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The AMA is a leading reason that we don't have socialized medicine, though. They were one of the largest bodies that opposed single-payer for Obamacare.

weird given the origins of 'hacker'

You're misreading OP, they're not saying anything about law requiring Docusign, they're saying that Docusign has invested in meeting the law.

Mostly because these companies are very rarely letting people make an informed choice. Though, random homeopathic remedies in the store are far from the leading culprit for this.

Amusing, vaguely similar story about a company that made loans based on collateral related to a ships that were to be broken up, that completely ignored the ship vanishing from tracking for years: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/yieldstreet-...

I think this is a bit unfair, there's a real significant FTC upswell happening, but they're contending with decades of atrophy and an antitrust lobby that is extraordinarily powerful, not to mention the number of monopoly-friendly judges that are sitting in some of the most vital courts.

You realize they're not a business, right?

It was a joke.

Matt Levine's money stuff offered the hypothesis that it could just be normal gambling. But, it's almost definitely insider trading, and either way, someone will definitely be getting an SEC visit.

It's harder to prove consumer harm with something as abstract as IP addresses, and there's a bunch of other pieces that make this much less unlikely, such as the fact that USBs already become obsolete and need to be replaced, so you're just shifting the replacement cycle.

The announcement of the iPhone, presumably, to save people a google.

By and large leadership of engineering companies have been subsumed by finance heads. Boeing is the canonical example, but Intel also (and their attempts to course-correct haven't been super successful).

There are still sustainable, pay-to-play MUDs. No one should be surprised that Neopets has clung to life!

Does Peertube address all of the moderation / illegal content problems enumerated here, as they relate especially to video? https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

There's an entire follow-up video to this that points to errors in his original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6-eGDpimU&t=2223s

Quick google suggests that while more people use HMOs than PPOs, it's not a majority. My job offers both, but the HMOs are only available in a few states.

Wernher von Braun was a monster, and just one of the many that the United States willfully rehabilitated. Another great example is Franz Halder, who was effectively allowed to write the history of the war and significantly de-emphasized the military's involvement. 'Myth of the clean Wehrmacht' to learn more about that.

I'm interested in the mental gymnastics around how this kind of content manipulation is okay but the suggestion of inserting a suicide hotline at the top of search results around 'how to kill myself' was too political? https://kagifeedback.org/d/865-suicide-results-should-probab...

Yeah, Abbott is awful. This comment from someone who worked near Clark though suggests that he is not even capable of pretending to not be a complete piece of shit, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413442

Still, will be interesting to see two terrible out of touch people tear each other apart in the name of populism.

Dude was famous in his earlier career for being a giant narc and patrolling the warehouses for people to fire. Not sure he'd be anything but a ghoul given real power.

... This isn't about the game, it's about psychedelics, the drugs.

Nothing with the story, but the incorrect reference to 'Strip' came from the ChatGPT-generated answer Quora provides if you click on the question on their site. Which they seem to favor over an answer from the person who literally helped come up with the name...

The AI generated answer in full (which the article apparently linked to when the first OP here responded):

Stripe, the company that provides a suite of payment APIs and tools, was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison. The company's name is said to have been inspired by the word "strip," a reference to the simplicity and elegance of the company's platform, which "strips away" the complexity of traditional payment systems. Additionally, the company's logo features a stylized blue and white stripe, which also contributes to the name.

This is apparently a myth, and the Nova sold just fine in Spanish speaking countries.

Not to mention the bizarre comic book that the CEO paid for that was basically an insane dystopian vision of schools filled with taser drones and replacing warfare with kidnap-bots...

Because the LARPing is why most security professionals do the job.

It was a bad faith question, much like your own.

You've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too many times, and taken away the wrong lessons.

There's a recurring myth, very prevalent in the US, that credit card companies would prefer people who pay off their bills every month as cheap margin versus being predatory. It's bizarre, and as you've pointed out, completely unsupported by how they actually make their money.

Fosta/Sesta 'accomplished' its goal, which was to kill a bunch of websites and further tighten speech on the internet.

Are you sure you didn't just watch Contagion and get confused? I do not recall anything of this sort, in fact until March 2020, no one thought Covid was anything serious as far as I can really remember.

I recall most people believing my employer over-reacted when they shut down the offices. I don't think people would have felt this way if what you were describing had been a thing.