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backtoyoujim··on Dead Startup Toys
needs a kozmo scooter w/matching bag
backtoyoujim··on Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo
wow that is a lot of the word "surprising"
backtoyoujim··on University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements
Seems that the first seven paragraphs were ideologically fodder for the last three paragraphs.
backtoyoujim··on Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
And car registration.

And with the rise of casual to state enforced surveillance in public and private spaces I can imagine near absolute resource tracking "cradle to cradle" via RFID, GPS, wi-fi, surveillance video, and block chain.

backtoyoujim··on Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg
So facebook is going to keep a file on you. And instead of letting you edit it for free they are going to charge some users a fee to update the file for facebook.

All I can think is that J Edgar Hoover must would feel so ripped off right now.

backtoyoujim··on Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
how does this affect my micro-dosing schedule ?
backtoyoujim··on There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble
we all gamble that have excess money to do so.

there is a huger "we all" that don't.

backtoyoujim··on $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
Not meaningless for taxes
backtoyoujim··on $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
not with converting it to fiat.

and we both know I did not mean _that_ Fiat.

backtoyoujim··on $7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved
you can buy a telsa with btc
backtoyoujim··on Bernie Madoff has died
I disagree.

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“Bernie really was a successful businessman with quite original insights into the market, and he’s continued applying his business instincts in prison,” Fishman said. “At one point, he cornered the hot chocolate market. He bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold it for a profit in the prison yard. He monopolized hot chocolate! He made it so that, if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-series-casts-bernie-ma...

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Bernie wasn't trapped with them. They were trapped with Bernie.

backtoyoujim··on Is Russia going to war with Ukraine and other questions
> Russia has made the first annexation in Europe

What an interesting choice of regions to single out.

backtoyoujim··on How People Get Rich Now
Also about about money managers: in 1982 pensions existed. Now there is only the 401k. Now money managers get to invest other people's pensions.

If I was a money manager for a 401k I would prolly start investing other people's money into money management and it accouterment.

backtoyoujim··on The Ponzi Career
I can foresee a nation-state utilizing these as a citizen credit score, and utilizing them to control behavior.
backtoyoujim··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
That the labor conditions being just as one would imagine for a near-trillionaire's empire creeping on the distressed poverty of a white supremacist soul devouring harvester.

Why ... what did you think that the subject was, dear ?

backtoyoujim··on Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died
"I gotta get me a blue LED or something because that blue light ... is bad ass."

https://www.theunticket.com/audio/drops/mattmcconbluelight.m...

backtoyoujim··on PayPal launches crypto checkout service
I do not want to pay federal taxes on every purchase I make.

Paypal's service won't change that.

backtoyoujim··on Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (1981)
This comment is basically, "How dare they ?"
backtoyoujim··on Netflix to start testing warnings for people borrowing login info
What exactly is Netflix pissed about ?

Their stock is over $500 a share.

In 2020 Netflix has positive cashflow of $1.9 billion.

What are they pissed about ?

backtoyoujim··on Fuckin' user interface design, I swear
The neverending reality of the Edigerian nipple.
backtoyoujim··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
Mining gold is also a very destructive and poisonous business that is incredibly bad for the planet. So is copper mining. So is manufacturing computers.

Thank god computers and digital networks are so important that we recognize the importance to keep mining these limited resources to build and sell more computers and digital networks and places to store Office yearly subscription receipt pdfs.

That said, something like 40% of all bitcoin are in just like 1000 wallets.

If bitcoin were to suddenly fossilize into the world's currency the distribution of wealth would be even more inequitable and concentrated than now with national fiats.

backtoyoujim··on Why are fewer young adults having casual sex?
Great. Now all I can think about is the Matrix human pods playing the pornhub theme as they close.
backtoyoujim··on Coinbase S-1
The pro version of coinbase is a tool to exchange crypto directly with other people with smaller fees.

I thought that coinbase is more of a store that buys a stock of crypto then resells it with huge fee mark up.

backtoyoujim··on Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
It was a Stephen Heymann, Scott Garland, and Carmen Ortiz universe.
backtoyoujim··on IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager
Happy Holidays to you.
backtoyoujim··on IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager
does Enlightenment still exist ?
backtoyoujim··on SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources
practical for whom ?
backtoyoujim··on Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System
I wonder if these gravitational jetstreams explain the weird acceleration that was written about ʻOumuamua's path.
backtoyoujim··on WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
I'm OK with the "Move Fast & Break Shit" crowd staying far from my medical history thankyouverymuch.
backtoyoujim··on Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
How can that kind of inequality look like justice to anyone other than someone very economically privileged ?
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