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Mainly those that believe in concepts such as 'borders' and 'sovereignty'
You might personally feel that those residents welcomed foreign troops with open arms, but it's not a narrative that Russian forces crossed Ukraine's border to annex territory that didn't belong to it.
Every declaration you made in this sentence is incorrect.
Commentary from someone who only visits Texas in the summer is bound to be one-dimensional.
> To me this spells the end of Oracle's supremacy in anything other than selling smaller and smaller volumes of mainframes.
True because average regional temperature has always been a solid predictor of company success, which is why companies like 3M, Cirrus Logic, Dell, Indeed, National Instruments, and Silicon Labs all collapsed after establishing their headquarters in Austin due to talented employees leaving en masse for the beauty of other regions /s
This is a fantasy put forth by Bitcoin enthusiasts that's not supported by the facts. The average cost of a bitcoin transaction is currently ~$7.5USD[1]; nobody in the unbanked world is spending the cost of 1-2 Nokias to make day-to-day purchases.
> Another example is how it is providing a way for people in hyper-inflationary economies like Venezuela to store value.
This isn't true. Zelle's ability to store actual USD make it the preferred means for storing digital currency safely in Venezuela right now[2]:
"Ecoanalítica, a local consulting firm, estimates that 17% of transactions at retail establishments in Caracas go through [Zelle] and that other Venezuelan cities are seeing similar usage levels. The actual figure may be larger, considering the data do not include smaller shops."
Accusing others of being ill informed or dishonest while yourself pushing forth maximalist narratives that aren't grounded in reality is a bit rich.
[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f.... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/features/2020-11-11/zelle...
I too would like to erode confidence in our public servants.
Because Bitcoin wasn't originally designed for speculating on cryptocurrencies.
What do you mean it's not clever? Sure, they applied a known weakness of non-constant data rate encoded messages to drone monitoring, but that's never been done before. What have you done that's so impressive that gives you the confidence to scoff at the accomplishment of the talented engineers and developers who created something brand new?
You implicitly implied him.
> There are many different professions that are legal in their country of operation that the US will redirect international flights to US controlled locations to arrest you.
Which ones? Please provide sources of researchers who have had their flights redirected with the sole purpose of arresting the individuals.
> It seems like you can't accept that the US is a threat to some people's and nations sovereignty.
It seems like you struggle with providing facts and evidence as opposed to conjecture and hypotheticals.
> The US government is why Snowden is in Russia, not Snowden
The US government is not why Snowden is in Russia, Snowden is why Snowden is in Russia. He went to Russia intentionally. He wasn't kidnapped, he chose Russia as a destination specifically due to their reluctance to cooperate with the US.
> He didn't go to Russia. His flight was forced to land there...
That's not what happened, please reread his flight history because the facts are well known at this point. He told his superiors at the NSA that he was headed to the mainland USA for medical treatment, but instead flew direct to Hong Kong where he lived for over a month. 30+ days after arriving in HK he fled to Russia, with the intent of fleeing to Cuba the next day.
> ...when the US revoked his passport mid-flight.
His flight wasn't forced to land mid-flight because Snowden never even boarded the plane that day. His passport was revoked before the Cuba trip, leaving him stranded in the Russian airport.
If you're going to shill for someone who is unwilling to come back to the US to be held accountable (rightly or wrongly) for his actions, please be factually correct about it.
But please, don't let my clarification get in the way of your whataboutism.
You got downvotes for being wrong.
> But their pricing is on par with intel's offerings, so why should I buy the AMD product
This generation AMD is killing the price/performance ratio. Starting off a long winded argument with a factual inaccuracy isn't the best way to get the audience on your side.
> None of offerings, per core, really beat my 2011 2500k i5
Funny, I replaced my 2011 2500k i5 with an R5 1600x and the performance difference is incredible (having 3200Mhz DDR4 helps as well).
You are guilty of the same bias that you're accusing the downvoters of.
This is fear mongering to the extreme. Intel has the exact same type of system embedded in their processors called Intel Management Engine. You can't escape this problem by buying Intel.
I notice you provided a lot of sources, but none for the claim "a likely backdoored system". Your post reads like something a bad Intel astroturfing shill would say.
Genocidal doesn't necessarily mean he's committed genocide; it means that he's prone to (and to some extent, fascinated by) mass acts of killing. The tweets about promising fire and fury on an entire nation of people (North Korea), telling Fox that we need to kill the terrorist families as well, etc. He gets off feeling like he's the most powerful man in the world.
He's a strongman, whose solutions often involve labeling entire categories of people as bad/evil (Muslims, Mexicans, the media). If you haven't noticed this you're either not paying attention or willfully ignorant.
Still waiting on ~any~ article to back up your assertion from a respected institution.
I still wanted to be close to people while I was depressed - I just felt useless and unable to do much else. On the SSRI I lost the desire to be affectionate, both around others and when I was by myself. It took around 6-9 months after I came off the SSRI for me to feel like I returned back to a normal state.
"It's often said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but that figure of speech doesn't capture how complex the disease is. Research suggests that depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals. Rather, there are many possible causes of depression, including faulty mood regulation by the brain, genetic vulnerability, stressful life events, medications, and medical problems. It's believed that several of these forces interact to bring on depression."
Enjoy your continued confusion as to why your 'advice' is being downvoted.
[1] - https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-dep...
I'm gonna have to disagree pretty strongly with that assertion without any supporting evidence. In fact, I would argue that rarely is depression caused by a clear reason which has a direct path to resolution. This is the exact perspective that makes those going through depression feel like others are trivializing what they're going through.
That's probably why you're getting downvoted, since it's #1 on your list.
If you would have recognized his opening paragraph as hyperbole, you would have gone on to read a comprehensive opinion from a former Google HR employee on the ramifications of publishing such a memo. He makes very good points that are worth consideration, or at least reading for the detailed insight into why Google's hand was played and forced to fire him.
I would and do, because that's the reality of things. You're discounting the fact that if my bank has a SQL-injection exploit used against it and my account is drained, the federal government will reimburse me up to $250,000.
That type of peace of mind does not come with Ethereum; in fact it's billed as a feature.
Yes, I'm sure people are turning away in droves from the most competitive AMD processor in a decade because they won't open source their version of ME.
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This comment doesn't seem to jive the spirit of Hacker News.
If the poster you're replying to has a valid counter-argument you can expect him to provide it; there's no need to...threaten them to reply? Machismo is one of the least beneficial things you could contribute to this site.
I'd prefer to give YouTube the benefit of the doubt as they introduce a brand new service. They're an American company, it makes perfect sense for them to start with US customers.