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My heart bleeds. Oh the humanity.

I think his point is that the market value of Bitcoin is driven by speculation on its future value rather than by productive activity, and that that would make the gains much less …

I kind of agree, but it seems crypto is only a hedge against incompetent/corrupt government insofar as 1. It can act as an actual alternative currency and 2. Those governments do n…

I would be motivated to do it. If you were a happy wordle player and also have a marginalized identity, it might suck to finally get the word right and see a slur against that iden…

Gotta say, Google's pioneering and Facebook's shamelessness in the personal information harvesting space has been, for me, the single most valuable feature of any website on the in…

So whether workers should be allowed to unionize should depend on which changes they are fighting for? Where's the line of powerlessness a union's beneficiaries need to be under in…

There's a long history here. The American labor movement secured a lot of those protections in the early and mid-20th century, and they were strong for several decades. It was a ha…

The idea that you shouldn't play music because psychologists say it won't make you smarter by some quantitative metric is so on-brand for this site.