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Comment · 3 years ago
> that it can somehow "escape" the legal frameworks of human beings

And yet multibillion dollar companies whose entire business is illegally running hotels or taxis get nowhere near the vitriol?

Airbnb clearly causes harm for locals in popular tourist cities.

Comment · 3 years ago
Congress has no electoral mandate to lower inflation, that's not their job.

Using fiscal policy for inflation targeting is crude and horrendously slow.

Comment · 3 years ago
Really? It seems quite inferior to the one posted and lacking a lot of substance.
Comment · 3 years ago
No mention of CATL releasing sodium based batteries this year? Just their dropping of lithium battery prices?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
*likely US based medical advice

A sleep test is $100 ($75 USD) here.

Comment · 3 years ago
> attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge

Handshake reserved the top 100,000 Alexa domains and allowed all trademark name holders to claim theirs.

Not to mention the ten million in FOSS grants for developers to build tooling

Sadly the ideologues will somehow decry their attempts for an alternative while defending the indefensible ICAAN.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ever considered that the related threads comment is easily scripted?
Comment · 3 years ago
> most bluffs beat her hand

That has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of bluffing. The hand is irrelevant.

Comment · 3 years ago
Could I recommend a table of contents?

It looks great, bookmarked.

Comment · 3 years ago
What happens when you fail to pay back loans to western companies? "oh no worries, we'll just write it off and you keep all your assets"?

This handwringing on stuff like this is fairly transparent.

Comment · 3 years ago
Owning a car made after 2006 isn't some massive ask, you'll probably find people driving such cars to use public transport far more often anyway.
Comment · 3 years ago
What do you think the average response was in the West to covid protests last year?

Here in Australia the public and media overwhelmingly despised anyone protesting despite having some of the harshest covid restrictions on Earth.

Comment · 3 years ago
On the how to avoid section: Isn't running comments through a randomised translator a few times then back considered a countermeasure also?

Also think it's probably poor form to list users as examples without their permission.

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