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It’s possible to interact with dapps without going through a centralized server, for certain types of client hardware. Definitely not for mobile devices.

I don’t see a single incorrect statement in that post.

“ this is all pie in the sky nonsense”

Nah, only the Neuralink part.

Invading and annexing the territory of another country is a it more than “dick waving.”

This is excellent, it’s great you had this experience. Mine was the opposite: we hired a replacement for my former boss, and at our first 1:1, I told her I was desperately burned out and unable to really accomplish much. She said, you can take vacation after we accomplish some big team goals.

That article only says Sharon (who was only a part of the government) opposed occupation, and even then was quiet about it. Also the article is completely unsourced.

US citizen here, and you are correct. The farther left you go, the more anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic sentiment you’ll find.

Pardon my ignorance and/or naïveté, but are these real examples?

It’s an estimate based on fairly thorough research, which includes attaching collar cameras to outdoor cats. The carnage they wreak is impressive.

Cats belong indoors, period.

Clearly you’ve rejected Capitalism because you don’t properly capitalize anything.

Basically, this is “Juicero: The Keyboard.”

People also forget that it wasn’t a Muslim ban. The world’s largest Muslim country was not included in it.

If you could pump 200 tons of propellant in ten seconds, sure.

There’s certainly a kernel of truth to what you’re saying, but as you point out, this situation adds lying, malfeasance, and dereliction of duty to the mix.

But this company would disrupt! Things like zoning laws aren’t cool, so we’ll move fast and break them!

I agree that #MeToo has gone too far and in fact has been weaponized. One example from my own recent experience:

I was a manager of a software development and innovation team at a well-known nonprofit research institute. I hired a fairly junior developer who happened to be female. As it turns out, she took the job just as a stepping stone to another, arguably more prestigious team in my institute. She basically punted on her responsibilities, ignored specific requests and tasks, lied constantly about her progress, demanded that we pay for her art education out of our project budget, and generally did little but get coffee and chat with people on the team she wanted to jump to. Meanwhile I frequently had to clean up her messes and fix what little code she managed to write, at significant personal cost.

After doing all the things a supportive manager should - praising her publicly, coming up with plans to improve performance, being quite encouraging and supportive in our 1-on-1s, and giving her specific warnings about her behavior and performance - it finally came time to fire her. She went literally crying to my boss, who then told me we couldn’t fire her, because we might get sued for sexism, or something. Despite the fact that I treated her with utmost respect and superhuman patience. But since my workplace was raging with #MeToo consciousness (as evidenced on our Slack channels daily, and elsewhere), she got away with it and in fact got exactly what she wanted all along.

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time