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There are numerous clips of Rabbis openly promoting the extermination of Palestinians. They use the story of Amalek from the Torah. One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when …

What's the true purpose of crypto? It can be used to escape the banking system?

Concerned about these R&D layoffs and startup closures. I love startups and cannot go back to the mind drudgery of corporate offices. Remote work changed my life for the better. Fe…

Looks like it from the Documentation. The User and Developer Guide references Atom quite a bit (includes the original Atom docs too) An aside, but I wish more webpages for applicat…

Now I believe Peter Zeihan when he says we'll likely enter an energy crisis that encompasses the majority of the world later this decade.

This is good advice. Learning lessons is not the same as wallowing and reliving the past.

Haha. I lost all my bitcoin stored on a personal wallet. Doesn't even have to be Mt. Gox

Lost half my money in Gold/Silver mining stocks. Broke at 30. Didn't start that businesses I wanted to in my 20s. Would had been in the same position financially by now anyway.

Yeah. Their idea was to reduce the population until you reach a number low enough that is viable for the ecosystem. The population would then be "maintained" at a stable level. Mos…

Surrogacy will be the next big thing. Women in poorer countries will birth the children for wealthier nations. This will aid in the reduction of family formation in poorer countrie…

The biggest problem with the ARC GPUs is the inconsistent frame times. Even with ReBar enabled, there's something wrong with the scheduler, firmware or driver. AMD and Nvidia have …

Cities would stop caring about new residents then (as they've done in Canada.) They mostly cater to the existing residents that own homes and partake in municipal voting. They'll s…

> A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering > Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, …

Intel spent tens of billions on stock buybacks and now they're getting subsidies to build fabs. Why does the middle class taxpayer have to bail everyone out, with lower living stan…

I'm going to be honest and likely argued with, but my standard of living has been falling for a long time. Even while my income has been steadily increasing. I've been in a recessi…

Some experience here as a 30 year old boomer. Unfortunately this makes market research difficult. Guess it depends on the audience you're trying to reach.

I'm the biggest gold bug ever. Been holding this awful asset for the last 12 years. This is the most manipulated, trash asset imaginable. The price of gold hasn't changed since 201…

Agreed. Bought a chromebook and made a distro that boots into neovim for this reason. It's fanless. Cost $45. Makes almost no heat after tweaking. Has a 12 hour battery life under …

My concern is that these unprofitable unicorn companies are employing highly competent and employable engineers that other companies will want to hire. This will cascade, causing s…

Half the population has low to no income. Manufacturing was gutted and sent overseas in an effort to integrate China into the world order. Russia exports way more resources and has…

Lost me at wages keeping up with inflation. In Canada (unrelated to article, but similar.) I'd need a 16% raise to keep pace with inflation. Since 52% tax bracket. Meanwhile homeow…