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Probably less about whataboutism and more about retaliation. Not saying one actor would stop if another did, but still.

Probably the same reason why people may want to avoid lead, mercury in tuna or microplastics: Science is always trying to figure out the safe levels of consumption. Especially for something consumed your entire life starting as a fetus.

Ah, thank you.

Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?

You can probably make this argument for car/bike racing and tuning, fast food or a number of hobbies and "correlated" deaths. Luckily this restriction seems to be about weird stuff like bump stocks.

And as for the "Blumph!" comment, we still have yet to see Syria driven to the state of Libya so that's at least quite a few kids saved from getting shot right there.

Putting the "fascist!" comment aside, what alternatives are there than the threat of breaking from the EU if every legislation seems to* head toward a US style federation?

Think of it like the SOPA/PIPA/whatever fight: You manage to barely resist some bill from being enacted into law but then just a few months/years later another version of the same law is proposed.

*: from the perspective of someone

Every day we stray further from hyperlinked documents.

What are some relatively popular alternatives (that are not on the JVM)? Maybe the options are somewhat limited here if you want both to be functional.

Anyone else feel like [3-5] should be a bigger issue? Desertification is scary as hell already but this is even more immediate.

A bunch of people saw an A-list celebrity do a publicity stunt and wanted to have fun with it.

As far as the "Nazis!" claim goes you need to be able to read between the lines if you want to read an imageboard as trollish as 4chan. And if you want to see who really is behind the posts you can look up the first "He will not divide us" event at a New York museum. Spoiler alert: It's not nazis. ;)

Ha, reminds me of another comment on HN. Someone pointed out statistics of recent crime rates somewhere in Sweden and another said something along the lines of "But that's still on the level of a typical American city."

Absolutely love it when people are able to go against Change for the sake of change™.

Wasn't there also a programming language that was planning to hold an ICO?

Maybe ICOs truly are the new Kickstarter.

I would wager most people would think these are bots, especially when photos are used. Internet users are a little too accustomed to stock photos of happy company employees gathering and customer support smiling for the camera.

Then they want to see how the bot responds to stupid memes.

Mongo is truly the Javascript of databases. It's even made in JS!

Looks exactly like Sprite's offering right down to the scary 15 minute window you are expected to complete your Bitcoin transaction in, doesn't it?

Nursery school kids have access to knives, hot glue guns, splinters, etc.

Maybe this has something to do with the school getting into big trouble when something does happen. I mean we have all heard of legends of the cat and the microwave oven. I guess companies and organizations just get sued over ridiculous things in the US?

Has anyone had an iOS device lose battery really fast, only lasting for less than a day, until you reboot and everything is fine again?

Wouldn't self-signed certificates have even more and scarier warnings?

I think he meant a paywall, kind of like how some services don't waste their time offering free accounts and receiving tons of support requests.

Billy Gates also famously pondered charging a fee for sending email to reduce spam.

Not sure if this is just leftist propaganda calling everyone even mildly questioning mass immigration a nazi (I mean Sweden Democrats/AfD, really?) or Russian propaganda to justify reinvasion of these countries to save the Russian minority. Man, it's like everyone has an agenda these days and you shouldn't just upvote random unsubstantiated articles on the internet.

What if an internet service provider sells Internet subscriptions that are not backed by real bandwidth. If enough customers want to stream video the ISP will not be able to provide enough bandwidth for them.

Would you call that fraud?

Most people just want an OS that keeps working for their stuff with the occasional security update.

WSL development for bringing in programmers as new users is nice and a feature that stays out of the way, but Microsoft wants to bring in tablet/phone users.

Universal apps so far seem kind of stupid, as an example Paint 3D is a single window only app. Pretty bonkers but I guess the API doesn't support multiple instances.

Windows RT; Store apps only with Microsoft Office tablet version preloaded. Not sure what happened to it.

"What are you trying to tell me, that I can trade my bitcoin for millions someday?"

"No Neo, I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready... you won't have to."

- The Matrix (1999)

People just have different interests these days, and a lot more options to find like minded people to share them with.

There is no end to Federalist greed for power, is there...

romantic interest

Heh, I don't know about other STEM fields but I remember a lady attending a computer science freshman social event once. There were very few women there as the majority of women in CS are in HTI. After a while she said to my friend, "Why is everyone such a nerd."

She left the field, men were at fault.

Now we just need to figure out who pays for those upgrades. I think we could try a scheme where we keep growing the user base so more recent customers pay for the prior customers' upgrades.

Hmm, wait a minute...

Bitcoin in the name is the only thing that holds the value. Other currencies have noticed and are quickly naming themselves after Bitcoin, like ZClassic renaming to Bitcoin Private.

CNBC demonstrated "how easy it is" to buy Ripple via Poloniex exchange on television. They also often have a "Ripple watch" counter on the screen displaying current worth in dollars.

Also an article: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/how-to-buy-ripple.html