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afarah
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Comment #19834540
Citing Piketty? Duly ignored.
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Comment #19758491
Ignore it and let people be angry (at Google for not receiving their mail from various places). Meanwhile move to a decent service like ProtonMail.
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Comment #19743704
>large amounts of gold are leaving Africa with no taxes being paid to the states that produce them. The state does not produce the gold. Whatever the state produces it produces in …
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Comment #19732854
A larger government is the characteristic of the poorer countries in the graph
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Comment #19700970
They dared questioning the power of government.
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Comment #19672904
I know about colocation, but I was under the impression that once you see an order in the book it is in the book. I.e. your order will be placed after it.
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Comment #19672895
Leaving aside the environmental damage, which is obvious albeit somewhat sensationalized in this comment, how is said plastic actually harming human health today? The article from …
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Comment #19669751
>all about having high capacity pipes that can see an order come in I don't understand how they can see the order come in. Is this something that only happens in decentralized exch…
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Comment #19639457
Here in Brazil my experience has been the same: drivers use all apps. I just don't see how Uber can maintain said network on the long run and still be profitable, not something I'd…
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Comment #19558961
Of course they're creating value, Uber and the like is of great value for its users. The service is merely being subsidized by investors who believe in such practice. Is it a bad i…
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Comment #19384071
That would not solve anything, it would create a problem.
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Comment #19384005
It's the result of government interference everyone around here loves so much.
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Comment #18655762
> Reliable newspapers generally don't throw around anonymous government sources Huh...
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Comment #18573918
Such as with IP law.
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Comment #18518678
>clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts); IIRC this call has an overhead of a few ns. Isn't that close to or even higher than the time it takes to perform the action being measured on …