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That's misleading. If you factor in mining rewards, Bitcoin has much higher fees per transaction. A total of $18,000,000 more per day spent on validating Bitcoin transactions than …

From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered m…

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. A phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving …

"Aug. 30, 2015 8:54 am ET - The recent market rout caught some star Wall Street traders by surprise. But not a hedge-fund firm affiliated with “The Black Swan” author Nassim Nichol…

Since the dawn of time.

Social class divisions. Vaping is seen as lower class. Coffee has always been a white collar stimulant. Weed is becoming more upscale and thus more accepted. Meth and crack are for…

Recent interviews with Japanese activists on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrDAXjcUXY

I love peanut butter.

Best part of dropping Gmail is how snappy roundcube feels. I'm way more productive. The only thing I miss is being able to snooze emails.

Example: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/

One is unavoidable if you want to fly, the other is security theatre. It's reasonable to complain about policies which are ineffective even if the harm is small relative to other s…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming

It may not be obvious from the context and the limited excerpt, but in the book Sapiens, the author is careful to make the point that this is not an invitation to revert to the hun…

Hear hear, the agricultural revolution has trapped us in a Faustian bargain! "The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes. Just as the ec…

As a spammer, wouldn't it be trivial to just run a regex on email lists looking for that pattern and then harvesting the results? Or is this like the old joke where you don't have …

I can only speak for myself, but I find joy in living vicariously through others who don't contemplate existential issues. Sometimes I can spend a day just hanging out with my cat …

Post-solopsism? Fck me dude, I mean say want you will about nihilism, at least it doesn't attempt to invalidate the experience of qualia.

I think that's a fair point. I usually phrase it that way to avoid coming off too strong to people whose beliefs are unknown to me. So to sum up, we agree that the concept of free …

The quotes are there to indicate that the free will is there but only as a convenient abstraction. "The idea of the self over time [...] is the property of phenomenal selfhood that…

You can still experience "free will" without invalidating the materialist point of view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_model

Maybe they have a speech impediment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw