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Sure, there would be a black market for it, but that black market would be a lot smaller than the open market we have right now.

There’s plenty of legal ways of exchanging cryptocurrencies for real currencies, shutting those down would be a good start.

I understand and respect your decision to moderate my comment, and I’ll be more careful going forward.

But I would like to point out that a rule that allows someone to openly state they discriminate during interviews but forbids a strong reaction to that statement might require some examination.

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Here’s an idea, get rid of cryptocurrencies and the need for KYC basically vanishes.

Stop assuming. Strengthening connections doesn’t mean old men are killing themselves.

You do see how discriminatory your statement is right?

Replace “wearing a suit” with literally anything else unrelated to programming skills. Wearing a dress. Having a particular speech pattern. Being old.

As soon as you start judging people for anything other than their performance you fucked up. People’s personality comes through in the interview process. By the end of an hour working with someone you should have a pretty good idea of what working with them is like, suit or no suit.

This feels like such a narrow view of the world. Not necessarily discriminatory, but on the path to get there.

So what if a candidate wants to look good? How you feel about your looks affects your confidence, and you want to be confident in an interview.

And like, if a candidate came in with a well groomed beard would you think “he probably spends too much time on his beard, he must be a bad programmer”? I bet you don’t.

I’m not trying to criticize you too much, but this just feels antithetical to everything that tech stands for. You get judged on your merits, not on anything else. This way of thinking is how you create an environment hostile to women and minorities.

Our industry in north america is known for lots its egotistical slobs, but I thought that was changing.

Except that’s not in any way their motivation, so this is a completely unrelated comment.

Sure, they can leave, but if their companies want access to the US market they have to pay taxes. Capital flight is a red herring.

You still have to pay an exit tax if you give up citizenship. The tax man gets his cut.

Maybe the reason you haven’t heard about it is that you don’t know any billionaires?

That, and that the US is a tax haven for the super rich, so they have no reason to leave.

Sure, but crypto millionaires are acting like they’re billionaires.

The killer app is crime. Old scams have flourished. Entire new forms of scam have been invented. Crypto currency has been a game changer for criminal organizations.

Because we’ve already automated everything else. What’s left is work that’s done by specialists.

The entire pitch behind AI is that it can automate these jobs. If you can’t trust it, then AI is useless. Excluding art theft obviously.

Yeah but if your accountant bullshits when doing your taxes, you can sue them.

I’d argue you should read the docs and write code that works and you wouldn’t have any problems

If you try to build incompatible code and it doesn’t work, that’s not a bug

The Wrights were successful and influential, yes.

But they were not the first. Unless you cherry pick criteria to disqualify everyone else.

Which is what you’re doing.

If you postfacto cherry pick the criteria by which to credit the inventor of a plane then yes, the wright brother unequivocally invented the plane.

If ex NSA agents made a cyber security company and Baidu acquired it I think that would be relevant.

I think the point is that the Israeli government is akin to a terrorist organization

You chose to work in a toxic company, of course you had toxic managers.

I think security is within the purview of a browser. Even if I disagree with the implementation.

And AMP is not a browser feature.

According to me they haven’t. I can make a youtube channel too if that adds to my credibility.

HK and Xinjiang are already part of china. Tibet and Taiwan have historical ties. China has no expansionist ambitions, they just want what they perceive as theirs.

And like, idk if you know this, but the world bank and the IMF are the ones offering the predatory loans. Countries choose to work with China instead exactly because the terms of their loans are better than the western alternatives.

In a multi device world that makes sense though. If you save your passwords on your phone, you don’t want to lose them all if that phone breaks.

China had no intention to take over anywhere. They’re happy where they are.

What do browsers do that they weren’t meant to?

The only thing that comes to mind is password management. But I would also argue that’s a boon for normal users and trust in the web.

I agree with up that you have to take revenue into account as well. However, as an NPO Mozilla has no mandate to grow at all costs.

What’s the benefit of having Mozilla be this huge? How does it compare to the risk of shutting down if their revenue dries up, which is looking like a possibility?

People vote for a candidate’s vibes but they can change their minds if a better candidate comes along!