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Comment #49253428
The statement “These are child safety laws” premises that the laws would save children - so the way to refute is to ask for proof. Outside of vaccines I doubt there is anything con…
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Comment #49212418
If only I could pay my bills with thumbs up emojis. I can even double my offering from one to two!
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Comment #49206450
Aren't they (where they = tech CEOs, at least) all?
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Comment #49203629
“oscyloscops” is a way better spelling I gotta say.
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Comment #49174244
> You're obliged to maximize their earnings. Sometimes I think it’s time to give shareholder supremacy a rest. If they don’t like what they own, they can sell it. But this is proba…
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Comment #49111126
The word comment can be both a verb and a noun though. Are we pedantic enough yet? (:
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Comment #49084521
What? How do you marry a state?
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Comment #49084469
I certainly get to say what is and isn’t acceptable for me. I also don’t get to say what is and isn’t acceptable for others. Don’t understand why your tone is so accusatory.
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Comment #49008067
A lot of the big companies are massively allergic to building infrastructure, even when they get government grants to do it. Look at how badly the broadband rollout was bungled. Sh…
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Comment #49007980
I’m a little confused by the fees. In their pricing page ( https://opennode.com/pricing ) it says: You request $100, the customer pays 0.00152 BTC, and then you get $99. But 0.0015…
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Comment #49007853
The ouroboros circle seems infinitesimally closer to completion
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Comment #49007837
America is so massive, these trillion dollar companies can surely build these out in the boonies with very few people around? ETA: I would rather no data centers be built, but my p…
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Comment #49007692
Not at my workplace, the highest as far as I know is two levels below the CEO, usually a VP of some kind.
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Comment #48993158
Can’t really spy / collect data if they’re expensive
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Comment #48897183
Haha I appreciate your offer for checking but this was like a decade ago. I figured the teenagers working that shop had no idea! And agreed on being the dinosaur :)
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Comment #48883040
Funny story… I was on a trip to Europe (Poland) using my US credit card that didn’t have tap to pay or chip and pin (I believe it was swipe only) and the store literally did not ha…
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Comment #48875864
It’s extremely good, at least in terms of user experience and how practical it is. Adoption is massive and at small chai shops it makes transactions a breeze, allowing businesses t…
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Comment #48873916
> And there was a lot of billboards in front of these manufacturers' shops. And when they uncovered, we could see through the window a lot of Bolivian people like sleeping and work…
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Comment #48794811
> I suppose trillion-dollar companies aren’t as willing to take risks. Which to me makes no sense, surely you have some budget for risks if you are a 1T company? I suppose their ri…
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Comment #48720910
Presumably at the time of sale they had rights to it. They lost it later, but should have at least had secured rights to people who bought the damn thing.
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Comment #48720886
Steam is probably the best example of how you can be a middleman and a store. I’ve never felt wronged by them unlike Sony and Discovery.
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Comment #48640965
Turns out that I was really out of my depth when it comes to ins and outs of a car at the chassis level. I also realized that if I can’t toy with it in my free time then I’m not go…
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Comment #48636074
> I closed my linkedin, and I went to go work in the trades as a diesel mechanic. Love it! A score of years ago, I considered being an auto mechanic after graduating HS but then en…
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Comment #48632695
Free market doesn’t mean no regulations / rules / laws / protections. Of course all rentals are on a free market.