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Yeah, because the 'sell support/hosting' model has been such a failure /s You don't have to be in academia to afford to write F/OSS nor is it financially draining to do so.

All the barrier islands are beautiful - Cumberland, SSI, Jekyll, Tybee and they aren't too busy (well, except Saint Simons during the GA/FL weekend which is a blast in and of itself).

That's the dumbest way to enforce IP law. Just take the companies to court in the US if they sell in the US or international court if selling to other countries where Chinese companies compete with American manuf. - tariffs just aren't a good way to do this as it royally fucks American consumers

China also gives us goods far below what we could produce them for which lowers our cost of living. Complaining about China stealing $300b (I'll use your number because it doesn't really matter) in IP is like complaining about high school kids stealing Adobe CC - it's a theoretical loss, they weren't going to be a customer regardless. Tariffs don't even do anything to prevent IP theft

>There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

I thought this was no longer the case

Google did face backlash and it wasn't to this level because its use wasn't nearly as ubiquitous

The problem is that areas that are affordable enough to create more, cheap housing are not near the services that the homeless need and use. I'm in Denver and housing in the city is somewhat pricey but there is tons of land just outside the city that could be developed but you'd be hard pressed to claim that would help homelessness because all the services they use and people they accost are downtown

We just love weed? For me putting a little tincture in my coffee in the morning is the perfect combo. The weed takes the slight edge off my massive mug of coffee so I get the energy but not the cracked out feeling that lots of caffeine can give you. Plus, answering emails is boring as fuck, I'd rather have a little buzz when I do it. Also, some of my best code was written while high at midnight the night before a deadline.

> Who uses opiates who isn't addicted to them? Regularly? likely no one but there are a ton of poeple who use recreationally that aren't addicted.

To add a counterpoint - there isn't anything on the line in grad school when sharing stories of drug use... completely different ballgame in the professional world. I've only had one coworker where we mutually admitted to smoking weed and that was because we were talking about music and each threw out a couple names that, well, I don't think there are too many sober people listening to it and we both happened to live in Colorado. In my 6 years that's one person I've told about a drug that is legal where we live - god forbit I tell them about my LSD, coke, nitrous, MDMA, etc usage as benign and recreational as it is. I'd open up about pretty much anything else before that - family issues/etc aren't going to get me fired for discussing

Addy / Vyvanse seem to be the doctor's choice (as well as college kids') so it is generally just more available and seen as safer than straight street speed. Similarly, coke is also much cheaper / readily available in the US compared to Europe. I don't / have never opened up to coworkers about drug use/abuse but among my high earning friends, I'd say its a small group that uses it frequently and a large group that uses stimulants recreationally or when there is a big deadline coming up. I fall into that second category - if I have a ton of work and access to addy I'm going to be using it (I can't ever concentrate on work on coke - tons of energy and concentration, just no interest in doing work). However, if we're talking weed it's well over half of my friends that use it daily usually in the morning while answering emails / prior to work and immediately after / while working late. Granted, those same friends that smoke daily have been doing so since college

If it is any consolation, this is neither the norm nor legal in the US and at least one of the companies in question claims they give 2 x 30 minute breaks per 8hr shift

Laws with proportionate fines and regular inspections / reporting. But unions are really the best way

I think his point is making a big assumption that replies are bucking - dressing more traditionally formal != pride in appearance. In fact, as the sibling comment to yours points out - that's not the case at all. Being individualistic, whether that's in a stylish suit or an outfit from /r/streetwear, shows pride in one's appearance. I see a man in a printed tshirt and a man in a boring, unexciting button down equally as far as "pride in appearance" goes

Because home control / voice control is already established (Google Homoe, Alexa, etc). Why would I want a single voice controller when I can leverage the mesh of devices I already have around my home?

Luckily that's no longer an issue now that interest has faded and the mempool has cleared. Also, reducing on-chain transactions (and thus keeping the mempool clear, on-chain fees low, and verification times low) is pretty much the main use case of Lightening Network. The massive rise in fees and tx congestion was caused by the massive interest in BTC at the end of 2017. Something tells me if you are doing B2B in a shady jurisdiction, the companies you are doing work with would be more than willing to jump through hoops to deal exclusively in BTC

Also, the move in in-car systems has been to essentially mirror the phone whether through CarPlay or Android Auto. I don't see how legacy navigation systems can even come close to competing in this space

Also, how are we defining value? Bitcoin certainly brings secure transactions to the table which has its own value (just ask the likes of Western Union, Paypal, etc...)

With LN there are less transactions on-chain which reduces fees. Also, finally the temper-tantrum throwing core-supporters are quickly realizing that a block size increase is absolutely necessary going forward

This is the year, I just know it

100% of that goes to the state you purchase/register in, correct? There is currently no federal EV tax that would offset federal fuel taxes that help fund interstate highways, correct?

and even then, crypto could be seen as a better store of value than the traditional market so even a bear market might not negatively effect the crypto space or at least not to the same degree as stocks

1) Because they're fun and I was bored 2) Most of my pill days were when I was in high school. I haven't sought out pills since but have been prescribed them when I've had surgery 3) It was just recreational (a hydro or oxy here or there) so the cost was low ~$1/mg for oxy. Obviously if you're addicted then $30+/day is crazy, but once in a blue moon it's no different than going to the movies or grabbing a cheap dinner 4) My friends/neighbors who sold drugs or from the good ole medicine cabinet 5) I'm not really a big fan of the feeling.

That poll has nothing to do with support for S2X though (or more generally, doubling the block size irrespective of the particular implementation)... rather just which chain would get the name 'bitcoin'

Which to me is just stupid - like taking 5 min to increase the blocksize is going to take away significant development effort from more novel solutions. Meanwhile, tx fees are stupidly high and bitcoin can't be used as a currency for small-ish transactions.

>Several polls were done and it was made clear that segwit2x had no support from the community.

That has to be the most laughable part of the article. "Hey guys, I posted this poll on a pro-core forum and what do you know, not a single person supported S2X...". It's like the polls posted in /r/btc about Bitcoin Cash - everyone in the bitcoin world lives in their own bubble and use those around them to validate their opinions.

Yeah my experience was mostly limited to the national circuit and GA where the judges were typically WestGA, Emory, or UGA debaters (or debate coaches) trying to make extra money on weekends when they didn't have a college tournament

It also narrows the number of use cases you have to account for which gives google time to flesh out the platform one use case at a time - something the consumer market simply wouldn't tolerate

None? You seemed to have touched mostly on consuming CSV and safe ways to do that and suggested XLSX - I'm just adding that digesting CSV safely isn't our biggest issue, it's getting vendors to use something other than CSV and unfortunately that is typically out of most people's control.

I thought MARTA was shit until I went somewhere other than NY / Chicago / SF. Denver's light rail blows