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Comment · 5 years ago
It's disengenuous to make that argument without a comparison to the full manifold energy consumption required to support fiat cash... (including things like burning gasoline and jet fuel to move paper and metal for shredding/melting.)
Comment · 5 years ago
>> Don't the vast majority of companies have clauses in contracts that say whatever you create on your particular work laptop belongs to the company? I certainly have that in my contract.

What do you think the chances are of your company actually being able to enforce said clauses?

Comment · 5 years ago
If the SEC had done their job RH would have been shut down ages ago due to their platform's facilitation of rampant identity theft.
Comment · 5 years ago
>> it will likely end with ordinary people being really cynical about the motives of big tech, the financial services industry, the media, and the ruling class generally.

That's how things were from the 70s up until the internet boom.

It's going to take another paradim shift before the cynicism errodes.

Comment · 5 years ago
The accounts were more likely blocked from a sell.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think the proper analogy is a bookstore whose titles rearrange themselves on the shelves based on your liminal reactions to the covers.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's nothing efficient or concrete about psychology.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've been advised by my lawyers to avoid your software.
Comment · 5 years ago
Great ideas, and a road paved with good intentions.

A lot of people have been down this road before, and it doesn't end well for the users.

At least your lawyers are happy.

Comment · 5 years ago
Please answer the above questions.
Comment · 5 years ago
>> No one had firearms at the capital, at least so far as I’m aware of.

>> I haven’t picked anything up like all 50 states protesting. A few surely, but idk not some crazy coordination or anything (honestly seems more from the left).

You're wrong about this, and you probably shouldn't be bragging about your platform or credentials if you're this ignorant of what is going on.

Comment · 5 years ago
One can not appease bad faith actors without being taken advantage of.
Comment · 5 years ago
Zeitgeist is not coordinated.
Comment · 5 years ago
One could argue that the pinnacle of Orewllian authoritarinism is indeed the use of Orwell by an authoritarian regime. Doublespeak and all...

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