wrong Econ 101 ideas.
Comment · 9 years ago
Explicit prejudice against whites is accepted in the Bay Area, and many Bay Area companies.

Downvotes, eh? The article itself contains a complaint about "seeing more affluent white people come into neighbourhoods".

Comment · 9 years ago
So how long until SF and the Bay Area's anti-development, anti-improvement ethos causes some other place (Austin/Denver)? to replace Silicon Valley.

For me, I'm only here for the money I get to keep after expenses. Once somewhere else matches that and without the crazy whining about gentrification and privilege, and the extreme NIMBYism, I'm gone. I suspect the same is true for many others.

Comment · 9 years ago
Simple. Express in your will that you wish your social media account credentials to be posted to 4chan, or whatever the equivalent of the day is, with instructions to 'have at it, jerks'.

That way, your online identity gets to be like Jim Morrison's grave.

Comment · 9 years ago
Click throughs aren't necessary for advertising to work. A lot of it is to prime your subconscious, or strengthen associations. This is why Coca Cola doesn't care if you click through. Same with car companies. When most Americans think of soda, they think of coke. If you prime their subconscious to associate soda positively with thirst, and soda is similarly associated with Coke, you've got them.
Comment · 9 years ago
One of these things is not like the other.
Comment · 9 years ago
I keep seeing the fallacy that all currency value is based on future expectations.

Here's a thought experiment... in the US, work full time while getting paid in Bitcoin. Make all transactions in Bitcoin. At the end of the year you'll need to file a tax return. Your final options are: 1. Buy some USD to pay your taxes. 2. Go to jail.

Demand for fiat currencies is ultimately underpinned by them being the only instrument accepted for payment of taxes.

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