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The ones that continue to operate are presumably in this bucket.
I also wonder if some large sub mods specifically use the API in order to carefully run their voting bot farms - but I'm not accusing anyone here.
If the city cannot provide basic safety for its citizens, then corporations WILL leave, and salaried residents will follow them.
This just isn't going to fly. I have literally hundreds of subscribed subs on Reddit - I'm not going to a different site for each.
So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions?
This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.
It causes irrational behaviors.
While crypto was growing and experimenting and not causing great harm, the regulators were happy to let it do its thing.
The moment major losses occurred due to large scale fraud collapses, THAT is when the regulators decided to pay more attention and look for rules that might be getting broken.
Moreover, with the increased use of crypto by nation states such as North Korea, Russia, Iran, Hamas, etc... to evade sanctions and launder money, and the general lack of any material crypto economy, then parts of the gov't, in general, are starting to think the show needs to end for crypto - and are talking to regulators to shut down exchanges.
That is why there are no "productive conversations" between Coinbase and regulators. The regulators don't want to give them any valid methods of operating - because they NOW don't want them to operate at all.
The strongest and most accurate evidence for global climate change are GLOBAL indicators, such as sea level rise, global average temperatures, etc...
Every weather event you list, can probably be countered with a mild weather event somewhere else. It's mock science, and it's the most obvious sign of hyperbole.
Was the dog toy a joke? Making a joke out of something popular is an allowed exception to trademark.
The ruling seems to say that it wasn't a joke and therefore not covered under the exception.
I get both sides of the argument. A physical product you're selling that has a clear non-parody purpose should have a higher bar to be regarded as parody.
A more difficult example might be a t-shirt with a Google logo on it that has something "funny" about Google written below.
Russia saw Ukraine as militarily weak, but in control over strategic territory that it wanted to capture.
It's a simple calculus - no amount of talking would have prevented this war.
This is not evidence-based thinking and leads to heavy biases.
The model is that as users become more comfortable on the site, they eventually browse to the more dangerous categories and download programs/games/cracks/etc...
I wrote a blog post about a deep dive I did on one site, and showed that the admins were seeding malware in program downloads.
Suffice to say, when I reported the admins, other admins banned my account on the site and IP blocked me.
I actually ended up taking the blog post down because they started attacking my domain, and even Google blacklisted my domain because I had snippets of the malware code posted (I guess I should have used images instead of code). I was younger and just tinkering with security research anyway.