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Its not about stopping brainless botnets from actually logging in with root:toor 9 million times, its about removing clutter from your logs so you can more easily tell when something actually dangerous is happening.

Nobody is talking about excluding Thiel from investing in Saudi Arabia, or forfeiting his right to safety or privacy.

What is being questioned here is the narrative that Gawker put him in any kind of serious risk wrt Saudi Arabia, or that his actions against Gawker were taken in defense of gay people's privacy.

He obviously doesn't care much about the rights of gay people, or have many personal safety concerns if he's investing massive amounts into one of the most gay-oppressive regimes on earth, yet he gets a full pass here from you, and Gawker deserved to be destroyed as a company.

Why?

I assure you Saudi Arabia is a much bigger "bully" to gay people than Gawker ever was, yet Thiel has no problem enabling it, and you apparently have no problem with him doing so either.

Its a ridiculous double standard.

Where is all the concern involving the fact that Peter Thiel was investing in a regime where there is a death penalty for being gay in the first place, why does that get a pass and all the concern falls on his supposed personal safety.

This argument isn't about the fact that Saudi Arabia is ridiculously oppressive to gay people, it is about scoring points to make Peter Thiel look better.

They also remove almost all the supposed decentralization and trustless model benefits of bitcoin

I very much doubt close to 100% of companies have issued apologies to china

Plenty of countries that have simple majoritarian systems, even on what the USA would consider constitutional issues haven't fallen to tyranny.

It is not a 25% population requirement, its a 5% one, that is, you only need 5% of voters to vote for your party in senate seats effective hold onto a majority proof veto.

The senate is fundamentally an anti-democratic rule-by-minority institution that represents land area over top of human beings.

Its as serious as a problem some other democracies and polities have faced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs

In the UK it almost caused a revolution, because it allowed the wealthy and corrupt to hold onto power, while denying representation to new cities with huge population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto

In the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth every senator held veto power, in practice this meant that an insane amount of corruption occurred (including senators being bought off by foreign nations), and it totally neutered their power as a state to fend of military rivals, and eventually ended up with the nation conquered.

The senate is in desperate need of reform, and is a key part of why democracy is failing in the USA.

Every new car has GPS tracking and cellular antennas in them and has for almost a decade.

So in other words, you believe that people protesting in the street deserve to die.

approximately nobody defines open source as "you can see the source but you aren't free to fork it or modify it"

This is not the conventional meaning of the term, and has repeatedly been used as an avenue to attack the concept in general.

As a comparison, how happy would you be calling a system where you can only vote for candidates approved by a single leader a "Democracy". Under these standards, both the USSR and China are democracies.

The differences matter, it is not pedantry and it is not some organization enforcing "their definition" overtop of what people "commonly think".

Better in what sense? Its extremely difficult to actually use cryptocurrency for selling things beyond cryptocurrency related instruments.

You need both your vendors and your customers to be able to easily transfer money in and out, and as things stand, that's an absolutely massive pain in the ass compared to using USD, and approximately nobody does it. But that is only the start of the problems, not factoring in things like wild exchange value swings, and huge gas/processing fees.

That says more about the profession of "Programmer" vs "Lawyer" than it does about some imagined hypocrisy.

its trivial to add, yet hasn't been added in almost 15 years, it is very much a title text search and nothing about this move indicates otherwise.

there is no economic interest from google to make ad free apps actually findable, and no chance somebody making a better play store is going to usurp their position.

you might even say most software is ruined by NOT having ads, I wish everything had even more ads, I say!

Apples CPU design is absolutely an APU, I advise knowing what the market actually looks like before constantly posting.

40 billion isn't much to sabotage the vast majority of your competitors

Huh? Apple doesn't own ARM either, and have a GPU with an ARM CPU, Nvidia has an architectural license just like Apple does.

And nvidia can keep making tegra, even without buying out ARM

the rising tide has stopped lifting all boats decades ago.

Its almost like different people have different opinions or something.

take a picture of it

Its not resulting in housing being built, its resulting in existing stock getting bought and flipped.

Its not hard to understand at all, they willingly screw over customers, just look at all the posters here falling all over themselves to excuse this blatantly shitty customer hostile behavior.

that still has nothing to do with consumer choice, and is entirely about revenue maximization for canon. It is not somehow magically enabling a greater degree of choice.

Intel similarly recorded record smashing profits while destroying its R&D and tons of its future potential, and AMD and ARM are now a very serious problem for them.

Its entirely possible to post a few years of crazy profits while tanking the company.

this sort of "choice" is essentially entirely meaningless, if camera features were software unlock based they could sell all cameras with all features for the lowest price and still make money, the only one benefiting here is canon extracting maximum value.

assuming you only travel to places with good internet and a nearby stadia server

not that I really disagree with your point, but orders of magnitude of distance are a poor measure of the kind of effort it takes to get places in space.

Almost all of the energy and effort is spent on getting things off of the earth to begin with, everything after that point is comparatively easy, especially if you are willing to take a long time doing it.

The major problem with a Mars mission is that the constraints of getting things into orbit are so oppressive, its hard to send enough supplies and equipment to orbit, due to the exponential explosion of the rocket equation.

works for intel

CAS latency is counted in cycles, ram speed has increased, the cycle count has increased, the absolute amount of time passing has not.