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You are missing the point, the SEC is not after Ripple because of centralization. They are going to sue Ripple because of the ICO. So in this case, Ethereum will probably also be c…

All altcoins have similar use cases. For the SEC, it's not the use case, it's about whether coins were sold in ICO-like deals. Stellar didn't promote any ICOs. Coins like Ethereum …

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So explain the never ending cases of batteries catching fire. This is actually a big scandal, shows that the NHTSA has an agenda and no credibility at all.

Modern direct fuel injection systems today can compress fuel at almost 30,000psi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_rail ), so 10,000psi is nothing. Hydrogen is much safer than…

Clicking feedback is very bad, sometimes it's instantaneous, other times it takes a couple of seconds that makes me unsure whether I actually clicked. Product pages loads fast but …

Try using the Facebook ads and Google Adwords interface for more than one week. Those are the worst interface I've ever seen. Slow and disfunctional, every click you get a spinner,…

Owning slaves was also "legal" some point in time.

It's not about entitlement, it's not about wanting something for free as some other replies are trying to justify this kind of practice. It's about how offering something for free …

It's not about accepting or not accepting paying to view videos. It's about how Youtube decimated competition and now the user cannot choose another pricing option and is left with…

If someone gives people free beer while driving out competitors or preventing potential competitors form starting a business, then it's dumping. No company should be entitled to de…

> Most Italian pizza has rather little cheese. Not true, authentic neapoletan pizza is marinara(no cheese) or margheritta (lots of cheese).

> All of these businesses operate on less than 180 miles round trips per day typically inside the US. In Europe distances tend to be even shorter. Yes but you are referring to the …

Dot-koh-doh-tenz

Anything you can do with fiat currencies, you can do with crypto. It's going to be huge.

People always criticize MySQL, then when asked what is the problem, they always mention the same thing about column length, which is just a default that can easily be changed and i…

Your example is outdated, MySQL doesn't truncate by default in later versions. Defaults can easily be changed. Choosing one database over another because of defaults is not a good …

> What is that thing? Blockchain brilliantly solves one and only problem, double spending. This single problem it solves enables the creation of true digital cash securely. > So an…

Blockchain was never intended to be a solution to several things, it was designed to be a solution to one thing and do it well. Scammers seized the oportunity to market blockchain …

Flamewar? Maybe you have an extremely low tolerance to anything remotely offensive. Amusingly just last week, people here on HN were bashing the Thai people for supposedly having l…

Your comment reminds me of the members of the Peoples Temple hehe.

Are you kidding? You need to see more of the outside world. Tesla has zero tech advantage on BEV. Go to China, every mom and pop factory can build a new BEV vehicle on a weekend. B…

Tesla didn't kill anything, electric battery technology is old and simple, any car maker can quickly switch to battery. In fact, battery vehicles are orders of magnitude easier to …