ThePowerOfDirge

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-industrialisation of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrialisation_of_India

Cough up the dough, or away your files will go.

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.

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.

It destroyed Bell Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/realestate/severance-lumo...

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/feb/19/ask-politifac...

Why are they trying to destroy it? Are they saying that they do not want more DEI, JD Vance-type people, that one is enough?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk at 21:10

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 has no managers.

>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

Seems like BITCOIN has crashed to very low values recently as well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harrypotterobamasonic10...

A super-inefficient personalized poison.

Seems like you have a very firm grasp of what can and cannot be done with a person's DNA.

The artist always has the option to put the entire album into 1 track.

You missspelled Baidu and CCP there.

>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 air.

This man is a moron.

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 pay their taxes a lot or?

These "anecdotes" make my blood boil.

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

Now we're talking.

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

Time to ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again!

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.

Identity theft and corruption help ransomware much more than cryptocurrency ever will.

I am technically person.

False, the difficulty bomb will kill off eth1.

Decentralized derivatives trading https://injectiveprotocol.com/

So many armchair scientists in this thread taking the hygiene hypothesis as gospel here.

How, without every government banning it, do you see bitcoin's value going to zero?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-feds-balance-sheet-the-...