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by task_queue 11y ago
If you disagree with this practice, you're free to choose from one the competitors which engage in the same collection activities.
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by task_queue 11y ago
The people constructing the prisons also construct schools, hospitals and buildings that society needs. There isn't a lobby of people solely benefiting from the construction of prisons other than the owners that the prison is built for
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by task_queue 11y ago
I agree with your point about how the law drops the ball when it comes to rehabilitation. A real issue IS who owns or manages the prisons. If the profit motive is what drives prison expansion, then society will experience a form of regulato
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by task_queue 11y ago
As a someone looking for a payment processor, I now know that the only way we'd be lucky enough to receive support is if we wrote a Hacker News thread that made it to the front page. It's weird to find out this way, as I was procr
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by task_queue 11y ago
It's a new protocol that needs to be accepted on top of the blockchain with its own 3rd party sidechain, just like all the other proposed solutions that were never accepted by the community. Cool. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is still 7 TPS.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Why would the world shift from a currency that is economically and politically entrenched via trade and treaty? What would Bitcoin solve that the USD doesn't? Why would the world accept a technological "solution" whose implem
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by task_queue 11y ago
How are you twisting debt crises into a pitch for Bitcoin, the most centralized, 100% traceable and accountable crypto-currency on the net?
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by task_queue 11y ago
I want to live in the world where only 7 transaction can occur a second.
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by task_queue 11y ago
There are more people trying to get Mickey Mouse into the White House than there are competent people with realistic opinions about Bitcoin.
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by task_queue 11y ago
> Seems unlikely to be the full and absolute time line of events. Credit card processors do this all the time.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Context independent, having a store of usernames/ids/emails and plaintext passwords is Bad because it can be cross referenced with a store that actually matters.
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by task_queue 11y ago
A web browser built on a single thread, a web browser I'd like to use.
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by task_queue 11y ago
I[0] don't[1]? [2] [3] [4] [5] -- [0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/bla... [1] http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/05/27/blacks-leas... [2] h
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by task_queue 11y ago
No reason to sound all conspiracy theorist. It's happened in the past, the same drives that motivate "disappearances" haven't gone anywhere and we're a country with a recent history of disappearing people to black s
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by task_queue 11y ago
> extreme poverty, abuse, disability, This was me and, in America, I am still more privileged than a black person in my position when it comes to education, loans, work, law enforcement and discrimination in general.
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by task_queue 11y ago
A classic case of "the real racists are the ones who mention race." To address the real problems of continued systemic racism that existed from the founding of our country, we cannot simply put our race blinders on and pretend we&
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by task_queue 11y ago
AGPL says no such thing. AGPL software running on the backend must be made available upon request to users who are served content by it.
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by task_queue 11y ago
No it doesn't. Subsidies, social programs and massive regulations hold up our market for food.
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by task_queue 11y ago
That's great for pricing most commodities, but for necessities it is disastrous.
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by task_queue 11y ago
It's unacceptable to "mitigate risk enough" because laborers are motivated by the fact that they have needs and dependents' needs that have to be met. That is their motivation for working anywhere. They have no other re
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by task_queue 11y ago
You are knowingly and directly allowing a child slave driver to profit from your purchase. Where exactly do you absolve yourself of guilt in that transaction?
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by task_queue 11y ago
Let it be known that an entire continent's economy has been suffocated because of warning boxes on users' computer screens.
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by task_queue 11y ago
It's demonstrably incapable of nuance, you might want to get it checked out.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Most theft is fueled by desperation. Desperate people do desperate things for small, or often no gain. People are injured or killed all the time over possessions they may or may not have on them.
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by task_queue 11y ago
Oilsands were sold to the public as an avenue to create high paying jobs and to rejuvenate the economy. 800 high salary earners ($200k/yr avg) could be put out of work as their profession is eroded and the public is shut out of what wa
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Canada’s oilsands are paving the way for driverless trucks and threats of layoffs(calgaryherald.com)
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by task_queue 11y ago
Having been on both, SSRI withdrawal is terrible but benzo withdrawal is a miserable experience like nothing else. It's completely disabling.
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by task_queue 11y ago
That's a false narrative. Owners and executives are the winners here. We are underpaid for the value we bring in and the industry has been caught trying to keep it that way.
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by task_queue 11y ago
This is true. The "war crimes" angle makes it seem as if its for use against state-level actors waging war. In that case, compromising electronic communications has been a key strategy in disrupting organization and identifying ta
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by task_queue 11y ago
So far its primary distribution network is the Play Store. Most casual/uninformed users won't sideload an application if it's available through an app store.

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