djillionsmix

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by djillionsmix 4y ago
Nonwhite races have plenty of power.
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
>I'm talking about the government's ability to collect information about conversations you had 10 years ago after a suspected crime which occurred, say, last week. You know that people used to put a lot of their conversations o
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
>You do realize the Freedom of Speech was literally created to enable political dissent that used to involve criminal acts? key word: used to. The people, via the vehicle of the government, collectively decided to make those acts legal,
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Is there some reason why the government wouldn't be able to license the use of unadulterated crypto for purposes it doesn't give a shit about, like you transmitting your credit card number to online retailers, while mandating some
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
>These are new powers that the government started to acquire Why do people here persistently insist, even after being corrected, that the government's 228 year old authority to conduct warranted search and seizure is some kind of sh
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
>The government is demanding new powers: the power to search our communications This is an embarrassingly bad opinion and it's embarrassing for HN that it's at the top of the thread. The constitution does not require a rewrite
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
>U.S. government's behavior up to this point indicate it's a power grab for a tool of control The US government wanting to enforce warrants is not a power grab. Crypto is an infringement on the existing, 100% constitutional pow
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Nothing you've said is an argument against anything that I said. If you think that it is, then you think I've said something I haven't said.
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Freedom of speech isn't the freedom to commit criminal acts, though. In a very real sense, crypto is such a freedom. I don't think that's something that governments can accept, in the long term.
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Because the government correctly perceives unbreakable crypto as an assault on its sovereignty. Sovereignty is the principle that the government can do whatever it decides to do. Stuff like the 10A doesn't infringe on sovereignty becau
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
I'm not sure why San Francisco being an enormously popular place that lots of people want to live in is a reason why we need to raze San Francisco and build something else there instead, vs. and not a reason why we shouldn't go to
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Yeah I think the best lesson to take from the parable is to keep the ego and corresponding negative emotions out of it. There's nothing really wrong with what he told the guy (at least, what he says he told the guy), it's just tha
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
Heaven forbid we judge viewpoints on their merits and not on the identity of the speaker.
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by djillionsmix 11y ago
More like a recognition of the concept as demonstrated and practiced.
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by djillionsmix 12y ago
>The only people who should be afraid are the ones who make money by not contributing. Should be? sure. Are? No, those people are mostly at the top of the economy.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
"A generation ago" was gen x, which isn't the group that anyone thought was economically mobile. If they're not going to include the boomers this is sort of a stupid waste of time.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
>These are brilliant, fun, unflappable women Unflappable except supposedly they literally can't read this website out of the inescapable fear that someone will make a pun about man pages, and then someone else will be unimpressed wi
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
Sounds like Patty McCord's been following this guide to a T.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
You know who talked a lot about being A players who only hire A players? The Bush administration.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
As long as there's an asshole looking for an excuse to be an asshole they'll keep reinventing the same stupid shit.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
>But, the main definition of "A-Players" seems to be people that will overwork themselves for the company It's really not even anything that consistent. The definition of "A Players" is "whoever management i
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
No it doesn't
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
You mean like the property of being people's health data?
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
>Never saw the issue with YouTube comments. Always was much ado about nothing. So people were immature - it's funny. So people were insulting - grow up, they're having fun. It's a splinter/beam problem: the flaws in a
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
oh gosh 4chan talked some shit about us, we better all change our behavior now to meet 4chan's standards
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
Annoying to people who don't like that he's correct
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
In casual conversation many people would describe advil as harmless
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
This will continue because the tendency to make excuses for it is directly proportionate to the ability to do anything about it, same as with most/all social ills.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
I don't know how someone types up the 1000th iteration of this article with no acknowledgement of the 999 times people have written it before now or of any of the responses or counterarguments anyone has made in response.
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by djillionsmix 13y ago
Four or five times a year someone floats this eternally stupid idea for the Exciting New Car Tax!!! and the answer to why the hell people would ever accept this, but not a gas tax increase, is always mumble mumble mumble "hey, look o

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