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Takes the prize for stating the blindingly obvious.


It's an ad platform. I read 2 pages and saw no information, but did see embedded ad links, etc


Interesting watching Reddit self-destruct.


Quite terrifying really, there's so much information would be lost if this goes through.

Appending "Reddit" to a search can turn the search results from hot garbage (search for anything "best <product>" and you'll get an infinite list of articles recommending stuff with no information beyond what you'll find on the product page itself) into actual infornation


> how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

And water is wet .. same with so-called social media with their endless likes and friends. Addiction machines by any other name.

Could I have another down-vote please /s


> This topic was posted earlier today but was seemingly killed..

I don't like you cause you contradicted me the last time, therefore I'm going to mod you into oblivion :]


It's understandable why these were modded into invisibility ;) --

@nancyhn: “The banking industry is a fraudster's paradise. The difference is they don't get arrested, they get bailed out with bonuses. It seems there are a lot of short memories here who don't remember 2008.” --

icepat: “If you rolled back every bitcoin transaction ever made you would end up with people in debt because the transaction fees were paid. This makes bitcoin into a scam. The miners in total are guaranteed to win, everyone else in total is guaranteed to lose. Some people haven't realized their loss but it's there. It is an ingenious scam because it's not the scammers who hype it up, no, it's the marks because the only way they can get ahead if they hype it up. The miners get their cut no matter what.”

“This is not the same for say, gold, because gold can be made into, say, electronics which now can be sold for more than the sum of the cost of the components. Stocks pay dividends etc.”

“Since so fundamentally it's a scam, is it a wonder other scams are built on top?”


Strongly agree with the point made about the miners being criminally overlooked in all of this. If crypto and Bitcoin are camouflaged pyramid schemes, the people at the top of the pyramid- even above the exchanges and the hucksters and the VCs, are the small handful big miners who have been doing it even before BTC was a few dollars each.

There's a huge misdirection in the very thin narrative about minors, which is that "everyone knows" they've always had to sell the entirety of their coin bases to break even. This is completely taking the miners at their word when there is absolutely no reason to believe any of it.

The reason the price is stabilized every time it should fall is because the miners, and the OG miners alone, have the ability to collectively throttle back on selling their newly mined coins to the market and can do so almost indefinitely because of the massive profits they realized on early gains held long term. This is the true source of number go up and I'm surprised how little attention it's been given, probably because miners are notoriously publicity shy. You'll notice they're never talked about it any of these articles.


> Interesting: he says that the famous 1202 error may sometimes crash the spacecraft and sometimes land successful in some other cases .. The Apollo 11 landing was not a tragedy be sheer luck.

I recall reading somewhere that the 1202 error was caused by someone switching on the rendezvous radar, in the event of a quick take-off. This caused the computer to continuously seek for a radar lock on the orbiting craft that was not going to occur. Nothing like this happened in the simulator.


“Planned Parenthood Federation of America honored the Pearl of Africa, a unique documentary from the inside of the Ugandan LGBT movement.”

https://archive.is/BNBWP


That has nothing to do with this article, though.


> That has nothing to do with this article, though.

"Is there any lgbtq agenda in Africa to begin with?"


“New law could allow GCHQ to monitor UK internet logs in real-time to tackle fraud”

;)


> Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors ..

Because the innovators still cannot deign a “computer” that can't be compromised by opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.


> I'm pretty sure every last bit of what we hear about it is propaganda. Empire doesn't happen by chance.

We're going to fight to the last Ukrainian /s


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