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> I'm not sure how that demonstrates QAnon members are not generally trapped in right-wing echo chambers. Are yoga practitioners exempt from right-wing echo chambers? I suppose a s…

> I believe it is reasonable to speculate that QAnon members are generally trapped in extreme, right-wing echo chambers. Echo chambers enable people to retain undeserved credibilit…

> How long would it take you to establish enough credibility to be able to make an accusation like that and have people actually take your word for it? Keep this in mind: Q is lite…

> misinformation is combat with MORE discussion, not less! The problem with that idea is that it takes more effort to debunk a lie than to tell one. It also takes more effort to ab…

> It's political censorship disguised at fact checking. If they were really concerned about "fake news", they would apply the same standards to the other side. Remember how just a …

But if there are 34 billion tethers, $18 million is like a rounding error.

The difficulty is that so much infrastructure has been built around the assumption of car use, and that will be very expensive and take a long time to redesign and replace.

> Surely there must a technical trail to investigate. The probably is, but I'm guessing the really definitive records would probably require a subpoena to obtain (e.g. business rec…

> It‘s a pretty strong case for Len to be Satoshi, admittedly. And it would explain the mysterious silence from Satoshi Nakamoto - he's dead. I think it's pretty likely that the pe…

Were there any scientific utility to these payloads, or were they added in order to create some spacecraft porn? How much did the equipment for this weigh? IIRC, a downward facing …

> Per their press conference today, in the Q&A section. https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025 What was the model? The recording was garbled, and all I could hear was "...we're using …

> Griddy is simply an energy provider you can choose to hedge your bets and save money if you are smart. Plenty of people using it shut off their power or switched providers when t…

> This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's …

> That's kind of what I'm saying. Rich people making their own dream cities is probably as old as rich people and cities. Ig I could see an explosion of home automation tech giving…

> They dont really seem too, though. Theres a lot of examples of rich people building towns even in these comments. Is there any evidence tech moguls do it any more frequently? The…

> What a strange thing to pin on tech. Company towns have existed forever, to the point of having laws made about how they can function. The idea of building a utopian city doesn't…

>> No. It's time to push back on Bitcoin. >> It is disgraceful to watch people such as Elon Musk and most of the VCs put money ahead of the environment. > I am sorry you did not bu…

> Agreed. Surprised there are so many Bitcoin lovers on HN and in the startup scene, which is supposed to consist of smarter-than-average people. Bitcoin is basically shitty gold, …

> The argument for gold is that it isn't 100% a speculative investment. According to Wikipedia( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ) 50% of gold's use case is in making jewelry and…

> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin; they can just continue to let it exist and tax all the Bitcoin miners in China, generating revenue for themselves and their citize…

> Life will be so much better after we erase our history so we can repeat it. So you're saying the way to prevent a repeat of the holocaust is to setup awards and honors in the nam…

> It's interesting if you want to support 50B people on Earth, but the resources required to build it out mean it isn't really even a viable solution for restoring farmland to wild…

> I'm surprised there aren't more independent apps geared towards maximizing earning for drivers. Like it can't be that hard to create an artificial surge price if there's enough c…

> - They are loud That really depends. This one seems pretty quiet: https://youtu.be/rGM8Y6yal-8?t=337 , but buckling spring keyboards are obnoxiously loud (IIRC from my childhood)…

> IID/BAIIDs that gets installed in vehicles are often installed to protect other peoples life, not your own. Yeah, but that's just an example. If you were about to make a suicide …