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pylon
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Comment #42589103
Replace Hollywood/Disney with Twitch and nothing is different. You still need to get lucky to be famous on Twitch (or Youtube) for your distribution channel and have enough influen…
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Comment #40025397
Having 1000+ services seems like an overkill for an ecommerce company. I certainly hope they aren't doing something silly like a service for each payment type or a service to manag…
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Comment #36674184
2010-2012 Tumblr was truly a magical experience. It wasn't a social media for your real life friends or news, it was just a place for fandoms to share tons of gifs. And there was a…
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Comment #31935575
None of this sounds good for individual liberty. It just becomes an issue of are you lucky enough to live in a state that doesn't hate you
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Comment #31935551
And if the people choose to vote to limit individual liberty of others then this decision is still good for individual liberty?
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Comment #31934307
Making it easier for states to ban abortion is good for individual liberty?
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Comment #30433715
I never claimed the entire protest is illegal. I'm just trying to question the notion that in Canada when you protest and despite how disruptive you are, the Canadian police can't …
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Comment #30433303
Right so then let's continue the thought process. You are saying under Canadian laws, if a group of people are protesting, they can break whatever laws they want within the context…
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Comment #30433044
>The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our righ…
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Comment #30188328
For now yes, but I would say it's really meant as replacement for Instagram rather than Facebook. So videos only seems fine compared to a service that was primarily for pictures. T…
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Comment #29366424
I assume none of the existing regulations or laws that involve public companies apply to DAOs? Like can you pool the money and then do nothing or go against what was agreed upon?
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Comment #29361086
How is fraud handled in this case? Name and address is relatively easily accessible public info. Do they notify the person that there is an invoice against them before they ship th…
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Comment #29271694
Are there big issues with the current system that exists today to prove ownership of a property you bought? Is real estate fraud common enough? I never went through buying property…
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Comment #29271593
What problem was "real estate on the blockchain" trying to solve?
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Comment #29255789
Out of curiosity, is your customdomain in this case something without any personal info on it? I have a custom domain with my first name and last name initial .com, but now I'm thi…
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Comment #28031000
As a customer are there any downsides to using these BNPL platforms when I'm buying something? I generally never buy anything online that I can't afford to pay for it outright so I…
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Comment #27949459
I have trouble understanding how Clubhouse was supposed to grow like other social media apps. It doesn't have the traditional social network growth. If I meet someone at university…
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Comment #27707479
Wouldn't someone be able to reverse engineer the pattern? I assume everyone is doing some variation of so someone can try to figure out your other email addresses for other sites. …
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Comment #27504684
So I assume the things that are becoming free don't include using your own domain for mail? Will Google Workspace Individual include that? The TechCrunch article mentions it will b…
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Comment #27502921
Wait really? I thought my regular Google account is disconnected from a Google Workspace account? The email is just used for initial sign up. I'm really glad I didn't try signing u…
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Comment #27478174
In addition to what you listed, I would have liked to see something about Apple not getting special rules when it comes to their own apps. For example Spotify does not have to pay …
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Comment #27315083
Is there any pressure in Finland to make this illegal? If your transaction didn't go through the digital authentication to verify identity, then it's worthless and the money can't …
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Comment #27310511
This is one of the reasons I wish governments in the world implement proper digital authentication instead of relying on static identifiers like name, address, or SSN.
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Comment #27265183
I managed to buy firstname.dev a while ago and this was one of my fears of using it as my email address. I ended up switching to a .com one just to avoid any issues. I certainly do…
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Comment #27265123
Out of curiosity, are those popular services? I'm in process of setting up email on my own domain and it would suck having to fallback to Gmail if some service uses an accepted lis…