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trophycase··on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident
Maybe you're right, but everyone loves to feel all good and fuzzy inside when they make PC character design (see Overwatch) to cater to the reddit crowd. So if people are allowed to celebrate their obvious co-opting of identity politics, maybe we can be angry when they do something politically idiotic.
trophycase··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
Air striking the people would be just the beginning, not the end
trophycase··on Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists
Just pay more. I can guarantee you there are plenty of software engineers currently coding dark patterns and rigging Candy Crush or what have you that would prefer to work for the government if they paid competitively.
trophycase··on End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
As a millenial I don't feel this way at all. Reads more like an ad hoc justification than anything
trophycase··on Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari
Google makes almost all of their money through ads...
trophycase··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
Nearly all of human history people were having sex, getting married, and having children while still being considered minors in the US today. Please let's not be ridiculous here.
trophycase··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
Are sexually mature underage people prepubescent children now? It's ridiculous that people continue to willfully conflate the two just because they want to continue to have the moral high ground.
trophycase··on France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
Facebook is an addictive social reinforcement casino first, communication platform second. Though I don't disagree with you. I think banning it is too far.
trophycase··on France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
"What a bizarre statement"

"Inflation, and the ability of the state to force it upon its citizenry by forbidding the use private money - has come to be viewed as inherent to the sovereignty of nations"

So it isn't a bizarre statment then since you're pretty much agreeing with it. Maybe you only think it's bizarre because you don't like that nations accept that they have and want this power?

trophycase··on For Children With Peanut Allergies, F.D.A. Experts Recommend a New Treatment
Soooo, kind of like homeopathy?
trophycase··on The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
The point is that the body adapts to burn more or fewer calories depending on how much you eat. Restricting calories can possibly have the side effect of just lowering your metabolism, rather than just losing weight.
trophycase··on How is the internet still obsessed with Myers-Briggs?
Considering you know enough to know about the cognitive stack (more than most who take those awful online quizzes), you also should know that INFP and INFJ aren't close at all. It's a complete mirror of the entire stack :)
trophycase··on Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail
Do these calculations also include things like mandatory parking minimums, parking lots, etc? IMO the big problem with cars is how they ruin city layout and are generally poor for land use
trophycase··on IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business
Where does the remaining 0.1% go then 0.o?
trophycase··on World's largest urban farm to open on a Paris rooftop
I think the benefit of rooftop gardens is taking what is essentially "wasted" space (where I live most rooftops go completely unused) and repurposing it into something productive.
trophycase··on Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
I do this all the time. What year did this album come out? Search the name of the album and the year comes up in the sidebar. How old is this celebrity? Search the name of that celebrity and their age comes up in the snippet on the side.
trophycase··on How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query
Another common one is posting a story where they clearly aren't the asshole to get positive reinforcement from the comments and votes.
trophycase··on Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free
Please please do this in the US too.
trophycase··on Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades
If you're holding for a pension, wouldn't a wider spread affect you less than any single other market participant? Like a 1 cent different due to spread isn't going to matter in 30 years?
trophycase··on Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
Don't ask lol
trophycase··on Lyft releases self-driving research dataset
Slightly tangential but might this be another argument for people "owning" their data while companies "own" the processing procedures of it. If people "owned" their data it would presumably be much easier for them to give it out for research purposes
trophycase··on Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism
It ironically almost proves their point
trophycase··on Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
Yes I've theorized humans are evolving to be eusocial before our eyes. Essentially the "knowledge" is being transferred into the structure of the system itself rather than dispersed amongst humans.
trophycase··on Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
"Loaned USDT" in this context just means created tether and gave it before the wire transfers went through (but presumably these pending wire transfers count as assets, especially considering they can blacklist tokens at will). Not exactly damning evidence.

Also it seems like "illegally traded" just means that NY companies set up foreign shell companies to skirt NY regulations? I don't see how this is iFinex's fault either tbh

trophycase··on Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
Not OP and not a Circle employee but he is absolutely right if, especially if you are a US citizen.
trophycase··on Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
Far more to do with the decreasing costs of automation than minimum wage. These jobs will be automated, depressing wages only delays the inevitable.
trophycase··on San Francisco school board votes to destroy murals by Victor Arnautoff
Busybodies with nothing better to do
trophycase··on White House weighs encryption crackdown
Talk to any middle age surbanite who is scared of their own shadow. They'll give up anything to stop the boogeymen of drugs, terrorists, pedophiles, etc
trophycase··on White House weighs encryption crackdown
IMO this points more to having probable cause than actually criminalizing encryption itself. If privacy or hiding something by itself is probable cause you can essentially justify any form of search.
trophycase··on White House weighs encryption crackdown
The ability to hide things has reached unprecented levels?
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