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Comment · 2 years ago
So, a weld instead of solder!
Comment · 2 years ago
One would have to assume that it's a combination of both.
Comment · 2 years ago
One way of understanding the previous comment in light of what you've said is: the third-party doctrine is so obviously wrong it's sickening.
Comment · 2 years ago
My money's on Hal Finney.
Comment · 2 years ago
No. Instead, I'm going to be excellent to my fellow people. I'm not going to sink to their level.
Comment · 2 years ago
Somewhere, the NFL is quickly checking its shoes...
Comment · 2 years ago
Investigative journalism, I'd wager.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's no more ironic than a basketball player who just increased his score by putting a ball through a hoop trying to prevent his opponent from doing the same.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why not?
Comment · 3 years ago
No, it's great! That way when something terrible happens, it's not VW's fault.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think you've made a mistake. Their comment was not meant to be understood literally. Their intended meaning was obvious to me.
Comment · 3 years ago
>What are the new revenue channels that will pay for all that extra staff (and considering it’s USPS, their pensions)?

The federal government, unlike most other entities, does not need to match new revenue to new spending. It can and does create new money for any spending it deems worth it.

Funding basic banking for all through the USPS is worth it.

Comment · 3 years ago
>but because the mechanism by which they were generated would result in whole large classes of broken curves that academic cryptography and mathematics would have caught by now

Might such discoveries by academics be forcibly suppressed by government agencies?

Comment · 3 years ago
I absolutely loved the ending of _Fall_. I literally sat in my truck with tears streaming down my face for five minutes. To each their own, I suppose.
Comment · 3 years ago
We need a public lobby.

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