ThePowerOfDirge

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by ThePowerOfDirge 3mo ago
Many of the most prominent American tech leaders these days are of Indian origin. The social stigma to tech is not present in Indian culture, which stems from India having been under British colonial rule and the accompanying de-industriali
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by ThePowerOfDirge 3mo ago
Cough up the dough, or away your files will go.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 6mo ago
They hardly pay taxes in the U.S. so they deserve no protection. In fact, I'd encourage Iran to attack them. You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No I will not protect you, ya gotta pay.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 7mo ago
Gambling = investing. Buying stocks is also gambling. Share buybacks, dividends, fancy words for forking money from workers to some joe schmoe that bought a lottery ticket, i.e., a stock.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 2y ago
It destroyed Bell Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/realestate/severance-lumo...
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by ThePowerOfDirge 2y ago
But DEI is what made JD Vance who he is today. To quote an article: "The truth is, if it was not for the Yellow Ribbon Program I would not be going to law school." https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/
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by ThePowerOfDirge 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk at 21:10
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by ThePowerOfDirge 4y ago
Agile had the scrummaster role. The authors of the Agile manifesto said that this role was supposed to rotate in the group of coders and eventually be phased out once the group got used to the process. The agile process in its final form ha
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by ThePowerOfDirge 4y ago
>We don't accept that kind of risk anymore in the US 3 years of coronavirus in the US seems to disagree with this statement
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by ThePowerOfDirge 4y ago
Seems like BITCOIN has crashed to very low values recently as well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harrypotterobamasonic10...
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
A super-inefficient personalized poison.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Seems like you have a very firm grasp of what can and cannot be done with a person's DNA.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
The artist always has the option to put the entire album into 1 track.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
You missspelled Baidu and CCP there.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
>Even when we get brain computer interfaces, I don't want to live in the embodied internet, because tactile sensation is a huge part of how we experience the world, and clicking a mouse feels better than making a finger gun in empty
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Considering that Italy will be hit hard by climate change, I find this a weird opinion to hold for an Italian. Last thing I heard there's no garbage pickup in the capital city in Rome, so these Ferrari companies must somehow forgot to
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
These "anecdotes" make my blood boil.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/microsoft-digitally-...
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Now we're talking.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Time to ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again!
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
The argument is let's ban cryptocurrency that'll stop ransomware, which doesn't hold true. All you need is a fake identity or corrupt banking system to siphon off the funds you stole with your ransomware.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
Identity theft and corruption help ransomware much more than cryptocurrency ever will.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 5y ago
I am technically person.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 6y ago
False, the difficulty bomb will kill off eth1.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 6y ago
Decentralized derivatives trading https://injectiveprotocol.com/
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by ThePowerOfDirge 6y ago
So many armchair scientists in this thread taking the hygiene hypothesis as gospel here.
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by ThePowerOfDirge 6y ago
How, without every government banning it, do you see bitcoin's value going to zero? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-feds-balance-sheet-the-...

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