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Ah, but he did. See [The Great Dictator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator) for example. For us to function we need people like Chaplin to show us (in a way or another) what's going on in the world.

I'm new to blockchains so I'm sorry if this is stupid, maybe somebody can explain to me.

Why do everybody needs to keep everything? The chain will be much smaller with just the id and the hash of the block. The payloads could be kept only by the interested parties and could be validated when needed with the chain.

*lisp

They test you if you can do the work, you test them if they can pay. A company should be more financially stable than you, so they should pay for the recruiting process.

If they pay, it's their work. But if they give you real work to do for free, you probably don't want to work for them, as it's a good chance they'll take advantage of you again at some point.

Get really good at what you do and you'll find good work on your area or remotely.

For certain monkeys, those "few monkeys" are family. Just like your family. You wouldn't want your family stabbed to advance a species you couldn't care less about.

Ambiguous user interface is not the user's fault.

If I up vote when I agree with a post, then I down vote when I disagree. We should have an "off topic" flag for off topic posts and hide the off topic posts, not unpopular ones.

Regulated and privatized are not mutually exclusive, some activity can be privatized and regulated in the same time.

Edit: to elaborate a little, one shows the ownership form and the other how free of constrains is that activity on the market.

Theoretically we can make building and using them illegal, but there's no way to prevent building and using these machines.

I am a Chrome user, I totally agree that the browser should fill the password for me and not accept third party cookies. And yet I don't want the fields in my intranet app to be filled with garbage.

I agree completely with you and I don't think it contradicts what I said, more it completes it.

It looks like a viral infection, yes, that's how it spreads: an evil payload wrapped in good ideas. It's a tool to control people even if it's not used everywhere all the time, even if sometimes it's used for good. And finally, yes, the believers have no intention to deceive; they are the ones deceived and since most of them are essentially good people they naturally want to spread the "truth" by telling others about it.

You found some similarities between some groups of people. This just shows that some beings like to get together, based sometimes on common interests. Also bananas share 50% of its DNA with humans. So?

What's more relevant is the differences. Funclubs' purpose is fun, I presume. Programming is serving humanity, I have no doubt. Political parties are in a way like football, a gentlemen game played by thieves. Companies are far from meaninglessness, they serve clear organizational and legal and taxes etc purposes.

Religions (edit: I'm familiar with) are built on deception to control people, they are not like fanclubs, programming, companies.

He's not on-point at all. You can find amazing content not touched by ads all over the internet.

Making money is hard but his way of doing it is nothing to admire.

I don't know why you think I need to do something. Perhaps you need to realize that annoying your readers is not the best way to approach the issue.

Leaving aside the assumption that somebody has to pay just because you did something, selling my visual comfort for how much? a tenth of a cent? shows me how much you value your readers.

People do awful things to each others from the beginning of time, yes. Should we embrace it? No, we should learn to behave better.

Ads are bad. I'm not shopping not stop. I just want to read my article or whatever I am doing at that moment.

When I want to buy something I go to a shop and being there I still don't want ads. I want accurate specs, relevant statistics, maybe pictures and honest reviews. Sometimes I could use a guide, when it's not my domain.

I never stopped in the middle of something to say "I'd so watch an ad right now".

> The one of the product of that excellent education system was Milosevic as well.

Not the best phrasing, one could deduct from it that the education system was broken.

Of course bad people will benefit from education as well as good people, but this is not a reason to stop educating people.

I guess it is, but it feels more like defense so I'm ok with it.

He was talking about intelligent species.

> I will put up messages begging people to install adblockers if I detect that they aren't using one.

Best idea today, thanks! I pirate it.

This proves that bad ideas exist, not that the idea is the most important or difficult part.